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19 April 2009 First Vice-President of Iran Parviz
Davoudi said on Saturday that losing Washington’s old
interests in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution
was the main problem of the US with Iran not the
latter’s peaceful nuclear program.
Speaking to the Hong-Kong’s news network, Phoenix, the
Iranian official said that US had enormous interests
in Iran which were later stopped after the victory of
revolution in the country. Instead of adopting a
reasonable and logical approach towards Iran in the
post-revolution era, the US has pursued a hostile
attitude, Davoudi stated.
The Iranian official is in China to attend the Boao
Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2009 which is
to start officially on Saturday with a speech by the
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
The event is to be participated by more than 1,600
leaders, senior officials and experts from 40
countries.
Referring to the completion of the nuclear fuel cycle
by Iranian scientists, Davoudi said after mastering
the nuclear fuel cycle, Iran “believes that the issue
of its nuclear program has ended now and it is time to
discuss major international issues such as the global
nuclear disarmament within the framework of the
seven-party group.”
The term ‘seven-party group’ was originally used by
Chairman of Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) National
Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin
Boroujerdi on April 12 when the MP suggested that in
order to refer to the countries involved in the
nuclear talks with Iran, it would be better to use the
term ‘seven-party group.’
“From now on, instead of the Group 5+1 which is
involved in talks with Iran on the country’s peaceful
nuclear program, the term of '7-party group' should be
used," Boroujerdi told reporters.
The G5+1 consisted of the US, Britain, China, Russia
and France and Germany.
More in his interview with the Hong-Kong news network,
Davoudi said he believed that even the US had accepted
the fact now that the issue of Iran’s nuclear
activities is over and it is time to discuss other
major international developments. He added that
problems facing the poor countries could be considered
another major issue to be discussed by the seven-party
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