Sanctions beneficial to Iran, says envoy

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“The anti-Iran sanctions led the country to stand on its own feet,” Hosseinpour said in an interview with a Turkish newspaper on Monday.

Referring to the Western sanctions imposed against Iran over unfounded allegations about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy programme, Hosseinpour said these measures represent an opportunity for Iran to flourish.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear programme, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations.

Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear programme 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 entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

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

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 the other third-world countries. — Fars News Agency.