Tehran, Iran -- The Iranian parliament on Sunday endorsed an urgent draft resolution to freeze the action of UN investigators at Iranian nuclear sites.

In an open session, the parliament bound the government to reconsider the cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The parliament dismissed UN Security Council Resolution 1737 against Iranian nuclear program as illegal and tyrannical. Iranian MPs expressed indignation at the UN move of passing the resolution while ignoring the fact that the Iranian nuclear program has been designed for civilian use.

"Iran has exercised full cooperation with the (IAEA) and that the UN agency has carried out over 2,000 person/hour inspection on Iranian nuclear sites. So, under the current circumstances under which the Security Council passed its resolution against Iran, it is not logical to continue cooperating with the agency," said Mr. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Parliamentary Commission for National Security and Foreign Policy. He added referring the Iranian nuclear program to the Security Council by the IAEA Board of Governors was an illegal action as Iran is a signatory of the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "The Security Council action is illegal and unacceptable.

It is unacceptable to see the United States deprive Iran of its rights enshrined by the NPT," Boroujerdi declared. "Iran has already exercised good faith with voluntary suspension of nuclear program for two and a half years to help remove outstanding issues with IAEA and allowed the agency's inspectors to take samples from all the nuclear sites even from military sites to prove that the Iranian nuclear program is civilian," he added.

In his two reports about Iranian nuclear program, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed in November 2004 and 2005 that Iran has made no diversion from civilian drive, he said. Boroujerdi said that France, Britain and Germany have followed the United States to pass a politically motivated resolution on Iran, whereas, the IAEA Board of Governors was the only forum to go ahead with resolving the outstanding issues between Iran and the agency.