Iran Blasts West for nonstop Attempts to Bar Nations' Scientific Progress

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed the West for its nonstop attempts to block other countries' scientific progress, saying that the western countries are extremely worried and fearful of the other nations' advancement in different fields, especially acquisition of the civilian nuclear technology. "By depriving certain countries like Iran of rising nuclear technology, the West is blocking other nations' path to science and knowledge," President Ahmadinejad said, address Lebanese educational and student at Beirut University on Thursday. "They develop nuclear technology themselves, but they want to deprive us of this technology," he added.

The Iranian chief executive pointed out that knowledge, including nuclear technology, can bring welfare to nations but the West associate nuclear know-how with bombs when it comes to nuclear activities of other countries. The US led West charge Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the envelop of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to give power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would finally run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitle every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is currently under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to provide up its right of uranium enrichment. Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically stained and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national decide to continue the path. Political observer believe that the United States has stay at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the free and home grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the possible to turn into a world power and a role model for other third-world countries