"Russia believes that every country, including Iran is entitled to peaceful nuclear energy," Medvedev said, addressing the Asia-Europe summit currently underway in Laotian capital, Vientiane.
The Russian prime minister also lashed out at the UN and the US for their unilateral sanctions on Iran on the false pretext that Iran is trying to produce nuclear weapon.
"The UN and the US have considered unilateral sanctions on Iran and they call for a halt in Iran's peaceful nuclear program," Medvedev said.
The 9th Asia-Europe summit opened in Laos, Vientiane on November 5.
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 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 IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
A 2008 report of the IAEA by the then Director-General, Mohamed ElBaradei, thanked Iran's honest cooperation in removing ambiguities about its past activities and confirmed that Iran has answered all the six outstanding questions of the world body about the nuclear material and activities that it had had in the past.
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev once again reiterated Iran's right to access to peaceful nuclear energy, and criticized the United Nations and the US for imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran.
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