PART I Mottaki: Iran not to give up demands under any sanction, threat <http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/menu-234/key-4414/> United Nations, New York, March 25, IRNA <http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/menu-234/key-5808/> Iran- <http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/menu-234/key-24438/> UNSC- <http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/menu-234/key-38879/> Mottaki Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that no sanction or threat can make the Iranian nation retreat from its legal and legitimate demands. "The world must know - and it does - that even the harshest political and economic sanctions or other threats are far too weak to coerce the Iranian nation to retreat from their legal and legitimate demands," said Mottaki in an address to the UN Security Council following issuance of a second anti-Iran resolution by the Council. The full text of the Minister's statement is as follows: "Mr. President, "This is the fourth time in the last 12 months that in an unwarranted move, orchestrated by a few of its permanent members, the Security Council is being abused to take an unlawful, unnecessary and unjustifiable action against the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran which presents no threat to international peace and security and falls therefore outside the Council's Charter-based mandate. As we have stressed time and again, Iran's nuclear program is completely peaceful. We have expressed our readiness, taken unprecedented steps and offered several serious proposals to address and allay any possible concern in this regard. Indeed, there has been no doubt for us from the very beginning, nor should there be any for the Council, that all these schemes of the co-sponsors of the Resolution are for narrow national considerations, and aimed at depriving the Iranian people of their inalienable rights, rather than emanating from any so-called proliferation concerns. In order to give this scheme a semblance of international legitimacy, its initiators first manipulated the IAEA Board of Governor and- as they acknowledged themselves- "coerced" some of its members to vote against Iran in the Board, and then have taken advantage of their substantial economic and political power to pressure and manipulate the Security Council to adopt three unwarranted resolutions within 8 months. Undoubtedly, those resolutions cannot indicate universal acceptance, particularly when the heads of state of nearly two thirds of UN members, who belong to the Non-Aligned Movement and the OIC, supported Iran's positions as recently as September 2006 and expressed concern about policies pursued inside the Security Council. These resolutions do not even reflect the views of the Council's own 15 members, since most of them were not thoroughly informed about, let alone engaged in, the discussions held in secret meetings where only a few, among them non-members of the Council, decide for the whole Security Council. "Mr. President, "This is not the first time the Security Council is asking Iran to abandon its rights. When Saddam Hussein invaded Iran 27 years ago, this Council waited 7 days so that Iraq could occupy 30000 sq kilometers of Iranian territory. Then it unanimously adopted Security Council Resolution 479. That unanimously adopted resolution asked the two sides to stop the hostilities, without asking the aggressor to withdraw. That is, the Council -- then too -- effectively asked Iran to suspend the implementation of parts of its rights; at that time is its right to 30000 sq kilometers of its territory. As expected, the aggressor dutifully COMPLIED. But imagine what would have happened if Iran had COMPLIED. We would still be begging the Council's then sweetheart, President Saddam Hussein, to return our territory. We did not accept to suspend our right to our territory. We resisted 8 years of carnage and use of chemical weapons coupled with pressure from this Council, and sanctions from its permanent members. In the course of the war, the United States joined the United Kingdom, Germany, France and the Soviet Union along with other Western countries in providing Saddam with military hardware and intelligence and even the material for chemical and biological weapons. The Security Council was prevented for several years and in spite of mounting evidence and UN reports, to deal with the use of chemical weapons by Iraq against Iranian civilians and military personnel. I am confident that today, most of the permanent members of this Council, do not even want to remember that travesty of justice, the Charter and international law, let alone blame Iran for non-compliance with SCR 479. I am also confident that they do not want to remember that when the Iranian people nationalized their oil industry, they attempted to impose a resolution on this Council condemning Iran for threatening peace and security. But they cannot coerce the international public opinion to forget that and certainly the Iranian people will never forget it. Who among you does not know - and rest assured that the international public opinion does know - that two permanent members of this Council, with full and prior knowledge of Zionist regime intention to commit aggression against Lebanon, prevented for over a month any decision in this Council, the Rome Conference and other initiatives to put an end to that regime's atrocities? You vis-a-in the Council could not even adopt an appropriate position vis the bombardment of UN facilities in Lebanon which caused the death of your own representatives. The Security Council should be accountable not only for its unlawful actions and decisions, but indeed for its repeated failures to act against threats to international peace and security. "Mr. President, "As an organ of an international organization created by States, the Security Council is bound by law, and Member States have every right to insist that the Council keeps within the powers they have accorded to it under the Charter. The Security Council must exercise those powers consistently with the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations. Equally, the measures it takes must be consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the UN and with other international law. Members of the Security Council do not have the right to undermine Council's credibility. There is every reason to assert that consideration by the Security Council of the Iranian peaceful nuclear program has no legal basis as the referral of the case to the Security Council and then adoption of Resolutions fail to meet the minimum standards of legality. Iran's peaceful nuclear activities cannot be characterized as a threat to peace by any stretch of law, fact or logic. Rather, certain members of the Security Council decided to hijack the case from IAEA, as the principal specialized technical organ in charge of the issue, and politicize it. How can Iran's peaceful nuclear program be considered in the Security Council while Iran has carried out its obligations, and cooperated to the fullest extent possible, far more than it is obliged to in accordance with its treaty obligations, namely the NPT and the Safeguard Agreement? Isn't it simply because the IAEA could not find any diversion from lawful and peaceful purposes? How could one expect the IAEA to prove a negative fact? "Mr. President, "In order to achieve the politically motivated and unlawful goal of depriving Iran from its inalienable right to nuclear technology, attempts have been made to manufacture evidence. According to a recent report in an American newspaper, "most US intelligence shared with the UN nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran." The same news article also quotes a senior IAEA official as saying "since 2002, pretty much all the intelligence that's come to us has proved to be wrong." However, in order to enable the IAEA to reach this conclusion, Iran had to implement transparency measures outside all IAEA safeguards and protocols and allow the IAEA inspectors over 20 visit to its sensitive military sites which had no connection whatsoever to its nuclear program. Can any member of this Council accept to do likewise? Are permanent members of this Council even prepared to simply inform the international public of the number of centrifuges they own? In fact, over the last four years, the IAEA has conducted more than 2100 person-days of scrutiny of all Iranian nuclear facilities. All reports by the IAEA since November 2003 have been indicative of the peaceful nature of Iranian nuclear program. The Agency confirmed in 2003, and maintained since then that "to date, there is no evidence that the previously undeclared nuclear material and activities were related to a nuclear weapons program." On several occasions, the Agency concluded that "all the declared nuclear material in Iran has been accounted for, and therefore such material is not diverted to prohibited activities." As recently as February 2007, the IAEA Director General stated in his report that " pursuant to its NPT Safeguards Agreement, Iran has been providing the Agency with access to declared nuclear material and facilities, and has provided the required nuclear material accountancy reports in connection with such material and facilities." The same report also indicates "the Agency is able to verify the non-diversion of declared nuclear material in Iran." He also indicated to the Board of Governors on March 5, 2007 that the Agency has seen no "industrial capacity to produce weapons-usable nuclear material, which is an important consideration in assessing the risk." 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