Confidentiality of Iran-IAEA agreement, normal: Analyst
Press TV has interviewed Elham Kadkhodaei, a political commentator in Tehran, and Michael Lane, the founder of the American Institute for Foreign Policy in Washington, to discuss Iran’s demand from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to keep secret the confidential provisions of an agreement between the Islamic Republic and the agency.
Kadkhodaei maintains that the request by the US Congress members to be informed about all details of the agreement between Iran and the IAEA is an “excessive demand,” adding that the request is not based on any legal right that the Congress members enjoy.
Referring to recent remarks by US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, she says, “This is a standard procedure, this is a standard practice that the agreement between the IAEA and members of the agency be ‘secret and confidential.’”
The political expert thinks that if the IAEA wants to see the agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries – the US, the UK, France, Russia, China and Germany – hold successfully, the agency is expected to prove its ‘independence and trustworthiness.’
She also says Iran has legitimate concerns about the potential leaking of its nuclear information because the Islamic Republic witnessed such behavior by the IAEA in the past, which led to the assassination of Iranian scientists.
For his part, Lane believes that the IAEA is aware that it has a confidential agreement with the government of Iran, and the agency also understands that its credibility is on the line and if it starts openly breaching confidential documents, then Iran can reconsider its stance.
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