Iran dismisses UNSC threat over nuke plans
AFP, Tehran
Iran has dismissed as "propaganda" the threat of being hauled before the United Nations Security Council, insisting it has every right to resume sensitive nuclear activities, state media said Wednesday. "There is no legal basis for sending Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council, and this is nothing but media propaganda," Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, a vice president and head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, was quoted as saying. Frustrated by the pace of negotiations with Britian, France and Germany, Iran has said it will back away from a November 2004 deal in which it agreed to freeze uranium enrichment activities. The agreement kicked off talks in which the EU are offering a package of incentives in return for "objective guarantees" that Tehran will not develop weapons.
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