Iranian diplomat: Europe has turned out to be too dependent

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Perspectives of the Iranian nuclear problem, place and role of Iran in regional and international security, as well as influence of power centers on events around Iran, became discussion issues between Deputy Ambassador of Iran to Armenia Ali Akbar Jouhar and several Armenian experts at Noravank Scientific-Educational Center.

As a REGNUM correspondent informs, the Iranian diplomat rather fully presented matter and process of Iranian nuclear problems’ development, unambiguously stating that from the very beginning and till present, Iran has been openly cooperating with IAEA experts. “They visited all the facilities they wanted, and stressed in all their reports, Iran did not change peaceful character of its nuclear program,” mentioned Jouhar. “When we realized, the international community just ignores our interests – was Iranian ‘nuclear dossier’ worth to be considered by UN Security Council? – we decided to continue our research under IAEA auspices,” said the Iranian diplomat. Ali Akbar Jouhar counted those main arguments, used by certain countries against Iran and its nuclear program: “The USA maintain, that a state, which has big reserves of energy carriers, does not need nuclear power engineering. Second, they doubt of our intentions, reasoning from fact, we have not timely presented our report for IAEA. Third, Americans speak about possibility of developing by Iran its nuclear weapon as time goes by.” “All these arguments do not stand up to criticism – how may a developing state does not need science and development of new energy possibilities? Second, today, number of states is not IAEA member at all; the fact did not prevent them to develop both atomic science and finally their own nuclear weapon. At the same time, in contrast to Iran, they did not develop atomic science by themselves, using their own potential, but they received everything ‘in boxes’. Now, Israel possesses more then 200 nuclear-tipped warheads, not being IAEA member,” he stressed.

According to the deputy ambassador of Iran to Armenia, aim of Iran’s opponents in the question is to hamper Iran’s development, and weakening of this key country of region. “At present, there are four main points in Euro-Asian continent – Central Asia, Caucasus, Persian Gulf – Iraq, and Middle East.” “Iran always played stabilizing role in region, and without powerful and stable Iran crisis’s in Afghanistan and Iraq, unstable situation in Caucasus and Central Asia would have spread to the whole region, and have destabilized international situation on the whole”, believes the Iranian diplomat. "Iran was victim of Hussein regime, although it disputed American military invasion; it was victim of Taliban regime and al Qaeda, established with active participation of USA. “How has it turned out, Iran is now considered in Western policy as terrorist state?” asked Ali Akbar Jouhar himself. According to him, tasks of geopolitical scale are pursued by such position of Western states, including ones of hampering international positions and influence of China and Russia. “We enabled Europe to solve the problem, fully cooperating with us, but Europe turned out to be too dependent and uncoordinated. Now, those countries, which somehow relied on Europe, may really evaluate its weight and abilities,” he stated. Mentioning Russian position, Ali Akbar Jouhar stressed, Iranian side expected somewhat more from Moscow, while UN Security Council was resolving. “Of course, Russia and China played positive role in the process, some work was done by them, and resolution became different one, comparing with USA initial draft. But we expected more”, he stated. Mentioning perspectives of establishing of joint consortium with Russian side to enrich uranium, Jouhar informed, talks on the problem continue. “President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated at UNO, Iranian side is ready to found international consortium in its territory with participation of western companies,” he reminded. “Iran and Russia have to evaluate and realize themselves their role and interests in international scene, as well as that positive role, played by Iran to secure stability and security in region,” he stated. “Now, our relations with Russia and China develop in positive direction, and these both countries insist on solution of Iranian nuclear problem in the framework of IAEA,” reminded the Iranian diplomat.