An Iranian official underlined the ineffectiveness of the US-led western sanction on Iran and its scientific progress, and said that Washington and the West have increased their pressures on the Islamic Republic to hinder Iran's progress, but to no avail.
"Iranian nation knows well that enemy excuses for pressuring Tehran will not end even if Tehran withdraws from its legal rights; enemies want Muslim nations, including Iran, backward, but Tehran's breakthroughs in various fields of science proved that enemy plots are doomed to failure," Iran's Deputy Interior Minister Solat Mortazavi said.

He noted that the arrogant powers impose sanctions on independent nations to force them to surrender.

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.

Tehran has repeatedly said 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.

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