Blix: Iran entitled to enrich uranium

Press TV
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has underscored Iran's right to acquire peaceful nuclear technology as a signatory of the NPT.

In an interview with the Russian daily Vremya Novostei on Tuesday, Blix suggested that the West should propose enough incentives to Iran in order to convince the country to suspend uranium enrichment as an inalienable right.

Besides economic incentives, the international community should also assure Iran there would be no possibility of attack on the country, he added.

As the Chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), Blix termed concerns over Iran's intentions as baseless.

Referring to the fact that the US delivered the equipment required to run a nuclear program to Iran before the victory of the Islamic Revolution, he reminded that everything would have certainly been continued if the Islamic Revolution had not taken place in Iran.

Blix, who led the hunt for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, was one of the vocal critics of the US invasion on the country in 2003.

He was also awarded the Sydney Peace Prize in 2007.