Spokesman Lashes out at Obama's Allegations against Iran in AIPAC Speech

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that the allegations raised by US President Barack Obama at a pro-Israel lobby meeting in Washington in recent days served as a part of the plot hatched by the US and the Zionist regime to spread Iranophobia.
"Barack Obama's remarks about our peaceful nuclear activities aim to serve the premeditated propaganda launched by the US-Zionist front to spread Islamophobia in our region," Mehman-Parast told reporters in his weekly press conference on Tuesday.

He added that such allegations against Iran are the result of Washington's failure in attracting regional support after the announcement of the new US Mideast policy by Obama last week.

"In a bid to compensate for these failures and because the real goals of the declared US policies have been unveiled, they have once again moved towards accusing our country and portraying our fully peaceful activities as military activities," Mehman-Parast stated.

The remarks by the Iranian foreign ministry presser came after Obama on Sunday renewed support for Zionist regime and repeated past allegation about Iran's nuclear program and added that the US is determined "to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons".

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.