IRNA
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Flashback:
Why have both the US and the UK have given Iran the materials
it needs to go nuclear?
Iran and US signed an agreement in 1978 which allowed Tehran
to seek nuclear technology in order to meet its future energy
demands but no one now talks about the agreement, said a political
science professor on Tuesday.
Addressing an international conference of world geologists in
this ancient city, central Iran, Professor of Political Geography
and Geopolitics Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh said it was the US that encouraged
Iran to develop nuclear energy.
"At that time, Americans had predicted that Iran's population
would reach 100 million by 2025 and this would face the country
with an energy crisis," said the professor who is also head
of the London-based research foundation, 'Eurosevic Institute'.
He said as the then US officials believed that Tehran would be
deprived of its forex incomes after consuming all its fossil energy
for domestic uses, they (Americans) proposed the former regime
of the defunct Shah to launch a nuclear program.
"The only thing which has changed since then in Iran is
the country's political system," said the professor adding,
"And this is a change that has also changed US strategy towards
the country." Mojtahedzadeh regretted that no one has ever
mentioned the issue oncerning the 1978 agreement between Iran
and the US.
"There was an agreement between Iran and US but it has been
mentioned nowhere," he said.
Criticizing Washington's repeated accusations against Iran that
the country's nuclear program was for military purposes, the professor
said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly
confirmed that Iran has not violated any laws or regulations of
the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Referring to Washington's bid to portray Iran as a defiant country,
Mojtahedzadeh said, "This is a clear example of complete
lawlessness."
Commenting on referral of Iran nuclear case to the United Nations
Security Council, the professor said they took the case to the
council "because they want to convict a Muslim state."
The US and its European allies are to punish Iran for being not
guilty, complained the professor.
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