Iran has full right to use nuclear energy: Amr Moussa

Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has declared that diplomacy should be “the only way” to deal with Iran and that Iran has the “full right” to use nuclear energy.

"We are going to follow closely the negotiations to start on the first of October," DPA quoted Moussa as saying in Cairo on Tuesday.

Moussa was referring to the upcoming meeting between Iran and the P5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China -- plus Germany), which is scheduled to take place in Geneva on October 1.

"It will be a long road, but dealing with Iran through diplomacy is important, essential, and should be the only way," he insisted.

"Arab countries have formulated a consensual position," Moussa said.

"The Middle East does not need any nuclear weapons program," he added.

"This also applies to Israel, in view of the fact that Israel is outside the realm of the Non-Proliferation Treaty," he stressed, saying, "Iran has the full right to benefit from peaceful uses of nuclear energy."