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Fars News Agency, Iran
July 20 2013
Official: Iran, West Can Overcome Existing Economic, Trade Problems
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Tehran's Chamber of Commerce Yahya Al-e Eshaq
underlined that the grounds have been prepared for the removal of
differences between Iran and the western countries over economic
issues, reiterating that the West will benefit more than Iran from
lifting the sanctions.
`The conditions are set for the removal of the existing (economic)
problems between Iran and the West,' Al-e Eshaq told FNA, reiterating
that the western states and Iran's neighboring countries will benefit
the most from expanding trade ties with Iran.
He noted that the recent presidential election in Iran has prepared
the grounds for the West to remove the US-led sanctions against Tehran
and restore trade relations with the Islamic Republic.
Al-e Eshaq made the remarks after returning from his recent visit to
Armenia at the head of a trade delegation.
Earlier this week, Iranian and Armenian trade officials in a meeting
in Yerevan signed a trade agreement.
The trade agreement was signed by the chairmen of the chambers of
commerce of Tehran and Yerevan in the Armenian capital.
At the meeting, Head of Yerevan's Chamber of Commerce Robert
Haratounyan pointed to the current Iran-Armenia relations, and said
the Iranian delegation's visit to Armenia provides the two sides with
a good opportunity for boosting mutual cooperation between the two
countries.
Earlier this month, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi blasted
the US for imposing a new round of unilateral sanctions against
Tehran, and said the policy of sanctions would lead to nowhere.
`Americans' illogical measure is a continuation of their previous
approach,' Salehi told FNA, referring to the new embargos imposed by
Washington against Iran.
`Imposing such sanctions just means the use of the same approach of
threats,' he said, adding, `They have continued this method for 34
years and of course have reached nowhere thus far.'
Salehi advised the US officials to take lesson from the past and try
interaction with the Iranian nation.
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 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.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as
it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past
nuclear activities.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920429000338
From: Baghdasarian
July 20 2013
Official: Iran, West Can Overcome Existing Economic, Trade Problems
TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Tehran's Chamber of Commerce Yahya Al-e Eshaq
underlined that the grounds have been prepared for the removal of
differences between Iran and the western countries over economic
issues, reiterating that the West will benefit more than Iran from
lifting the sanctions.
`The conditions are set for the removal of the existing (economic)
problems between Iran and the West,' Al-e Eshaq told FNA, reiterating
that the western states and Iran's neighboring countries will benefit
the most from expanding trade ties with Iran.
He noted that the recent presidential election in Iran has prepared
the grounds for the West to remove the US-led sanctions against Tehran
and restore trade relations with the Islamic Republic.
Al-e Eshaq made the remarks after returning from his recent visit to
Armenia at the head of a trade delegation.
Earlier this week, Iranian and Armenian trade officials in a meeting
in Yerevan signed a trade agreement.
The trade agreement was signed by the chairmen of the chambers of
commerce of Tehran and Yerevan in the Armenian capital.
At the meeting, Head of Yerevan's Chamber of Commerce Robert
Haratounyan pointed to the current Iran-Armenia relations, and said
the Iranian delegation's visit to Armenia provides the two sides with
a good opportunity for boosting mutual cooperation between the two
countries.
Earlier this month, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi blasted
the US for imposing a new round of unilateral sanctions against
Tehran, and said the policy of sanctions would lead to nowhere.
`Americans' illogical measure is a continuation of their previous
approach,' Salehi told FNA, referring to the new embargos imposed by
Washington against Iran.
`Imposing such sanctions just means the use of the same approach of
threats,' he said, adding, `They have continued this method for 34
years and of course have reached nowhere thus far.'
Salehi advised the US officials to take lesson from the past and try
interaction with the Iranian nation.
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 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.
The Islamic Republic says that it considers its nuclear case closed as
it has come clean of IAEA's questions and suspicions about its past
nuclear activities.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920429000338
From: Baghdasarian