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12-10-2010, 11:26 PM
Iran urges Ban, UNSC to condemn assassination of its scientists
Politics 12/11/2010 9:24:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 (KUNA) -- Iran late Friday urged the international community to condemn the terrorist attacks that targeted two of its "prominent physicists," and wondered if it is now permissible to use "terrorist acts" to prevent the developing world from enhancing its development.
In identical letters to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Security Council President US Ambassador Susan Rice and General Assembly President Joseph Deiss, Iranian UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee condemned the "terrorist attacks" in Tehran late last month against Iranian "prominent physicists" - Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi Davani - just because they were engaged in Iran's "peaceful nuclear programme." "You as the Secretary-General, and the Security Council as well, are expected to uphold your responsibilities in condemning these inhumane terrorist acts and to take effective steps toward elimination of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations," Khazaee urged.
He said that based on the information collected by the relevant Iranian security authorities, "certain quarters which have spared no efforts in depriving the Islamic Republic of Iran from its inalienable right to peaceful nuclear energy are behind the attacks." He quoted those same circles as saying that those attacks "have been carried out as part of the efforts to disrupt Iran's peaceful nuclear programme," since they assume that diplomacy alone would not be enough for that purpose.
"Now, the question is whether we are entering an era where resorting to all unlawful and coercive measures, even terrorist acts, to prevent developing nations from exercising their right to development, including peaceful uses of nuclear energy, to improve their socio-economic conditions are allowed?" he wondered.
Khazaee stressed that Iran "would not compromise over its inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and any kind of political and economic pressures or terrorist attacks targeting the Iranian nuclear scientists, could not prevent our nation from exercising this right." (end) sj.rk KUNA 110924 Dec 10NNNN
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2130478&Language=en
Politics 12/11/2010 9:24:00 AM
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 (KUNA) -- Iran late Friday urged the international community to condemn the terrorist attacks that targeted two of its "prominent physicists," and wondered if it is now permissible to use "terrorist acts" to prevent the developing world from enhancing its development.
In identical letters to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Security Council President US Ambassador Susan Rice and General Assembly President Joseph Deiss, Iranian UN Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee condemned the "terrorist attacks" in Tehran late last month against Iranian "prominent physicists" - Majid Shahriari and Fereydoun Abbasi Davani - just because they were engaged in Iran's "peaceful nuclear programme." "You as the Secretary-General, and the Security Council as well, are expected to uphold your responsibilities in condemning these inhumane terrorist acts and to take effective steps toward elimination of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations," Khazaee urged.
He said that based on the information collected by the relevant Iranian security authorities, "certain quarters which have spared no efforts in depriving the Islamic Republic of Iran from its inalienable right to peaceful nuclear energy are behind the attacks." He quoted those same circles as saying that those attacks "have been carried out as part of the efforts to disrupt Iran's peaceful nuclear programme," since they assume that diplomacy alone would not be enough for that purpose.
"Now, the question is whether we are entering an era where resorting to all unlawful and coercive measures, even terrorist acts, to prevent developing nations from exercising their right to development, including peaceful uses of nuclear energy, to improve their socio-economic conditions are allowed?" he wondered.
Khazaee stressed that Iran "would not compromise over its inalienable right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes and any kind of political and economic pressures or terrorist attacks targeting the Iranian nuclear scientists, could not prevent our nation from exercising this right." (end) sj.rk KUNA 110924 Dec 10NNNN
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2130478&Language=en