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Larijanis: Powers swaying public opinion from disarmament subject
Tehran, April 17, IRNA – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani and Judiciary Chief’s International Advisor Javad Larijani said here Friday that superpowers want to divert public opinion from disarmament.
In exclusive interviews with IRNA, the two Larijanis said that the flag Iran has hoisted for annihilation of nuclear weapons is among the great achievements of the government.
Ali Larijani told IRNA that disarmament is a very important and sensitive international issue.
The big powers try hard to divert public opinion from the strategic subject, warned the Majlis speaker.
Asked to comment on the significance of the Tehran nuclear session (April 17-18), Larijani said disarmament is more important for mankind today than ever because disrespect to it would entail many grave consequences for nations.
At a time when Western media and analysts are striving hard to divert nations’ attention to marginal and unnecessary issues, attention to nuclear weapons is an international must, said Ali Larijani, adding that moreover, the Tehran meeting can have good achievements for the world people in the fields of nuclear disarmament.
Meanwhile, Judiciary Chief’s International Advisor Javad Larijani told IRNA that presently, there are two movements visible worldwide in the general sense of the world: The move of the US and certain Western states, calling for nuclear weapons and mulling to initiate a big monopoly to use nuclear energy. On the other hand, certain countries, led by Iran, which believe that nuclear weapons should be dismantled and peaceful nuclear energy should be broadly put at the disposal of all.
Javad Larijani said perhaps the US did not imagine that Iran with 70 million population would be able to stand the country, backed by all the world’s policy makers. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is not powerful for operating many centrifuges, rather the country’s nuclear issue, supported by different countries, is important because Iran has stepped in a door that the US wants to close it before nations.
Lauding Iran’s “unique” role in encouraging other nations to acquire peaceful nuclear energy, Javad Larijani said the flag Iran has hoisted in the name of annihilating nuclear arms and expanding peaceful nuclear energy, will serve as a basis for a very good, beautiful, defendable and honorable move, which marks one of the big achievements of the Iranian government at the international level.
As for the Tehran meeting, Larijani said the session will be held to prove the fact that gone is the era of nuclear weapons and monopolization and the time has come for access to peaceful nuclear technology.
He commented on lthe atest stances of US State Secretary Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy and said their claims that nuclear weapons should not be discarded is not new and their global announcement of the claim will cost them dearly.
“I am confident that by the next five years, Iran will not only continue to broadly focus on its nuclear issue but the big states of the Middle East region will get access to peaceful nuclear technology as well,” said Javad Larijani.
Tehran will host a two-day international disarmament conference beginning Saturday to explore possible mechanisms for monitoring the disarmament process of the nuclear states using the capacity of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran's ambassador to Malaysia, Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, said Friday the conference would also seek to examine the illegitimacy of nuclear weapons from the religious perspective.
Other aspects of the conference include the fulfillment of approaches for global nuclear disarmament, necessity for preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons worldwide and confrontation with the double standards adopted by certain countries that possessed atomic weapons regarding other nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member states, he said.
Zahedi said the conference would also mark the commencement of human and ideological efforts regarding the "forgotten goals of the NPT".
"Western states are expected to have a constructive, legal and appropriate interaction with the Tehran disarmament conference," he said.
Delegates from various countries, international organizations and non-govermental organizations are expected to attend.
Zahedi said that the idea of holding the conference had been planned long before as part of Iran's efforts to follow up the topic of the global nuclear disarmament.
"The existence of thousands of nuclear warheads in the world poses the gravest danger to international peace and security," he said, adding that expectations on the world community to totally eliminate nuclear weapons had not yet materialized.
"While over 40 years had passed since the inception of NPT in 1968, the non-materialization of nuclear disarmament has become a serious concern. Thus the conference also seeks to explore mechanisms for materializing the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons," he said.
He noted that there was a need to control the vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons, namely the development of new generations of such weapons.
Zahedi said the international community should try to make all countries, which had not yet joined the NPT, to do so and make sure that all countries placed their nuclear activities under the surveillance of the IAEA safeguards.
Touching on the double standards and discriminatory approaches practiced by some nuclear states towards NPT member states as well as states that had yet to join the treaty, he said such practices included the imposition of restrictions on the development of peaceful nuclear programs of member states and the promotion of nuclear cooperation among countries which had not joined the NPT, and the refusal to fulfill disarmament obligations while insisting on non-proliferation obligations that severely hurt the credibility and integrity of the treaty.
Zahedi also referred to the stalemate in creating a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.
