Member of the parliament's Cultural Commission Seyed Jalal Yahyazadeh said that the EU-led sanctions are continuation of enemies' economic pressures to bring our nation to its knee.
Speaking to the Islamic republic news agency on Friday, the lawmaker stressed that the EU's recent decision indicates that the bloc has surrendered to the US pressures.
He said the main reason behind imposing sanctions against Iran over its nuclear issue is our nation refusing to surrender itself and resisting against enemies.
The EU foreign ministers on Monday agreed on a new round of sanctions against Iran, in spite of a UN warning against the humanitarian ramifications of the previous bans.
Iran blasted the sanctions as a move violating the principles of human rights, and said Iran will protest against embargos through legal channels.
Earlier this week, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei strongly rejected the West's claims that the growing pressures on Iran is for Tehran's refusal to return to the negotiation table, describing the allegations as smear campaign.
Addressing a group of Iranian people in the country's Northeastern province on North Khorassan on Tuesday, the Leader noted the western powers' media hype about Iran, and said the western claims that Iran has left talks and negotiations is "propaganda fraud and smear campaign".
"The actual goal of those pursuing such a political propaganda formula is (making) the Iranian nation's surrender at the negotiation table," the Leader said, and addressing the western powers, added, "But, you are too small to bring the struggling, insightful and informed Iranian nation to its knees."
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.
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The unilateral sanctions against Tehran by the European Union are not a new development, a senior Iranian lawmaker said, and stated that the West is imposing pressure on the Iranian people for their resistance against enemies.
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