Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi said yesterday that
Tehran's response to a six-nation nuclear package should be considered with good
intention and free of US adventurism, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran's response to the package of incentives is rational, reasonable and
well-documented, Shahroudi told a meeting of senior judiciary officials.
"If it is considered with good intention, we may expect positive steps
towards solving Iran's nuclear issue," he was quoted as saying.
The package, agreed on by the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain
and Germany, includes both incentives aimed at persuading Iran to suspend
uranium enrichment and possible sanctions if Iran does not comply.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator ALi Larijani delivered Teheran's written
response to the incentives package on Aug. 22 and urged the six nations to get
back to negotiations, saying Iran was ready to start "serious talks" over its
nuclear program.
Shahroudi expressed hope that Iran's response would be studied "with no heed
to US adventurism and intervention", adding "no country should be affected by
the destructive efforts of the United States, a country which has no belief in
wisdom, justice and preserving human rights."
US officials have said that Iran's response to the six-nation package fell
short of the conditions of a UN Security Council resolution.
The Security Council adopted the resolution late July, urging Tehran to
suspend by Aug. 31 all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including
research and development, or face prospect of sanctions.
Iran has rejected the resolution as having no legal basis.
