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Sat, 09/17/2011 - 13:08
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Washington Post Editor: US Boastful Remarks on Fruits of Iran Sanctions "Empty"
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Washington Post editor said the US sanctions on Iran have failed to leave a negative impact on the country's progress and access to different commodities and products, and reiterated that Washington's propaganda in this regard are all empty and unreal.
"I always read (in the news) in the US that Iran is under harsh pressure due to the sanctions and there are abundant problems, but I have now found out that it this not true," Senior Associate Editor of the US daily, Washington Post, Lilly Graham Weymouth told FNA during her visit to Iran.
She made the remarks after a meeting with FNA Managing Director Seyed Nezameddin Moussavi.
"This is the first time that I have come to Iran and I never thought that Iran would be like this, but now my view has changed about those propagandas," Weymouth added.
Despite the hostile policies and moves of the United States and its European allies, Iran has shown a promising trend of growth in science and economy.
Earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lauded Iran's flourishing economy, and dismissed as useless the efforts made by the US and its western allies to tarnish the public image of Iran's economy.
"They (enemies) are seeking to show that the (Iranian) economy and people's living conditions are bad, while the truth is to the opposite and our country does not have any problem," Ahmadinejad said, addressing the inauguration ceremony of four major industrial and production projects in Iran's Northwestern province of West Azarbaijan in July.
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.
"I always read (in the news) in the US that Iran is under harsh pressure due to the sanctions and there are abundant problems, but I have now found out that it this not true," Senior Associate Editor of the US daily, Washington Post, Lilly Graham Weymouth told FNA during her visit to Iran.
She made the remarks after a meeting with FNA Managing Director Seyed Nezameddin Moussavi.
"This is the first time that I have come to Iran and I never thought that Iran would be like this, but now my view has changed about those propagandas," Weymouth added.
Despite the hostile policies and moves of the United States and its European allies, Iran has shown a promising trend of growth in science and economy.
Earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lauded Iran's flourishing economy, and dismissed as useless the efforts made by the US and its western allies to tarnish the public image of Iran's economy.
"They (enemies) are seeking to show that the (Iranian) economy and people's living conditions are bad, while the truth is to the opposite and our country does not have any problem," Ahmadinejad said, addressing the inauguration ceremony of four major industrial and production projects in Iran's Northwestern province of West Azarbaijan in July.
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.
