Iran will not produce nuclear weapons: envoy
He made the remark in an exclusive interview with the Italian news agency, ANSA.
The Iranian diplomat dismissed the ongoing dispute on Iran's nuclear activities, adding that the nuclear research currently underway is towards non-military goals and left out the possibility of production of atomic bomb.
Turning to the prospect of revision of relations between Muslims and Catholics and Pope Benedict XVI and the call for solving conflicts between religions, he criticized the U.S. foreign policy and said that Iran does not intend to develop atomic bomb. Concerning relations between Muslims and Christians at the threshold of Pope's visit to Turkey following his speech delivered at the German Regensburg University, he referred to commonalities of Islam and Christianity and said, "It will be impossible to be considered as Muslims, unless Christ (PBUH) is accepted and highly respected, similar to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)."
The Iranian ambassador underlined, "The U.S. believe that Iran is the major impediment in the way of new world geopolitical developments, while it is ignorant that the current problems are rooted in its own foreign policy principles." Zohrevand pointed to Iraq as an example of the U.S. wrong policy, saying that the whole world is now aware of the associated problems encountering the U.S.
"The U.S. failure to establish democracy in Iraq has to do with the U.S. political dreams and underestimation of such a move," said Zohrevand.
The ambassador said that Europe's silence on the disasters taking place in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons as well as killing of civilian people in Iraq and Afghanistan, is surprising.