TEHRAN (FNA)- Sanctions and pressures cannot force the Iranian nation to surrender, a senior Iranian legislator stressed, rejecting the possibility of a compromise on the country's nuclear rights.


�The Fordow site is not supposed to be closed. Iran will not give up its nuclear rights under pressure from others. Therefore, everybody knows that it is impossible for Fordow site to be shut down,� Member of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari said on Tuesday.

He pointed to the recent visit by a team of Iranian MPs to the nuclear enrichment facilities in Fordow and noted that the parliamentarians were satisfied with the progress at the site.

�The activities of Fordow site have brought about extensive achievements for Iran in the nuclear arena,� Asafari added.

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.

By Fars News Agency

 

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