Official: Nuclear program a guarantee for national progress
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Beijing, March 15, IRNA
Iran-Nuclear-Comment
Nuclear program is a guarantee for progress and development of the country, while being an important conomic and scientific issue of Iran, said and Iranian nuclear official here on Wednesday.
"... nuclear program is both economically and scientifically important for the country," said Under-Secretary of Supreme National Security Council for Economic and Technological Affairs Mohammad Nahavandian in an address to a group of researchers and thinkers of Chinese research institutions.
Nahavandian said energy in Iran's economy plays a key role in terms of being the driving force of development and the country's presence on all the international scenes. Hence, he added, the country's long-term strategy is based on promoting other economic sectors and maintaining Iran's position in the global energy.
Fossil energy will lose its importance in the coming decades and other sources of energy, including nuclear energy, should fill the gap, he added.
Due to the same reason, he said, nuclear energy becomes important for Iran's long-term economic planning, economic security and presence on the international scene.
He said on the other hand, nuclear program provides a guarantee or Iran's progress and development, the prerequisite of which being future generations' access to modern technologies.
He reiterated that Iranian officials have times and again stressed that national nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes and is not military-grade.
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