After a meeting between the PGCC’s foreign ministers and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in Chevening, England, on Monday, the participants issued a joint statement, in which they voiced “grave concern” about Iran’s regional activities and, what they called, “nuclear escalation” by the country.
Khatibzadeh in response called the claims that were made through the statement “baseless” and “hackneyed”.
He denounced the allegations as a measure taken by certain circles “which are worried about creation of an atmosphere of interaction and cooperation among the regional countries”.
The Islamic Republic, he said, has always played a “responsible role” in boosting peace and stability in the region.
“Based on its strategic standpoint and principled policy, the Islamic Republic’s government considers the means of resolution of the regional problems to lie in interaction and cooperation, and therefore welcomes whatever constructive initiative in this area,” Khatibzadeh said.
He, meanwhile, denounced Western countries for fanning the flames of tension and humanitarian crises in the region by flooding modern weaponry to some regional countries.
Commenting on the claim made about the “nuclear escalation”, Khatibzadeh said contrary to the unfounded allegations, Iran has invariably remained committed to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement,” which stipulates enhanced access to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites and snap inspections by the United Nations nuclear agency.
Earlier this month, Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi said that Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog continue cooperation and interactions within the framework of the safeguards agreements.
Kamalvandi said that the country allowed replacement of damaged cameras at TESA Complex in Karaj after being assured of meeting three preconditions by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
He named the three conditions as “judicial-security investigations into the dimensions of sabotage, condemnation of these sabotage acts by the IAEA and technical-security investigation of new cameras by Iran before installation".
"Iran's voluntary act to issue a license to replace these cameras is not in the form of a new agreement that was made after obtaining these three preconditions, and today the process of technical-security inspections of cameras by Iran is scheduled to begin."
"The AEOI, as a specialized and technical institution, has continuous interactions with the IAEA within the framework of safeguards, and these interactions should not take a political form,” Kamalvandi said.
"In the media space and with the aim of psychological operations, the western and Israeli media are trying very hard to politicize Iran's interactions with the IAEA, and unfortunately there are tendencies in the IAEA in this regard," he added.
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