An Iranian diplomat says the Islamic Republic has managed to produce indigenous fuel needed for its reactors, and advance its nuclear energy program despite pressures and embargos against it.Despite growing international pressure and sanctions against Iran to develop its nuclear program, the Islamic country has come up with its own indigenous fuel in response to the opposition and unavailability of uranium to run its nuclear reactors, Iranian Consul General in the Indian city of Hyderabad, Hassan Nourian, said on Tuesday at a lecture entitled Irans Islamic revolution: Ideals and Achievements at the Center for Indian Ocean Studies at Osmania University in Hyderabad, IRNA reported.
He added that young Iranian scientists have successfully produced fuel for the countrys nuclear reactors even though international sanctions made it initially difficult for Iran to acquire nuclear fuel.
Nourian also pointed to the fatwa issued by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, forbidding the creation and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear bomb has been declared as religiously forbidden, and we wont use our nuclear power for anything other than peace, the Iranian diplomat noted.
On February 22, 2012, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic considers the pursuit and possession of nuclear weapons a grave sin from every logical, religious, and theoretical standpoint.
The Leader described the proliferation of nuclear weapons as senseless, destructive, and dangerous, adding that the Iranian nation has never sought and will never seek atomic bombs as the country already has the conventional capacity to challenge the nuclear-backed powers.
The US, Israel, and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran rejects the allegations, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
In addition, the IAEA has conducted numerous inspections of Irans nuclear facilities but has never found any evidence showing that Irans civilian nuclear program has been diverted to nuclear weapons production.
By Press TV
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