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Nuclear issue not US real problem with Iran: 1st Vice-President

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Beijing, April 18, IRNA -- First Vice-President of Iran Parviz Davoudi said on Saturday that losing Washington’s old interests in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution was the main problem of the US with Iran not the latter’s peaceful nuclear program.

Speaking to the Hong-Kong’s news network, Phoenix, the Iranian official said that US had enormous interests in Iran which were later stopped after the victory of revolution in the country.

Instead of adopting a reasonable and logical approach towards Iran in the post-revolution era, the US has pursued a hostile attitude, Davoudi stated.

The Iranian official is in China to attend the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2009 which is to start officially on Saturday with a speech by the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.

The event is to be participated by more than 1,600 leaders, senior officials and experts from 40 countries.

Referring to the completion of the nuclear fuel cycle by Iranian scientists, Davoudi said after mastering the nuclear fuel cycle, Iran “believes that the issue of its nuclear program has ended now and it is time to discuss major international issues such as the global nuclear disarmament within the framework of the seven-party group.”

The term ‘seven-party group’ was originally used by Chairman of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi on April 12 when the MP suggested that in order to refer to the countries involved in the nuclear talks with Iran, it would be better to use the term ‘seven-party group.’

“From now on, instead of the Group 5+1 which is involved in talks with Iran on the country’s peaceful nuclear program, the term of '7-party group' should be used," Boroujerdi told reporters.

The G5+1 consisted of the US, Britain, China, Russia and France and Germany.

More in his interview with the Hong-Kong news network, Davoudi said he believed that even the US had accepted the fact now that the issue of Iran’s nuclear activities is over and it is time to discuss other major international developments.

He added that problems facing the poor countries could be considered another major issue to be discussed by the seven-party group.

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End News / IRNA / News Code 440431