Canada complicit in Israeli atrocities against Palestinians: Iran

TEHRAN – The members of the Iranian mission to the United Nations have criticized Canada for making false claims about Tehran’s nuclear program and said that Ottawa is a complicit in the atrocities that Israel is committing in the occupied territories.

The Iranian legation made the remarks in a statement read out during a meeting of the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) of the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in response to false allegations that a Canadian ambassador had recently made about Iran’s nuclear program.

The Iranian mission dismissed as misleading the Canadian ambassador’s claims that producing uranium enriched to a purity level of 20 percent is illegal and said that the measure is completely legal and is meant to provide fuel for the Tehran research reactor, which produces medical isotopes for treatment of more than one million patients who are suffering from cancer.

The Islamic Republic of Iran had requested the countries which produce 20 percent enriched uranium to provide fuel for the reactor, but unfortunately the request was rejected, therefore, Iran has been left with no option but to attain self-sufficiency in producing uranium enriched to a purity level of 20 percent to provide fuel for the reactor in question, the statement read.

It added that the activities of the enrichment facilities in Natanz and Qom have never been secret and they were established based on the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and these facilities are currently under the constant supervision of the agency.

Elsewhere in the statement, the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran also criticized Canada’s deadly silence on the Zionist regime’s clandestine nuclear program which is not under the supervision of the IAEA and poses a serious threat to world peace and regional and international security.

Iran also questioned Canada’s honesty about expressing concern over the proliferation of nuclear weapons and said that Canada is the main supplier of weapons to the Zionist regime and therefore is complicit in the crimes that this regime is committing in the occupied Palestinian territories and should be held accountable.

Israel accusing Iran to divert attention from its crimes
The members of the Iranian mission also issued another statement in the meeting in response to baseless allegations that Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor had recently made about Iran’s nuclear activities.

In the statement, the Iranian legation said that the Zionist regime is leveling unsubstantiated allegations against Iran to divert attention from the crimes it is committing.

The illegitimate Zionist regime which possesses hundreds of nuclear warheads and is pushing ahead with its clandestine nuclear program is a serious threat to world peace, the statement said.

The Iranian delegation also called on the international community to pressure this regime to totally abolish its nuclear weapons and to help make the Middle East a nuclear weapons-free zone.

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