TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran-Germany Parliamentary Friendship Group Mohammad Javad Heravi in a meeting with Deputy Head of the Social Democratic Party in the German Parliament Rolf Mtzenich described the western sanctions against Iran as a cruel move, and called on the West to display its good will by removing them."The western countries should show their good will by removing the sanctions against the Iranian nation as soon as possible," Heravi said during the meeting on Saturday.
"The embargos on medicines and anything that pressures the people are unfair and a cruelty against the nations," he added.
Elsewhere, Heravi underlined the Iran-Germany Parliamentary Friendship Group's willingness to see further expansion of political and economic relations with Germany.
Mtzenich, for his part, underlined the two countries' interest in the further enhancement of their ties and cooperation, and said, "The parliaments of Iran and Germany can help their governments in the development of the bilateral political, economic and cultural relations."
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 and the western embargos 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.
By Fars News Agency
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