Tehran hopes for earliest solution to "nuclear file" problem

TEHRAN, June 15 (RIA Novosti, Nikolai Terekhov) - Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Hassan Rouhani told reporters today he hoped the re-election of Mohamed ElBaradei as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would mean a quick solution to the problem of Iran's "nuclear file."

Rouhani, who is responsible for the development of Iran's nuclear program, said after ElBaradei's re-election on Monday that the IAEA head had indicated cooperation between the Agency and Iran was developing.

Rouhani said: "We hope that in the course of further cooperation the remaining questions concerning the contamination of the centrifuges with enriched uranium and the story of the creation of the Pi-2 centrifuge, and thus the whole problem of the Iranian 'nuclear file,' will soon be solved."

Tehran hopes to resolve the "nuclear file" issue at a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors under way in Vienna. However, it does not intend to relinquish its legal right to develop nuclear technologies.

At present Tehran has suspended its uranium enrichment program in an agreement with the "European troika" -Britain, France, and Germany.