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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “Iran’s continued independence at a time of great upheaval in the Arab world can only mean bad news for American hegemony and Western hegemony over this region,” said Mohammad Marandi, Professor at the University of Tehran, in a Saturday interview.
“This sort of pressure not only creates hatred among ordinary Iranians for Western regimes and distrust towards the Western media but also it is a sign to other countries in the region that despite the immense propaganda and severe sanctions imposed by these Western powers Iran is still standing on its feet,” he added.
Iran’s resistance against pressures delivers a message to the regional nations that they too can pursue the same course and achieve independence from Western powers, the analyst pointed out.
Marandi described the West’s anti-Iran campaign as “a sign of a dying empire” against the backdrop of the exacerbating social and economic crises in the Western world and insisted that the West’s attempts to overthrow the Islamic Republic will definitely end in failure.
The United States and its allies have been accusing Iran of pursuing a military nuclear program, and have used the allegation to push for four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions on the Islamic Republic and to take more unilateral measures against the country.
Iran has categorically refuted the Western allegation, saying that as a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to acquire and develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The EU agreed on January 23 to ban oil imports from Tehran, freeze the assets of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) across the EU, and ban the sales of grains, diamonds, gold, and other precious metals to the country.
The EU sanctions came after US President Barack Obama signed into law fresh unilateral economic sanctions against the CBI in an apparent bid to punish foreign companies and banks that do business with the Iranian financial institution.
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