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Sun, 07/03/2011 - 07:57
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Envoy Urges West to Avoid Failed Policies on Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's residing Representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh underlined that Iran has already achieved the peaceful nuclear technology, and called on the West to accept the realities about Iran and avoid pursuing failed policies of the past.
Addressing a high-level international disarmament conference at the German foreign ministry, Soltaniyeh emphasized the western carrot-and-stick approach as well as its sanction-dialogue strategy was actually a "humiliation of the Iranian nation."
He added the carrot-and-stick policy was in fact "a notion applied to animals", and called on the West to undertake an "in-depth study of Iranian culture."
Soltaniyeh made clear the West had to cope with the fact that Iran had mastered enrichment technology.
He reiterated his country would "not give up" this right but would still continue its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Soltaniyeh said Iran was "ready to show full cooperation" on the nuclear issue if the UN Security resolutions were removed.
The Iranian official urged the West to return to the negotiating table without preconditions, the Islamic republic news agency reported.
He reiterated the West had to finally recognize Iran's inalienable rights to have
nuclear energy.
The US-led West accuses 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.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for other third-world countries.
Addressing a high-level international disarmament conference at the German foreign ministry, Soltaniyeh emphasized the western carrot-and-stick approach as well as its sanction-dialogue strategy was actually a "humiliation of the Iranian nation."
He added the carrot-and-stick policy was in fact "a notion applied to animals", and called on the West to undertake an "in-depth study of Iranian culture."
Soltaniyeh made clear the West had to cope with the fact that Iran had mastered enrichment technology.
He reiterated his country would "not give up" this right but would still continue its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Soltaniyeh said Iran was "ready to show full cooperation" on the nuclear issue if the UN Security resolutions were removed.
The Iranian official urged the West to return to the negotiating table without preconditions, the Islamic republic news agency reported.
He reiterated the West had to finally recognize Iran's inalienable rights to have
nuclear energy.
The US-led West accuses 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.
Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for other third-world countries.
