Mehman-Parast said that the US and the Zionist policy makers consider Iran as engine of regional movements and resistance, therefore, they do their utmost to put pressure on Iran and weaken its influence on the regional nations.
He made the remarks to a Forum titled "Campaign against Zionism" in Kerman Islamic Azad University on Wednesday.
Mehman-Parast said that the resistance of Iranian nation will help them go ahead with regional cooperation and boost immunity.
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 (UNSC) 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 IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast stressed Iran's pivotal role in the region, and said enemies' pressures against the country are aimed at weakening Tehran's influence on the regional states.
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