He said the existence of nuclear weapons, by its very nature, was a cause of concern, irrespective of which country possessed them./end
In exclusive interviews with IRNA, the two Larijanis said that the flag Iran has hoisted for annihilation of nuclear weapons is among the great achievements of the government.
Ali Larijani told IRNA that disarmament is a very important and sensitive international issue.
The big powers try hard to divert public opinion from the strategic subject, warned the Majlis speaker.
Asked to comment on the significance of the Tehran nuclear session (April 17-18), Larijani said disarmament is more important for mankind today than ever because disrespect to it would entail many grave consequences for nations.
At a time when Western media and analysts are striving hard to divert nations’ attention to marginal and unnecessary issues, attention to nuclear weapons is an international must, said Ali Larijani, adding that moreover, the Tehran meeting can have good achievements for the world people in the fields of nuclear disarmament.
Meanwhile, Judiciary Chief’s International Advisor Javad Larijani told IRNA that presently, there are two movements visible worldwide in the general sense of the world: The move of the US and certain Western states, calling for nuclear weapons and mulling to initiate a big monopoly to use nuclear energy. On the other hand, certain countries, led by Iran, which believe that nuclear weapons should be dismantled and peaceful nuclear energy should be broadly put at the disposal of all.
Javad Larijani said perhaps the US did not imagine that Iran with 70 million population would be able to stand the country, backed by all the world’s policy makers. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is not powerful for operating many centrifuges, rather the country’s nuclear issue, supported by different countries, is important because Iran has stepped in a door that the US wants to close it before nations.
Lauding Iran’s “unique” role in encouraging other nations to acquire peaceful nuclear energy, Javad Larijani said the flag Iran has hoisted in the name of annihilating nuclear arms and expanding peaceful nuclear energy, will serve as a basis for a very good, beautiful, defendable and honorable move, which marks one of the big achievements of the Iranian government at the international level.
As for the Tehran meeting, Larijani said the session will be held to prove the fact that gone is the era of nuclear weapons and monopolization and the time has come for access to peaceful nuclear technology.
He commented on lthe atest stances of US State Secretary Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy and said their claims that nuclear weapons should not be discarded is not new and their global announcement of the claim will cost them dearly.
“I am confident that by the next five years, Iran will not only continue to broadly focus on its nuclear issue but the big states of the Middle East region will get access to peaceful nuclear technology as well,” said Javad Larijani.
Tehran will host a two-day international disarmament conference beginning Saturday to explore possible mechanisms for monitoring the disarmament process of the nuclear states using the capacity of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran's ambassador to Malaysia, Mohammad Mehdi Zahedi, said Friday the conference would also seek to examine the illegitimacy of nuclear weapons from the religious perspective.
Other aspects of the conference include the fulfillment of approaches for global nuclear disarmament, necessity for preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons worldwide and confrontation with the double standards adopted by certain countries that possessed atomic weapons regarding other nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member states, he said.
Zahedi said the conference would also mark the commencement of human and ideological efforts regarding the "forgotten goals of the NPT".
"Western states are expected to have a constructive, legal and appropriate interaction with the Tehran disarmament conference," he said.
Delegates from various countries, international organizations and non-govermental organizations are expected to attend.
Zahedi said that the idea of holding the conference had been planned long before as part of Iran's efforts to follow up the topic of the global nuclear disarmament.
"The existence of thousands of nuclear warheads in the world poses the gravest danger to international peace and security," he said, adding that expectations on the world community to totally eliminate nuclear weapons had not yet materialized.
"While over 40 years had passed since the inception of NPT in 1968, the non-materialization of nuclear disarmament has become a serious concern. Thus the conference also seeks to explore mechanisms for materializing the idea of a world free of nuclear weapons," he said.
He noted that there was a need to control the vertical proliferation of nuclear weapons, namely the development of new generations of such weapons.
Zahedi said the international community should try to make all countries, which had not yet joined the NPT, to do so and make sure that all countries placed their nuclear activities under the surveillance of the IAEA safeguards.
Touching on the double standards and discriminatory approaches practiced by some nuclear states towards NPT member states as well as states that had yet to join the treaty, he said such practices included the imposition of restrictions on the development of peaceful nuclear programs of member states and the promotion of nuclear cooperation among countries which had not joined the NPT, and the refusal to fulfill disarmament obligations while insisting on non-proliferation obligations that severely hurt the credibility and integrity of the treaty.
Zahedi also referred to the stalemate in creating a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.
He said the existence of nuclear weapons, by its very nature, was a cause of concern, irrespective of which country possessed them./end
