Iranˈs Power, Cause Of Enemiesˈ Retreat: Deputy Interior Min.

Tehran, March 16, IRNA -- Islamic Republic’s power forced enemies to retreat from their illegal demands, Deputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Solat Mortazavi said on Friday. He made the remarks in his lecture before Friday prayersˈ sermons in grand mosque of Boumehen town in southern Tehran. “Arrogant powers impose sanctions and pressures on independent nations to force them to surrender, but despite their longstanding efforts to change the world geopolitics and international equations in favor of their interests, ongoing waves of Islamic awakening in the Muslim world proved that nations are thirsty for justice and will not accept their imposed disciplines,” Mortazavi said. Mortazavi pointed to the popular uprisings in every corners of Muslim world, including Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and other places and asserted that nations have been awakened and are committed to campaign for their freedom and independence. “Iranian nation knows well that enemy excuses for pressuring Tehran will not end even if Tehran withdraws from its legal rights; enemies want Muslim nations, including Iran, backward, but Tehranˈs breakthroughs in various fields of science proved that enemy plots are doomed to failure,” he said. It should be pointed out that the last round of the fresh talks between Tehran and the Group 5+1(permanent members of UN Security Council plus Germany) ended in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on February 27. During the talks Iran and the world powers agreed to hold an experts meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 17-18 and then continue their talks at the level of their top negotiators in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on April 5-6. Before Almaty talks, Iran and the G5+1 have already held three rounds of negotiations in Geneva, two rounds in Istanbul, one round in Baghdad and one round in Moscow. The last round of talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 was held in Moscow in June. 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 sanctions and the western embargos 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 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities./end