International proposals to resolve nuclear crisis "humiliating" for Iran
Rafsanjani said the proposals were unacceptable and a day earlier, Parliament's National Security Council Secretary threatened that Iran would leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Teheran (AsiaNews) The "package" of international proposals submitted by five members of the Security Council plus Germany to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis is "humiliating". Further, it paves the way for the Islamic Republic to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran is raising its voice over the nuclear controversy surrounding it, perhaps hoping that concern about the conflict in Lebanon will persuade the international community not to aggravate another polemic.
In a matter of two days, yesterday and Thursday, two hard statements came from Iran. Yesterday, during Friday prayer in Teheran, Akbar Rafsanjani said the "5+1" (USA, Russia, China, France, Great Britain and Germany) "included in their offer something to humiliate Iran and to make their proposal practically unacceptable". He said: "They are demanding that first enrichment should be suspended and negotiations will start later." This "would mean submission by Iran", which anyhow had already announced it would give its official response on 22 August.
The "package" is a series of incentives in economic and nuclear spheres, but it is subject to Iran's suspension of the nuclear energy enrichment process, a process giving rise to suspicions that Teheran wants to equip itself with atomic weapons.
The tone of Parliament's National Security Council Secretary, Aladdin Broujerdi, was more threatening. On Thursday, he was quoted by ISNA agency as criticizing that the proposal submitted by the five Security Council members plus Germany. Broujerdi claimed that Iran's actions "in some areas is even more than what is expected from a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)." So if this "5+1" group take a "wrong decision", they would be laying the foundations for the exit of Iran from IAEA and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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