TEHERAN HOPING FOR CLOSURE OF IAEA NUCLEAR DOSSIER

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TEHERAN, May 7 (RIA Novosti) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi has said he is hopeful that the International Atomic Energy Agency's governing council will close its dossier on Iran's compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as it gathers for a session in June 2004.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry's press service quoted Kharrazi as saying Friday that Iran's nuclear programs were open and transparent.

He called the international community's attention to the lack of evidence to prove Iran's alleged development of nuclear weapons in the reports on Iran by the IAEA Secretary General, Mohamed el-Baradei.

"We are continuing cooperation with the IAEA and European countries, and are hopeful that at the Iranian dossier will be closed at the forthcoming session of the agency's governing board," Kharrazi said.

According to an expert of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Teheran is to submit to the IAEA a comprehensive report on its nuclear programs within the next few days. In the meantime, IAEA inspectors will be checking Iranian nuclear facilities. These inspections are to continue till the end of May.

Agency inspectors will gather all relevant information to form the foundation for el-Baradei's report at the upcoming session of the agency's governing board, the source said.

Given the United States' pressure on Iran, which has had the tendency to mount before every session of the IAEA governing board in the past year-and-a-half, the IAEA leadership may well let itself fall under the American influence and adopt resolutions condemning Iran yet again, the Iranian expert speculated.

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