Dubai: Iran on Sunday criticised the Indo-US civil nuclear deal warning that it will "endanger" the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and trigger a "new crises" for the international community, days after New Delhi said it will not support Teheran's nuclear ambitions.
Deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Mohammad Saeedi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency that "cooperation in the area of transfer of nuclear technology to the NPT non-members will endanger the treaty."
"The method used by several nuclear states to transfer the technology to non-members of the NPT will create new crises for the international community," Saeedi said.
He said that "privileges" to nuclear-armed India which is not a member of NPT will undermine the treaty.
According to the NPT, only signatories to the treaty can make use of the rights mentioned in the treaty, he added.
The comments came in the backdrop of intense pressure faced by Iran over its atomic programme.
The US Congress has cleared the landmark nuclear deal early this week and President George W. Bush is due to sign it into law on Wednesday.
Making it clear that India will not support Iran's nuclear weapon ambitions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had last week joined the European Union(EU) in asking Tehran to "re-establish" confidence in the nature of its nuclear programme.
In some balancing act, Singh after the Indo-EU summit in Marseilles in France last week, had however said that Iran as a signatory to the NPT was entitled to all that is needed to develop its civil nuclear programme for which it must undertake all the obligations.
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