“The US must not wait for a change in the Islamic Republic’s policies on the nuclear program, since Iran has not and will not back down on issues tied to its national interests,” Evaz Heidarpour, a member of the Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Thursday.
The United States, Israel, and some of their allies accuse Iran of potentially pursuing non-civilian objectives under the cover of its nuclear energy program.
Washington has used the allegation, which Tehran fiercely denies, as a pretext to impose and push for a series of unilateral and international sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Contrary to Washington’s claims, Heidarpour added, the US-engineered sanctions against Iran have nothing to do with Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
“The US has imposed the sanctions to humiliate the Iranian nation,” he said.
The senior Iranian lawmaker went on to say that the US has no other choice but to recognize the rights of the Iranian nation and revise its policies toward Tehran.
“Iran is experiencing the most severe kinds of sanctions which cannot be intensified any further; so it can be said that the sanctions have no effective impact on Iran’s economy.”
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