Iranˈs Success Makes Enemy Desperate: Interim Friday Prayer Leader

Tehran, March 9, IRNA – Islamic Republic achievements in various fields has made enemies desperate and angry towards Iranian nation, Interim Friday Prayer Leader Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi Kermani said in his second sermon. “Iranian nation’s progress in the fields of science roots in its hope for realization of Islamic Revolution’s holy ideals.” He added that Iran’s technological achievements and its international influence during the past three decades are wonderful. “Sanctions are an excuse for the West to pressure Iranian nation and force them to stand against the governing system; massive turnout of people in the 22nd day of Bahman rallies around the country disappointed the enemy.” The 22nd of Bahman (February 10) marks anniversary of victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty. 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 and western embargo for turning down Westˈs calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment. Tehran has dismissed Westˈs demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iraniansˈ national resolve to continue the path. The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)ˈs questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities. Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehranˈs 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./end