"In 1391 (the last Iranian year which ended on March 20) the nuclear industry could stabilize sustainable conditions in all its parts by utilizing the capabilities acquired in the previous years and consistent management as well as focusing on the specified goals," Abbasi said, addressing a ceremony to commemorate the national day of the nuclear technology in Tehran on Tuesday.
"The nuclear industry focused its activities on the four pivots of fuel cycle, production advancement technologies, energy production and radiation applications (in the last Iranian year), and achieved desirable results," he added.
'The National Day of the Nuclear Technology' ceremony is also attended by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and several other high-ranking officials.
In April 2006, President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had succeeded in completing the nuclear fuel production cycle at laboratory scale, which made Iran one of the world's 9 established nuclear states. Following the event, April 9 was named as the day of nuclear technology.
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 three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's illegitimate 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.
