Larijani warns IAEA over Iran's cooperation

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday warned the UN nuclear watchdog that the country could revise its cooperation with it, after the body expressed grave concern about Tehran's contested atomic drive.

Addressing parliament just after his election, Larijani expressed regret that in its latest report on the Iranian nuclear drive the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had "spoken in an ambiguous way."

"This was used by the media, as you have seen, in the last days. This attitude of the agency is regrettable," he said in the speech broadcast live on state radio.

"Parliament will not allow that such deceptions are made and if they continue along this path, the new parliament will intervene in the case and set a new line...