Russia: No sign of Iran N-deviation

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the Western countries have no proof to support its claims that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear program is deviating from its peaceful path.

“The international community so far has no information that Iran is building nuclear weapons,” Medvedev said on Wednesday during the 41st annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, the Associated Press reported.

The five-day conference, which opened earlier on the day in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, focuses on issues such as the European debt crisis, financial instability in the West, rising inflation, and social unrest.

Around 2,500 heads-of-state, international business and political leaders, selected intellectuals and journalists from around the world attend the annual meeting.

Medvedev said he has spoken to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and encouraged him to demonstrate that his country’s nuclear activities are peaceful.

The US and its European allies accuse Iran of efforts aimed at developing a military nuclear program, using this pretext to pressure the UN Security Council to impose a fourth round of sanctions against Iran’s financial and military sectors.

Washington also enticed the European Union to follow in its tracks by imposing further unilateral sanctions against the country’s gas and oil industries.

Iranian officials have repeatedly refuted the US-engineered charges, arguing that as a signatory to the NPT and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran has a right to use peaceful nuclear technology.