Asefi: Iran not to give up research activities
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, March 15, IRNA
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Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said here Wednesday Iran would not give up its peaceful research activities.
"The activities are our inalienable right and no one can make such a request," Asefi told reporters.
He made the remark in response to a question on how Tehran would react if the UN Security Council called Iran to suspend its research activities.
He described the current Iranian year (ending March 20, 2006) a "busy year for Iran's diplomacy" and pledged Tehran will have an effective presence in international scenes on the basis of its policy of negotiation in the coming year.
Answering a question on alleged lack of coordination between stances of Iranian officials and those of the Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani, the spokesman said, "There has not been any lack of coordination.
"If you put the (diplomats' and Larijani's) interviews together like pieces of a puzzle, then you will find out that their stances are not uncoordinated," Asefi stressed.
Commenting on US efforts to impose sanctions against Iran, the spokesman said he was surprised why Washington was still pursuing a policy which has proved to be inefficient in the past 25 years.
"Why they (US officials) do not learn a lesson from their failures?" Asefi asked surprisingly.
He stressed despite the problems they have created for Iran, previous sanctions against Iran have led to the country's
economic and industrial development.
"The US officials have to notice that any further sanctions will bear no fruit but more prosperity for the country," Asefi said.
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