Senior MP reiterates call for removal of sanctions, recognition of Iran's nuclear rights

Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi once again underlined that removal of sanctions and recognition of Iran's nuclear rights are the two main keys to end the standoff between Tehran and the West. “During the talks with the Group5+1(the US, Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany), Iran called for the recognition of its nuclear rights and the lifting of sanctions (against the country). We should wait for the outcome of these negotiations,” Boroujerdi said on Saturday. Iran and the six world powers agreed in their third session of talks on October 15 to follow up on the nuclear negotiations on November 7 and 8. At the end of the negotiations, EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton hailed the nuclear negotiations as the “most detailed” and most “substantive” ones ever held between the two sides. 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 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. 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. Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.