Iran to offer special service in nuclear cooperation with EU

Iran and the European Union have great opportunity for cooperation in the nuclear field, which will not be like many other countries' cooperation for Iran is able to offer special services, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behrooz Kamalvandi said.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting between EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Kamalvandi said the special opportunity comes from two aspects of Iran's nuclear program, Trend correspondent reported April 16.

"The first aspect is that Iran needs to be producing about 10 percent of its electricity from nuclear energy, and the second is that the country has a lot of expert human resources. We can offer help to the other sides, which means a different kind of cooperation with Europeans," the spokesman added.

Regarding hot events on agenda in the AEOI, he said AEOI chief Ali Akbar Salehi is scheduled to meet European Commissioner for Energy Union Maroš Šef?ovi? the following day.

Salehi is also going to travel to the Czech republic next week to discuss bilateral cooperation with that country as a leading power in nuclear technology, Kamalvandi added.

Asked by Trend about Iran's heavy water production and export program, he said Tehran is holding talks with various countries to that effect.

After the JCPOA went into effect on January 16, all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on Iran by the European Union, the Security Council and the US were lifted. Iran, in return, has put some limitations on its nuclear activities.

The EU and other powers have promised to help Iran modernize its nuclear industry.

Mogherini has traveled to the Iranian capital on a one-day visit at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation comprising seven European commissioners.

/By Trend/