Iranian Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Mohammad Eslami, who has been in Moscow for talks on expanding Iran’s nuclear power program with Russian help, said in a TV interview on Sept. 26 that the U.S.-Israeli strikes in June did not destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. “The bombings did not destroy our nuclear infrastructure. We have a clear plan to continue our program. There will be no deviations from our peaceful plan for the development of nuclear technologies. Rest assured that we are moving forward without interruption,” he said, reported TASS.
Eslami also charged that the IAEA’s failure to denounce the U.S.-Israeli strikes amounts to complicity. “When our registered facilities under IAEA supervision come under military attack, and neither the IAEA, the Security Council, nor the Board of Governors condemns it, what does that mean? It means these institutions are aligned with the military attack—they are part of it,” he told Sputnik, in response to a question about future cooperation with the UN nuclear agency.
