国际英语新闻：Iran not to join Additional Protocol of NPT: FM

TEHRAN, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Wednesday that Iran has no plan to join the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the official IRNA news agency reported.

 "The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) is quite aware of the fact that Iran has no plan to join the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," Mottaki was quoted as saying.

A Ghadr 1 class Shahab 3 long range missile rises into the air during a test from an unknown location in central Iran Sept. 28, 2009

"Iran's nuclear activities which are of peaceful nature are quite transparent and Tehran will continue with its program within the IAEA framework," he told reporters at the end of Iran's cabinet session on Wednesday.

    Iran has already threatened that in case the six major powers, China, the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany, intend to force Iran to suspend its nuclear program, Iran will even "withdraw from the NPT."

    Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said Tuesday that the IAEA has proved many times the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.

    The United States and other Western powers suspect Iran's nuclear program is aimed at producing nuclear-weapon materials, but Tehran contends that the program has no military component and has rejected calls to halt the effort.