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Nuclear activities excuse for West to impede Tehran’s scientific progress: AEOI Deputy

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, April 5, IRNA -- Nuclear Program is an excuse for the West to impede Iranian nations’ scientific progresses, Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Mohammad Ahmadian said on Friday.

Deputy head of AEOI made the remarks in his speech before the Markazi Province capital, Arak, Friday Prayer Sermons.

“Nuclear technology can guarantee countries’ scientific progress forward; this technology has an important role in various fields of agriculture, medicine, industry and electricity production,” Ahmadian noted.

He underlined the western states know well that Tehran doesn’t aim to produce nuclear weapons but They want to impede Tehran’s technological progress by their sanctions and pressures.

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 for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed the West’s demand as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path.

Political observers believe that the West has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran’s nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.

Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the NPT would encourage the world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West’s hard-line stance on Tehran.

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