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Tehran (FNA)- The fifth summit of the Group of BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa) countries lashed out at the US-led West for
its hostile and unilateral policies against Iran, and called on the western
powers to try talks with Tehran over the latter's nuclear program.
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The fifth BRICS summit opened in Durban, South Africa on Tuesday.
"We are concerned about threats of military action as well as unilateral
sanctions, and hope that all outstanding issues relating to Iran's nuclear
program will be resolved through discussions and diplomatic means,"
BRICS leaders said in a declaration issued at the end of their two-day summit
in Durban on Wednesday.
"We believe there is no alternative to a negotiated solution to the
Iranian nuclear issue, and recognize Iran's right to peaceful uses of nuclear
energy consistent with its international obligations," they added.
Iran has repeatedly expressed its strong opposition to any production,
possession or use of nuclear weapons, saying such arms have no place in the
Islamic Republic's nuclear doctrine.
On February 22, 2012, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah
Seyed Ali Khamenei said Iran considers the pursuit and possession of nuclear
weapons "a grave sin" from every logical, religious and theoretical
standpoint.
Earlier this month, a senior Iranian diplomat underlined that Iran has
serious and full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) since its nuclear activities are all transparent and it has nothing to
hide.
"We are after nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and that is
completely within the framework of our legal and legitimate rights and that
is why we are insisting on this legitimate right, because our people should
be able to use this technology for energy and medical purposes," Iran's
Envoy to Paris Ali Ahani said.
"We have shown our good intention and the necessary transparency to the
public opinion in a bid to substantiate that our program has no military
dimension," Ahani told Voice of Russia.
He pointed to Iran's serious cooperation with the IAEA, and added that the UN
nuclear watchdog has had an unprecedented number of inspections of Iran's
nuclear facilities, including 100 snap inspections.
"We are fully transparent and have nothing to hide," the Iranian
diplomat said.
The latest report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency chief on
Iran acknowledges that Tehran is conducting its uranium enrichment activities
successfully and under the supervision of the UN nuclear watchdog's
inspectors.
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 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.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has
come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear
activities.
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. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the
most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium
enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
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