TEHRAN (FNA) - An Advisor to the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Javad Vaeedi said future generations are to judge Iran’s achievements in nuclear technology, describing the country’s progress in nuclear science as a “victory”.

“Under the circumstances present in the region and the world, Iran’s resistance on its stance for achieving nuclear energy is a wise and historical opportunity,” Vaeedi reiterated on Sunday addressing a gathering of university professors and teachers of Basij (volunteer forces) in the southern Fars province.
Referring to the position of the new U.S. administration on Iran, he pointed out that the U.S. has accepted Iran’s might and power and is aware that it can do nothing in the region without Iran’s help.
“Now there has been created a kind of thinking that believes (the U.S.) should resort to change (in its behavior) towards Iran,” he added.
The United States and Iran broke diplomatic relations in April 1980, after Iranian students seized the United States’ espionage center at its embassy in Tehran. The two countries have had tense relations ever since.
The two arch foes are mainly locked in a standoff over Tehran’s progress in the field of peaceful nuclear technology. The United States and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative document 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 provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.
Iran is under three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West’s calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment, saying the demand is politically tainted and illogical.
Iran has so far ruled out halting or limiting its nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives, saying that renouncing its rights under the NPT would encourage world powers to put further pressure on the country and would not lead to a change in the West’s hardline stance on Tehran.
Iran has also insisted that it would continue enriching uranium because it needs to provide fuel to a 300-megawatt light-water reactor it is building in the southwestern town of Darkhoveyn as well as its first nuclear power plant in the southern port city of Bushehr.