News - Middle East: Parliament Speaker Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf says Iran activated new and advanced centrifuges in response to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s recent move to pass a politically motivated resolution against the country’s civilian nuclear program.

Qalibaf made the remarks during an open parliamentary session on Sunday, three days after the IAEA’s Board of Governors voted 19 to 3, with 12 abstentions, for the anti-Iran document.

He said that the “unrealistic, politicized, and destructive approach” adopted by Britain, France, Germany, and the United States led to the issuance of the “unjustified and non-consensus” resolution on Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities.

“The Islamic Republic’s reciprocal response to the political misuse of the IAEA’s Board of Governors was immediately put on the agenda, and the launching of a series of new and advanced centrifuges began,” he added.

The parliament speaker also censured the three European states and the US for using Iran’s peaceful atomic program as an excuse for their illegitimate actions aimed at questioning the IAEA’s credibility and independence, as well as tarnishing the constructive atmosphere in Tehran’s interactions with the agency.

Israel ‘the most hated and isolated’ regime

Also in his remarks, Qalibaf referred to the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant over war crimes related to the ongoing Gaza genocide.

He said the ruling against “two of the greatest war criminals in contemporary history” is the first in a chain of measures against Israel’s murderous officials over their atrocities in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

“Now the Zionist regime is both hated and isolated, while 80 years of lies and whitewashing of its heinous crimes have become ineffective as a result of the blood of tens of thousands of martyrs in Gaza and Lebanon,” including resistance commanders, he noted.

Since early October 2023, Israel has been waging brutal two-front aggression that has killed at least 44,176 people in the Gaza Strip and 3,670 others in Lebanon so far.

Israel’s deadly assaults have displaced almost the entire population of Gaza and more than a fifth of Lebanon’s residents.

Press TV