The Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) on Sunday voted to ban international nuclear inspectors from having access to Iran’s military sites and scientists as part of any future deal with world powers over its nuclear program.
The bill was approved by 199 of the 213 Majlis deputies who were present.
The bill also stipulates that all international sanctions against the regime must be lifted as part of any nuclear agreement that is reached with the world powers.
The P5+1 states – Britain, China, France, Russia, the US and Germany – hope to strike a deal with the Iranian regime by June 30 that would curtail Tehran’s nuclear effort in exchange for sanctions relief.
The latest measure by the regime’s parliament come as the question of access for international inspectors has become one of the main sticking points between Tehran and six world powers as they try to overcome obstacles to a final nuclear agreement in days ahead of a deadline.
Western officials say inspections of military sites by UN watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and access to the scientists working on the Iranian regime’s nuclear program are critical to checking whether the regime is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.
On May 20, Khamenei who has the final say on most important policy issues, said: “We will not allow any alien inspection of our military sites. They say we must come and interview your scientists… I will not permit foreigners to come and sit down and talk to our scientists… Giving this permission is out of question. The only way to confront the brazen enemy is with firm determination and lack of submission.”
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on May 21 in this regard said: “Khamenei’s remarks and his regime’s conducts which coincide with the nuclear talks, reaffirm the fact that force and firmness are the only language the mullahs’ regime understands. After three decades of concealment and deception, adding six or nine months to the breakout time, does not comprise a solution. Only the stringent implementation of UN Security Council resolutions can definitely prevent the regime from gaining access to the nuclear bomb. Placating negotiations with this religious fascism will not secure the world from the threat of nuclear-armed mullahs but will further incite their danger to the peoples of Iran, region and the world by giving time to the terrorist mullahs.”
Mrs. Rajavi added: “The nuclear bomb guarantees the Iranian regime’s survival and is requisite to its hegemony over the region. This is why the people of Iran earnestly oppose this program and the Iranian Resistance calls for a democratic and non-nuclear Iran.”
