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207033
Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:32
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VP Reiterates Iran's Strong Opposition to N. Weapons
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Nasrin Soltankhah underlined Tehran's strong opposition to the development and proliferation of nuclear military capability, and said developing nuclear weapons is against all ethical and religious rules.
"We are clarifying now as we will clarify in the future that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes," Soltankhah said at a press briefing in Vienna on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported. "Our ethics prohibit us from pursuing any other directions."
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Seyed Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called nuclear weapons anti-Islamic and has forbidden their development.
Soltankhah underlined Iran's "transparent cooperation with the IAEA", and added, "We have answered and will continue to answer questions from the IAEA."
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.
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.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
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 the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
Washington's push for additional UN penalties contradicts a 2007 report by 16 US intelligence bodies that endorsed the civilian nature of Iran's programs. Following the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and similar reports by the IAEA head - including a report in November 2007 and another one in February 2008 - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran, any effort to impose further sanctions on Iran seems to be completely irrational.
"We are clarifying now as we will clarify in the future that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes," Soltankhah said at a press briefing in Vienna on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported. "Our ethics prohibit us from pursuing any other directions."
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Seyed Ali Khamenei has repeatedly called nuclear weapons anti-Islamic and has forbidden their development.
Soltankhah underlined Iran's "transparent cooperation with the IAEA", and added, "We have answered and will continue to answer questions from the IAEA."
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.
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.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
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 the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
Washington's push for additional UN penalties contradicts a 2007 report by 16 US intelligence bodies that endorsed the civilian nature of Iran's programs. Following the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and similar reports by the IAEA head - including a report in November 2007 and another one in February 2008 - which praised Iran's truthfulness about key aspects of its past nuclear activities and announced settlement of outstanding issues with Tehran, any effort to impose further sanctions on Iran seems to be completely irrational.
