“Regarding the international community’s strong demand for global denuclearization, a new universal move should be launched to disarm nuclear powers, particularly the United States,” said Saeed Jalili in a Sunday meeting with former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tehran.
He added that Iran and Japan share certain interests and positions, which have laid the ground for the expansion of mutual relations.
The SNSC secretary pointed to Iran’s technical achievements regarding the peaceful use of nuclear energy, including the production of fuel for Tehran’s Research Reactor, and expressed the country’s readiness to cooperate with Japan in the fields of nuclear safety.
Yukio, who is a senior diplomatic adviser to Japan’s ruling Democratic Party, lauded Iran’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and called for the expansion of relations with Tehran.
Washington and some of its allies baselessly claim that Iran’s nuclear energy activities include a drive towards an atomic weapons capability and, based on such an allegation, have imposed sanctions on Tehran.
Iran has repeatedly refuted the Western allegations, arguing that as a member of the IAEA and a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful objectives.
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