Westˈs Pressures Complicates Nuclear Talks With Iran: Envoy To Paris

Tehran, Feb 4, IRNA -- Iranian Ambassador to France Ali Ahani called western pressures against Tehranˈs nuclear program as a factor which complicates the nuclear talks between Iran and the West. He made the remarks in the celebrations of the Ten-Day-Dawn (February 1-10) marking the 34th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Several Iranians residing in France and Muslims from other nationalities attended the ceremony. “Iranˈs 1979 revolution was inspiring for the ongoing Islamic Awakening in the region and a beginning to other surprising events at the international scene,ˈ envoy said. Ahani underlined that Islamic revolution in Iran revived hope in the oppressed nations and changed the international equations which was disappointing to the arrogant powers. Pointing to the sanction of Iran’s banking system by the West, the Iranian ambassador noted that 5+1 group complicated nuclear talks with Iran through exerting pressures on the country by blindly obeying the US. ˈAnti-Iranian sanction which prevents the import of several necessary items, including the drugs to Iran strengthened national solidarity and unity against outside pressures; the west in another step, avoided to provide the 20 degree enriched uranium required for Tehran’s research reactor and it forced Tehran to promote the level of its enrichment process from 3.5 to 20.” 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 (UNSC) sanctions and the western embargos 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 drive to continue the path. Iran has managed to survive the long-term sanctions by providing its needs from the black market. Iran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEAˈs questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities. Iranian officials have on repeated occasions reiterated that the US-led western sanctions on the country have influenced Iranˈs economy positively. In the meantime, Ahani voiced hope that the Syrian crisis would be resolved in the near future and noted that Syrian government is paying the price of its resistance towards the Zionist regime occupying force. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. Thousands of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes. The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad. The US and its western and regional allies have long sought to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ruling system. Media reports said that the Syrian rebels and terrorist groups have received significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, a crime paid for by the Persian Gulf Arab states and coordinated by the United States./end