US Presidential Candidate: Iran Unaffected by Sanctions

Merlin Miller, the US presidential candidate for the American Third Position Party, underlined that scrutinizing the situation of the Iranian society reveals that the western sanctions have failed to leave an impact on the country.

“I expected to witness the painful effects of sanctions but I was taken aback when I didn’t witness such a thing,” Miller told FNA in Tehran on Wednesday, adding, “I see no harms of sanctions in Iran.”

He also underlined the Iranian people’s indifference to the western embargos, and said, “Before I came to Iran, I expected to see hostility from the Iranian people due to the sanctions imposed by my country on the Iranian nation but now that I have come to Iran, my perception has changed.”

“Iran is a country with very kind, hospitable and peace-lover people,” Miller said.

Iran is under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and unilateral western embargos for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.

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

The US-led West accuses 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.

Political observers believe that the United States 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 other third-world countries.