"In the course of closed consultations, some of the deputies protested against the agreements concluded with the Europeans, viewing them as a violation of the country's national interests, and also called for examining the possibility of sacking the Iranian officials who took part in the negotiations," the source said.
"Other parliamentarians were displeased that they had not been informed of the progress of talks, but on the whole accepted the accords positively, noting that concrete results can be evaluated later," the source told the agency.
Meanwhile, Hassan Rohani, Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary, said that "the Majlis cannot lodge complaints, because parliament speaker Hoddad Adel is a member of the Council and attended all the Council's sittings that looked into the Iranian nuclear programmes."
"Deputies are fully entitled to articulate their views on various issues, but a preliminary agreement with the EU does not need ratification of the Majlis," the secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council added.
Last weekend, representatives of Iran and three European countries (Britain, France and Germany) had signed an agreement about preliminary understandings under which the Islamic Republic was partly to suspend its efforts in uranium enrichment, and the European Union promised to open talks on signing a trade treaty within the EU-Iran framework, assist Iran in joining the WTO, cooperate with it in fighting terrorism and help form a legitimate elective government in neighbouring Iraq.
The sides set up working groups to be concerned next three months with elaboration of final agreements on the Iranian nuclear programmes and on guarantees for fulfilling the obligations.
On November 25, IAEA's Vienna headquarters will serve as the venue for a meeting of the agency's board of governors which will continue its examination of Iran's nuclear dossier.
