(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Khatami reiterated that Iran has never left the negotiating table, and that the enemy should know that the Iranians will not also retreat from their definite rights and it will not bend towards the powersˈ illegal demands.
ˈIranian nation has learned how to deal with problems and pressures. The enemyˈs efforts to undermine determination of Iranians are aslo doomed to fail; many of the sanctions against Iran are symbolic and without any real effect on economy.ˈ
The clergyman added that the Iranian nation has not forgotten the European countriesˈ support for former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, during the (1980-88) Iraqi-imposed war against Iran and the nation have similar hatred towards the EU because of its unilateral embargos on Iran, following the US policies.
ˈWhile the EU has been involved in many wars against other countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the war in Algeria and many other places around the world over past decade, donating 2012 Nobel peace prize to the European Union is ridiculous.ˈ
It is important to know that 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 and the western embargos for turning down the Westˈs calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment for peaceful and medical purposes.
Tehran has dismissed the Westˈs demand as politically-motivated and irrational, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iraniansˈ national resolve to continue to its path.
Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehranˈs nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a global power and a role model for the other third-world countries.
In case of awarding the Noble Peace Prize to the EU, it should be noted that The Nobel Peace Prize has been discredited by their decision to give the award to the EU.
When the concept of the Nobel Peace Prize was first devised, it could hardly have been thought that over 100 years later it would be awarded so cynically and with such little regard to the reality of what damage the European Union has caused.
The EU is not a union that has contributed to peace, but an uneasy alliance of member-states eating and stealing from the same trough. It is without honour either in concept or in delivery. The fallout from the forced adoption of the single currency by member- states has created huge tensions, which will continue a pattern of social unrest.
This prize heaps much discredit on those who have awarded it, matched by those who receive it.
The Nobel Committee announced that the EU had won the award last Friday, saying the 55-year-old organization had helped transform Europe ˈfrom a continent of wars to a continent of peaceˈ in the decades since World War Two.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the six Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, economics, and Literature. Since 1901, it has been awarded annually (with some exceptions) to those who have ˈdone the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.ˈ
As per Alfred Nobelˈs will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a 5-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 1990, the prize is awarded on December 10 in Oslo City Hall every year. The prize was formerly awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law (1947–89), the Norwegian Nobel Institute (1905–46) and the Parliament (1901–04).
Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has for most of its history been the subject of controversies.
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