Iran rejects new IAEA report

Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Hassan Rowhani on Wednesday criticized the new report of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as containing "errors and shortcomings."

"The agency has plunged into irrelevant questions. After we read the report, we found that it had touched only minor points and nothing important," he said.

IAEA said in a report on Tuesday that inspectors had found in Iran more contamination by possibly weapon-graded enriched uranium.

"The only prominent issue is the 36 percent contamination by U-235, but they came into Iran on contaminated import equipment," Rowhani explained.

The IAEA report pointed out that Iran is continuing centrifuge production. As to this, Rowhani said production of centrifuge equipment in some private sectors would continue because of some suspended issues concerning compensation.

"The IAEA has announced that the file on Iran's nuclear activities will be closed after resolving the two key issues of uranium contamination and P2 centrifuge," he said.

"The Islamic Republic has been fully committed to the agreements with the IAEA," he said, stressing that IAEA chief ElBaradei said no evidence has been found to prove Iran's nuclear activity related to military program so far.

Iran declared a suspension of its uranium enrichment in November 2003 and signed the Additional Protocol of Non-Proliferation Treaty in December of the same year.

The Islamic Republic submitted an allegedly full coverage reporton its nuclear activities, anxiously expecting a closure of the inspection on its nuclear sites at the IAEA meeting on June 14.