Iran says 'no legal basis' for new UN nuclear resolution

Iran sees no legal basis for a new UN resolution against Tehran over its nuclear activities, a top security official said on Saturday. “If the Security Council wants to issue a resolution it will be legally and technically baseless,” Javad Vaidi, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying. Government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham called it “illegal and unjustifiable to keep Iran's nuclear case at the Security Council,” vowing “it will not affect the country's will” to pursue its nuclear programme, the state news agency IRNA reported. He said the issue has to go back to the IAEA which reported on Friday that it had made “quite good progress” in its long-running probe into Iran's disputed nuclear drive