“Yet the Zionist State refuses, point blank, to allow even it's closest friend America inspect its nuclear facilities,” she said in an interview with IRNA.
“Iran has no history of attacking or invading its neighbours, unlike Israel which has been on a permanent war-footing since its bloody inception,” she added.
At the end of the latest round of inconclusive talks on Saturday, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili warned that talks should be “based on common logic” and not to be “turned into a dictation.”
Ridley said that Western leaders, led by the US, have spent nearly a decade trying to isolate Iran from the world by imposing sanctions and threatening war, but questioned the net effect.
“Iran, like Cuba, has learned to develop and evolve around the sanctions and, again like Cuba, has discovered that far from being isolated it has found new friends in new places,” she said
With regard to the continuing dispute, the journalist suggested that the best way forward for Iran is to “continue what it is doing and develop the positive friendships it already has while continuing to hold out the olive branch to the rest of the West.”
“Their economies are in a bad way and while Iran has endured and survived economic hardships because of trade embargoes, it is already mentally in a stronger position,” she said.
“The key thing to remember is that the majority of people do not see Iran as a threat unlike their governments who should not underestimate the power of those who put them in power in the first place.”
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