Quotes by Manouchehr Mottaki

“The resolution is illegal and politically motivated.”

“It is a political declaration and it is unjust.”

“Referring the case to the Security Council would be a lose-lose game, and we would prefer that this game does not happen. We see a win-win situation, that is where the EU and international community have confidence and the Islamic Republic of Iran reaches its legitimate right.”

“As for a widening of the negotiations, we have a positive view but this should take place in agreement with other parties.”

“The Islamic Republic pays great cost to control and prevent transfer of narcotics to West.”

“We do not accept global nuclear apartheid and scientific apartheid.”

“If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isnt it useful for other countries? We do not accept global nuclear and scientific apartheid.”

“Russias plan is at a stage of serious consideration, and negotiations on it are ongoing. Agreement between Tehran and Moscow has already been reached on certain points of Russias proposals, in particular on increasing the number of participants in the project.”

“All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.”

“This resolution has no legal basis. All it does is simply remove the opportunity for voluntary cooperation between Iran and the agency.”

“Iran has stopped all voluntary measures that it undertook in the past two-and-a-half to three years. We have no commitment to the Additional Protocol any more.”

“Any possible action by the board of governors (of the IAEA) in informing the UN security council about Irans nuclear project in their February meeting, as I said before, will trigger the government to cut all its voluntary measures as per the law.”

“Any possible action by the board of governors (of the IAEA) in informing the U.N. security council about Irans nuclear project in their February meeting, as I said before, will trigger the government to cut all its voluntary measures as per the law.”

“If at the upcoming meeting of the IAEA heads a decision is reached on referring Irans nuclear file to the UN Security Council, the government of the Islamic Republic, in accordance with a parliamentary resolution, will be forced to end its voluntary cooperation with the IAEA.”

“Any possible action by the board of governors [of the IAEA] in informing the UN Security Council about Irans nuclear project in their February meeting, as I said before, will trigger the government to cut all its voluntary measures as per the law.”

“We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence.”

“We believe the time of threats is over. There is still time for all the parties to reach a compromise, and I hope they use that time.”

“Nobody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding in Europe of what our president mentioned.”

“I said we are ready for any new ideas to reach to some compromise on this issue. They are supporting some kind of nuclear apartheid which is not acceptable to us.”

“The time for using language of threats is over, its time for negotiation. We express our readiness for negotiations based on justice and a comprehensive compromise. We want to peacefully solve the problem.”