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Iran's parliament votes to revise ties with IAEA
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 27 - 12 - 2006

Iran's parliament voted Wednesday to urge the government to «revise» ties with the U.N. nuclear agency in a move seen as likely to reduce the country's cooperation with the international atomic
authority.
The vote came four days after the U.N. Security Council
decided to impose limited sanctions on Iran for its refusal
to cease enrichment of uranium, the Associated Press reported.
Members of Iran's ruling hierarchy had repeatedly urged the government to cut ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, if the Security Council imposes sanctions.
«The bill gives a free hand to the government to decide
on a range of reactions _ from leaving the Nuclear
Non-proliferation Treaty to remaining in the International
Atomic Energy Agency and negotiating,» speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said during the debate, which was broadcast live on state radio.
What steps Iran would take was not immediately clear, but the bill put the Vienna-based nuclear agency on notice that business would not be as usual.
The bill said that the government was «obliged to
accelerate the country's peaceful nuclear program and
revise its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy
Agency based on national interests.»
The government supported the bill. «This is a very
helpful proposal,» Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid Reza
Asefi told the assembly. «I ask legislators to vote for
it.»
Speaker Haddad Adel said that 161 of the 203 legislators in the assembly voted for the bill. Fifteen legislators voted against it, and another 15 abstained.
The Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog, approved the bill very quickly _ showing how seriously the ruling hierarchy regarded the move.
«I was informed that the Guardian Council also approved the bill, minutes after the parliament,» said deputy speaker Mohammad Reza Bahnoar.


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