VIENNA, March 2. /TASS/. The current developments in Iran are directly related to the IAEA's mandate, and Russia expects the agency's leadership to provide clear assessments of Israel's and the United States' actions, Russian Permanent Representative to the Vienna-based international organizations Mikhail Ulyanov said at a special session of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the situation around Iran.
TASS has summed up the diplomat’s key statements
Statements by the United States and Israel "leave not the slightest doubt that their sole objective is the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the complete destruction of its statehood."
The United States is viewing nuclear non-proliferation as an instrument for settling political scores: "The concerns declared over the past quarter century in the context of Iran’s nuclear program were merely a facade for pursuing this single objective. This demonstrates that non-proliferation is regarded in Washington exclusively as an instrument for settling political scores with states whose independent policies and sovereign choices they find unacceptable."
The ongoing developments in Iran have "a direct and immediate bearing" on the IAEA’s mandate and requite its immediate reaction.
