In a speech at the UN General Assembly on October 1, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird claimed that a nuclear Iran posed the most significant threat to global peace and security.
In a statement read out at the UN General Assembly, the Iranian representative to the UN responded to the unfounded allegations made by the Canadian foreign minister.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, like other signatories to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is entitled to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and is resolute in restoring its inalienable rights in compliance with all its commitments stipulated in the NPT, the mission said.
It added that Iran's nuclear activities have always and solely been for peaceful purposes and added that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly confirmed the non-diversion of nuclear material in Iran.
The Iranian mission to the UN stressed the Islamic Republic’s full cooperation with the IAEA and said the country’s nuclear activities have been under the 24/7 camera surveillance by the IAEA while the nuclear sites are also being inspected constantly by the Agency’s inspectors.
All these documents prove that the allegations against Iran's nuclear program are all ‘unfounded’ and ‘politically-motivated’ and were leveled against Iran by those Western countries that are either nuclear-armed or supported by such countries, the mission said.
Criticizing the West’s silence toward Israel’s nuclear weapons, the Iranian mission said Israel, which possesses more than 200 nuclear warheads and refuses to join the NPT, is the only source of insecurity in the Middle East and beyond the region.
The mission said Israel must immediately and without any precondition join all treaties on weapons of mass destruction, in particular the NPT, and put all its nuclear facilities under the supervision of the IAEA.
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