Analyst: No Justification to pressurize Iran over N-program

Pakistani political and defence analyst Dr. Shireen M. Mazari on Tuesday said that Iran is developing its nuclear program in accordance with international laws and the pressure on Iran to roll back its nuclear program is unjustified.

She said that pressure on Iran’s nuclear program is of political nature.

“It has no justification”, she believed.

The analyst expressing her views said that there is no evidence available that Iran has broken international laws while developing nuclear program.

Dr. Shireen M. Mazari said Iran is continuing its program under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the West is trying to destabilize the Islamic revolution and Iranian government by mounting pressure.

“US has itself broken the NPT”, the analyst said.

Iran being the signatory of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) can use nuclear energy for peaceful means, however, US and west have been suspecting on Iran’s nuclear program saying that Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb, which Iran has strongly denied.

Iran says its program to enrich uranium is aimed at producing electricity, and it has refused to halt the process, which can have civilian and military purposes.

The United Nations Security Council has already imposed three rounds of sanctions against Iran. In addition, several western nations have warned that the Islamic republic will face harsher sanctions if it fails to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Dr. Shireen M. Mazari was of the opinion that the idea of imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program is totally ridiculous. “It is purely political tool which has no legality”, she added.

Shireen M. Mazari is a scholar and commentator on Strategic Studies and Political Science from Pakistan. She was Director General of Institute of Strategic Studies, a research think-tank based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Currently she is working as Editor of English newspaper daily ‘The Nation’.


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