"If Iran's nuclear case comes out of its fake political shell and is viewed in its legal and technical framework, the path will be paved for its solution once and all," Head of the parliament's Research Center Kazzem Jalali said in a meeting with the former Head of Sweden's International Peace Research Institute here in Tehran on Wednesday.
He criticized the US and the West's double-standards vis-à-vis Iran's nuclear program, and said due to the radical and inhuman policies of the US against the Iranian nation in the last 30 years, the wall of mistrust is still high and has even spread to the entire Middle East region.
The Former Head of Sweden's International Peace Research Institute, for his part, said that in the talks between Iran and the Group 5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany), the two sides have made progress and the remaining ambiguities should be removed through negotiations.
Washington and its European 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 and the western embargos for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
After the UN Security Council ratified a sanctions resolution against Iran on June 9, 2010, the United States and the European Union imposed further unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, mostly targeting the country's energy and banking sectors.
Tehran has always dismissed West's pressures and stressed that sanctions and embargos merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path of progress.
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