Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI)
Iran’s nuclear chief says the recent remarks by the head of the UN atomic agency about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities are void of technical and legal validity, while also chiming in with Zionist psychological operations against Tehran.
Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), made the comments in a televised interview on Tuesday, addressing remarks made by Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
“Mr. Grossi’s remarks lack technical and legal aspect,” the Iranian official said, describing the IAEA chief’s discourse as totally being the product of “the psychological and political operations that the Zionist regime [of Israel] has been performing” against the Islamic Republic.
He said by passing the remarks, Grossi had clearly shown “his [true] character,” and proven to be among those that have been waging psyops against Iran for long.
Eslami was referring to Grossi’s interview with i24NEWS, an Israeli TV channel, in which the latter had said the Israeli regime could not “destroy” Iran’s nuclear facilities with “a single surgical strike. "Disrupting them (the facilities) would require overwhelming and devastating force,” the IAEA chief had also said.
The Iranian nuclear chief said Grossi had issued the remarks, despite lacking all jurisdiction to comment on such issues. Eslami noted that the international law and precautions that concerned such matters essentially robbed the IAEA director general of any entitlement to intervene in affairs of such nature.
Grossi had also said, “Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon at this moment,” but claimed that “it has the material” to make one, echoing the Israeli regime’s and its Western allies’ unfounded allegations about, what the accusing sides have described as, Iran’s so-called “diversion” towards obtaining nuclear arms or its intention to develop one.
The campaign has, most recently, manifested itself in the form of the IAEA Board of Governors issuing yet another anti-Iranian resolution amid Western and Israeli pressure.
The campaign rages on, while the Islamic Republic is the most-vetted member of the IAEA, with the agency having found no evidence in support of the alleged “diversion.”
Tehran, itself, has also categorically ruled out the prospect of either pursuing, obtaining, or maintaining nuclear arms in line with moral and religious guidelines.
