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Iran Radio Says Condoleezza Rice Will Fail Even With China, Russia Support

Posted on: Friday, 14 October 2005, 09:01 CDT

Text of unattributed commentary by Iranian radio on 14 October

America's Secretary of State [Condoleezza] Rice arrive in France on the second leg of her tour of Asia and Europe. She is scheduled to visit Russia and Britain later. Her tour is in fact an attempt by America to secure the support of these countries in the forthcoming session of the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] Board of Governors, which is planning to discuss Iran's peaceful nuclear programmes among some other issues.

America is pursuing a mission to compel Iran give up its legal rights by tightening the diplomatic noose, as it thinks, around our country at the Board of Governors' meeting in the [Iranian] months of Aban [24 November]. In other words, it is trying to make Iran despair of any assistance from its allies and friends and submits to the tyrannical conditions proposed by the European states for the resumption of nuclear negotiations. This is taking place at a time when Iran has rejected any preconditions for the resumption of talks.

In connection with Iran's nuclear policy, the West has paid very little attention to the fact that the main support for Iran's nuclear policy comes not from its foreign allies but from the two fundamental principles of the NPT and the nation's decisive backing for this right. Here, diplomacy plays only the role of backing our country's principled policy.

We therefore conclude that despite being grateful to the friendly allies such as China and Russia for their support, it must be stressed that national resolve is the backing for the Islamic Republic of Iran's firm stance over the nuclear issue. And the American secretary of state must realize that her shuttle diplomacy - with the backing of other Western states - in the influential countries cannot undermine our national determination to fully acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Their failure stems from their refusal to pay any attention to the realities [in Iran].

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

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