TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Iranian lawmaker underlined the Iranian nations rigid stance on using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.There is a general consensus among the Iranian nation over (the right of) the peaceful use of the nuclear energy and they will never give up their right under any condition, Head of the parliaments Foreign Policy Committee Vahid Ahmadisaid in a meeting with Brazilian Federal MP Claudio Cajado and his accompanying delegation.
The Brazilian lawmaker, for his part, pointed to the willingness of his country to further expand its friendly ties with Iran, and said, Iran has always been an important and influential country in the international arena due to its important role in the region and human culture.
Iran has in recent years expanded friendly ties with Latin America, specially in economic, trade and industrial fields.
Iran's strong and rapidly growing ties with Latin America have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies since Tehran and Latin nations have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US.
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 the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
By Fars News Agency
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