Iran’s Right to Share Civilian Nuclear Energy With Others
By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
Iran, like all other signatories to the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), enjoys the undeniable right to pursue peaceful projects and the enrichment of uranium to whatever degree and percentage is required for its civilian industries.
In other words, no country, especially the dangerously nuclear-armed US with its track of criminally dropping atomic bomb to slaughter in cold blood hundreds of the thousands of men, women, and children in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have any right to pressure, force, threaten or attack Iran to deprive it of this inalienable right.
At the same time, the Islamic Republic is resolved to cooperate with all other sovereign independent nations in various spheres, including the sharing of its peaceful nuclear achievements.
Recently, Iran, which is in the midst of talks with the US concerning the peaceful nature of its nuclear projects, signed an agreement with Venezuela to cooperate in the civilian nuclear field.
Iran’s Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, discussed in the Iranian capital the benefits of cooperation in this vital field of energy with Deputy Minister for Science and Technology of Venezuela, Alberto Quintero.
The meeting and the agreement may have raised unnecessary eyebrows in the West but have been hailed by member countries of the Free World determined to protect their rights by rejecting the illegal and extra territorial sanctions of the US and its comrades-in-crimes against humanity.
Venezuela, like Iran has a revolutionary leadership and is the target of the US’ economic and political terrorism in the form of sanctions and attempted coups, because of its fiercely independent stance in domestic and international affairs.
The Islamic Republic in line with its principled policy of supporting aggressed nations, has forged constructive ties with Venezuela, since Global Arrogance is a predatory force and profoundly evil, with its thirst for plunder of the resources of world countries, in addition to erasing their cultures, and turning into client states.
This warrants sovereign nations to cooperate and coordinate with each other in forming a global pole of resistance.
In view of these facts, Alberto Quintero expressed his thanks to Iran and told Mohammad Eslami: “Fortunately, we have established good cooperation, and with your help, we were able to launch the nuclear physics department at the Venezuelan University of Sciences. We are also trying to initiate masters and doctoral degrees in this field at the Venezuelan Centre for Scientific Research.”