Source Rejects Media Report on N. Korean Nuclear Experts’ Iran Visit
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An informed source at Iran’s embassy in France flatly rejected a Thursday report by Reuters news agency office in Paris claiming that a team of North Korean nuclear and missile experts have visited Iran.
“The story has been published on the basis of completely wrong information and acts of falsification by the notorious and mercenary group of Monafeqin (the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO),” the informed source at Iran’s Paris embassy said.
“It is predictable that such fake reports surge as we get closer to the deadline of nuclear talks and the chance of achieving a comprehensive agreement is increased,” the source added.
On Thursday, Reuters’s office in Paris cited an opposition group as reporting that a seven-person delegation of North Korean nuclear and missile experts visited a military site near Tehran in April.
While Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) are in talks to hammer out a lasting nuclear accord, efforts are underway by certain parties, such as Israel or the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorist organization to derail the negotiations.
On April 2, Tehran and the six powers reached a framework nuclear agreement in Lausanne, Switzerland, with both sides committed to push for a final deal until the end of June.
Diplomats from the two sides are now drafting the text of the final accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
