Withstanding oppression a prelude to world peace: Iranian security chief
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN – Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that peace will not be established in the world unless nations withstand global “arrogance and dictatorship”.

Jalili made the remarks on Tuesday while addressing a group of university professors and political analysts in Sasakawa Peace Foundation, a Tokyo-based think tank.

He described the rule of the military powers over the world as “destructive,” saying that it is not acceptable that veto right be vested in certain countries enabling them to regulate world order just because they are more powerful in terms of military capabilities.

The current order of international relations is unfair and does not guarantee lasting peace in the world because a peace which is enforced through military force is not durable, he stated.

He went on to say that the war in Iraq which was waged by the hegemonic powers on the pretext that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, was an irrational act which led to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

“Which international body should deal with this great treachery? The UN Security Council is monopolized by the same oppressive powers,” he commented.

The Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty calls for a total nuclear disarmament but the Security Council has not issued even one single resolution requiring the countries which possess nuclear weapons to annihilate them, he stated.

He asked, “Why doesn’t the Security Council penalize the Zionist regime that has access to weapons of mass destruction.”

Strict observance of NPT

During his meeting with the Speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives, Takahiro Yokomichi, on Tuesday, Jalili said a strict implementation of the NPT is the only guarantee to prevent nuclear disasters like the one befell Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.

The same countries which are testing the new generations of atomic arms are attempting to prevent others from gaining access to nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes, he said.

Elsewhere in his talks, he called for an expansion of Iran-Japan parliamentary relations.

Takahiro Yokomichi, for his party, highlighted the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Middle East, saying that Iran-Japan cooperation to restore Afghanistan’s infrastructures symbolizes positive bilateral collaboration aimed at consolidating security and stability in the region.

He also put stress on the need to strengthen bilateral ties especially in the energy-related fields

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