“The US is fearful of the change of the Islamic world into a big power,” Mehmanparast said in a meeting in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Thursday.
The Iranian official said that the US has no problem with Tehran’s nuclear energy program but increases pressure and sanctions on the country because it is afraid of a powerful Islamic world.
Mehmanparast said that global arrogance has harbored strong animosity towards Iran since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in the country.
He said that arrogant powers have threatened Iran in different forms and put the country under various pressures, adding they will not, however, launch an attack against the Islamic Republic as the move will cost them dearly.
He also said that Washington is doing its utmost to undermine the wave of the Islamic Awakening in Muslim countries.
The United States, Israel and some of their allies have falsely accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
The US and certain other countries have imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic over the allegation.
Iran has vehemently rejected the allegations against its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, it is entitled to use nuclear technology for peaceful objectives.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says the United States dreads the turning of the Islamic world into a major global power.
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