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'All countries voting for sanctions acted against Iran’s interests'
TEHRAN, June 16 (MNA) -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry has rejected reports claiming that it differentiates between countries that voted in favor of the latest sanctions resolution against Iran.
MP Hossein Ebrahimi said on Monday that the Foreign Ministry is of the opinion that Russia and China voted for the sanctions resolution against Iran to prevent harsher action against Tehran.
“The Foreign Ministry believes that Russia and China actually voted (for the sanctions) out of empathy, so Tehran-Moscow and Tehran-Beijing relations will not change,” Ebrahimi stated.
Attributing such false quotes to the Foreign Ministry is not correct, and these remarks are not truthful at all, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said during his weekly press briefing on Tuesday.
“We regard the votes of all the countries on the Security Council that voted against Iran to be in opposition to the interests of the Iranian nation,” Mehmanparast stated.
And Iran will take their votes into consideration when assessing its relations with those countries, he added.
Mehmanparast cited a number of reasons why the United States made such hasty efforts to push for new sanctions against Iran.
First of all, Iran believes the U.S. wanted to make amends for the West’s miscalculation when it predicted that Iran, Turkey, and Brazil would not be able to reach an agreement on a nuclear fuel swap, he noted.
Secondly, the U.S. thought it could recoup its losses after the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in May, when it illogically supported Israel but the participants voiced concern over Israel’s nuclear activities, he said.
Thirdly, Washington sought to distract attention from the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, he added.
“Sanctions will not stop Iran’s nuclear activities. Sanctions will make us more determined to become self-sufficient,” Mehmanparast stated.
On the Tehran declaration, he said Iran will seriously pursue the proposal put forward in the declaration.
According to the declaration, which was signed by the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil in Tehran on May 17, Iran would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.
On the response of the Vienna group (Russia, France, and the U.S.) to the Tehran declaration, he said the three countries raised some questions about the declaration that were not related to the fuel exchange, but Brazil and Turkey responded to those questions.
On the possibility that the European Union will impose its own sanctions on Iran, he said the EU’s carrot and stick policy is wrong and illogical because such measures cannot resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
MP Hossein Ebrahimi said on Monday that the Foreign Ministry is of the opinion that Russia and China voted for the sanctions resolution against Iran to prevent harsher action against Tehran.
“The Foreign Ministry believes that Russia and China actually voted (for the sanctions) out of empathy, so Tehran-Moscow and Tehran-Beijing relations will not change,” Ebrahimi stated.
Attributing such false quotes to the Foreign Ministry is not correct, and these remarks are not truthful at all, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said during his weekly press briefing on Tuesday.
“We regard the votes of all the countries on the Security Council that voted against Iran to be in opposition to the interests of the Iranian nation,” Mehmanparast stated.
And Iran will take their votes into consideration when assessing its relations with those countries, he added.
Mehmanparast cited a number of reasons why the United States made such hasty efforts to push for new sanctions against Iran.
First of all, Iran believes the U.S. wanted to make amends for the West’s miscalculation when it predicted that Iran, Turkey, and Brazil would not be able to reach an agreement on a nuclear fuel swap, he noted.
Secondly, the U.S. thought it could recoup its losses after the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in May, when it illogically supported Israel but the participants voiced concern over Israel’s nuclear activities, he said.
Thirdly, Washington sought to distract attention from the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, he added.
“Sanctions will not stop Iran’s nuclear activities. Sanctions will make us more determined to become self-sufficient,” Mehmanparast stated.
On the Tehran declaration, he said Iran will seriously pursue the proposal put forward in the declaration.
According to the declaration, which was signed by the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil in Tehran on May 17, Iran would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.
On the response of the Vienna group (Russia, France, and the U.S.) to the Tehran declaration, he said the three countries raised some questions about the declaration that were not related to the fuel exchange, but Brazil and Turkey responded to those questions.
On the possibility that the European Union will impose its own sanctions on Iran, he said the EU’s carrot and stick policy is wrong and illogical because such measures cannot resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
