"We would be very strongly opposed to any attempts to politicize this issue and to be guided by anything except the need to keep non-proliferation regime intact," Lavrov told Russia Today, Russia's first 24-hour English-language news channel that started broadcasting at 1 p.m. GMT today.
The minister said Iran was presently cooperating with International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, and added the IAEA Board of Governors would prepare a regular report on the issue in two-three months.
Lavrov dismissed accusations that any Russian citizens were involved in violating nuclear control regulations. "All these facts were investigated. I have never seen anything of that sort in the last few years," he said.
Lavrov said nuclear cooperation with Iran at an intergovernmental level was limited to building the Bushehr nuclear power plant. "This is done in a fully transparent manner under permanent monitoring of International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors," the minister concluded.
