Nuclear Official Deplores West’s Hostile Policy towards Iran

Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon Abbasi reiterated that the Western states’ traditional hostility, and not Iran’s nuclear progress, is the root cause of sanctions against Iran.

Iran’s program to access to nuclear technology has been used by the western governments as a pretext to go ahead with traditional hostility towards Iran, Abbasi told reporters on Sunday.

Abbasi said that the intensified sanctions have nothing to do with Iranian nuclear program and that they must be seen in the context of traditional hostility of the western governments towards Iranian nation.

In relevant remarks, on December 17, Head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi strongly criticized the West for its hostile policies towards Iran.

“The United States imposes bans on Iran based on its hostile policies against our nation. But the Islamic Republic of Iran has always turned such threats into opportunities, and taken advantage of them,” Boroujerdi said.

“The US and the West aim to halt Iran’s nuclear energy program with sanctions but our country makes decisions based on the agency’s regulations and within the framework of its national interests,” he added.

Washington and its Western allies accuse 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.

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 for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

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.

Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of IAEA’s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.