US should stop interfering in Iran

A leading US lawyer has denounced as “illegal” sanctions imposed by his country on Iran, urging the US government to stop interfering in Tehran’s internal affairs.

“Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities are legal. Inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are constantly in Iran and Tehran is cooperating with them,” IRNA quoted Sanford Kelson, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (PA) Lawyer as saying on Monday.

He added that no case of violation of laws has been observed in Iran’s nuclear activities yet and said no individual or body has succeeded in providing documents proving that the Islamic Republic has a secret nuclear program.

Kelson said the imposition of sanctions is not “correct diplomacy” even if it is assumed that Iran may develop a secret nuclear plan and added, “The US government should hold talks with (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad’s government.”

According to Kelson, the United States which claims that it seeks international peace is the main exporter of weapons in the world.

“If we intend to show our goodwill, we should first reduce our weapons to the least level. We should possess weapons to the level that is needed to defend ourselves,” he said and added all countries can then reduce their weapons to that level.

The lawyer went on to say that the US government believes that the United States without too much weapons cannot create an empire.

Following the imposition of the US-engineered UN Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran over its nuclear program in June, the US and EU imposed unilateral sanctions targeting the country’s energy and financial sectors.

Tehran has vehemently rejected the West’s accusations that it is developing nuclear weapons, insisting that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it has the right to pursue and utilize the many civilian applications of nuclear technology.