Iranian envoy reacts to US daily's fake report

Vienna, Nov 22, IRNA - Iran's representative to the UN nuclear watchdog reacted on Friday to a recent fake report appeared in The New York Times and said the paper was to mislead public opinion with wrong information.

"This has always been, unfortunately, the case that Western media used
wrong scientific and technical information to mislead public opinion
and politicize the issue of Iran's peaceful nuclear program," Iran's
Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Ali Asghar
Soltanieh told IRNA.

Soltanieh made the remark commenting on a report on The New York Times
which quoted a so-called expert as claiming that Tehran had stockpiled
an amount of UF6 enough to make atomic bomb.

"All international scientific circles know that it is impossible, even
for a country with a long history of enrichment activities, to
rearrange and use a low-enriched uranium to turn into high-enriched
overnight to produce nuclear weapons," the envoy argued.

He added that it was regretful that Western media presented wrong
information in the name of scientists or specialists.

"The world academic figures and specialists must protest to such
unprofessional comments," Soltanieh said.

He added that all Iranian nuclear sites are under the 24-hour
surveillance of the IAEA by the cameras installed over them and it is
impossible to make any change in the specialized performance of those
facilities.