29 Mar 2024
Wednesday 23 October 2013 - 16:29
Story Code : 59494

MP terms US main barrier to diplomatic settlement of Iran-West N. standoff

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi lashed out at the US for its hostile approaches toward Iran, and said that Washington is the main obstacle to the international efforts made to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff between Tehran and the West.


The Iranian parliamentarian Tuesday stressed that the United States has been the main factor behind the inconclusiveness of nuclear talks between Iran and the Group5+1(the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany).

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 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.

By Fars News Agency

 

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