Tehran to continue uranium enrichment: FM spokesman
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, July 6, IRNA -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast said here on Tuesday that Tehran will continue the process of uranium enrichment.
Talking to reporters during his weekly press briefing, he stressed that uranium enrichment process, within the framework of peaceful nuclear activities, is a legitimate right of all member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the signatories to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
As to reports that some countries were refusing refueling of Iranian passenger planes, he said official sources in those countries have denied the report.
Mehman-Parast emphasized that the refueling of the Iranian planes is going on in foreign countries and that such false reports are published in a bid to create psychological atmosphere against the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian official had said that the country’s passenger planes had been denied refueling in Germany, Britain and the United Arab Emirates as a result of tighter US sanctions. But those countries did not confirm imposing any ban.
On Tehran-Riyadh relations, Mehman-Parast said certain countries concerned over friendly ties between Islamic states try to sow discord among Muslim and regional countries.
Referring to Iran and Saudi Arabia as two major regional states, he said expansion of all-out ties with regional countries is a priority in Iran’s foreign policy, Mehman-Parast said, reiterating that Riyadh can play a key role in this regard.
As to current visit to Iraq of the US Vice President Joe Biden, he said his trip is aimed at interfering in Baghdad’s domestic affairs.
He urged Washington not to interfere in domestic affairs of the regional countries and leave the Iraqi affairs to the Iraqi people so that they can determine their own fate.
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End News / IRNA / News Code 1215467
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