Ambassador
Ali Asghar Soltanieh,
Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is a nuclear physicist by training. He combines an expert's grasp of the subject with a nationalist's passion to assert Iran's right to conduct N-research. He discussed India's vote against Iran and their own stand-off with the United States which in turn is clouding the Indo-US nuclear agreement. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with
Seema Sirohi
in Vienna:
How did you react to India's vote to send Iran's dossier to the UN Security Council?
But half the NAM countries on the board followed India.
Interviewer's note
The Iran crisis has cast a shadow on the Indo-US nuclear agreement. What is your view?
Some ambassadors and IAEA officials ask for more transparency from Iran.
Why isn't the IAEA giving Iran a clean chit?
Does the media contact you often?
How is the IAEA dealing with Iran?
But Russia too asks why Iran must have a fuel cycle.
India too is worried about fuel supplies.
