Threats to boost resistance of Iranian nation: Friday Prayer Leader

Tehran: Western threats against Islamic Republic, including sanctions, will boost Iranian nation’s resistance against enemy, Tehran’s interim Friday Prayer Leader, Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said here Friday.
“People care about enemy plots to break their national unity and to decrease their participation in the upcoming parliamentarian election (2012, March 2),” he said.
Tehran’s interim Friday Prayer Leader added that large presence of people on February 11 ceremonies which marked the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution showed their interest in their government and leadership.
“Ongoing regional Islamic Awakening will help to boost democracy and the rule of Islam; western threats including sanctions on Iranian oil will strengthen the nation’s commitment to resist hegemonic powers’ illogical demands; western nations and companies are first victims of sanctions against Tehran,” he underlined.
A parliamentary election will be held in Iran on March 2nd, 2012, to elect new members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Majlis. The week-long registration of candidates began on December 24th under the supervision of the Interior Ministry, as usual.
While US and EU have imposed sanctions on Iran’s oil, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi had warned that imposing sanctions on Iran’s oil industry would destabilize the world markets, adding that the sanctions policy is, thus, an irrational move.
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 the West’s demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing those sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians’ national resolve to continue the path. (KMW NEWS)