NCRI – France's defense minister said Sunday that evidence indicated that Iran regime was still pursuing a military nuclear program, and he urged Tehran's regime to prove otherwise by opening its nuclear installations to international scrutiny.
"We support calls that Iran demonstrates through total opening of its installations that Iran is not conducting nuclear program with military purposes and goals," French Defense Minister Herve Morin told reporters on Sunday on the sidelines of a security conference in Singapore.
Morin said that all the "information we have collected proves that they have not dropped the idea of getting on with their [military] program."
Morin cited Iranian regime's display of the Shihab-3 missile, and said it was obviously a ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. "You don't develop a ballistic missile to carry conventional warhead. It doesn't make operational sense," he added.
French Defense Minister said his government's data show that Iranian regime continues to "carry on with sensitive activities."
Morin said Iranian regime's ballistic missiles program raises suspicion about its nuclear program.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions on the regime in Iran for its refusal to halt enriching uranium, a process that can be used to make nuclear arms.
In Vienna, the much anticipated International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran’s nuclear program is out and it is damning. The UN nuclear watchdog indicated that Tehran was withholding information critical to determining the true nature of its nuclear program.
More importantly, the report stated that Tehran, in absolute defiance of the will of the international community embodied in three consecutive UN Security Council resolutions, has refused to suspend uranium enrichment.
The nine-page report, due to be discussed by the IAEA's board of governors at a June 2-6 meeting in Vienna, said that "Iran has not provided the Agency with all the information, access to documents and access to individuals necessary to support Iran's statements."
