Iranophobia Attempts Doomed to Fail: DM
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s defense minister slammed as doomed the attempts to isolate Iran from the world, saying the moves to spread Iranophobia will lead nowhere either.
“The cruel sanctions, as well as the attempts for isolation of Iran, Islamophobia, Shiite-phobia and Iranophobia are doomed to failure,” Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan said in an academic conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
Iran has now “turned into the mightiest country in the region and is seen among the world’s most influential countries amid the complicated global equations,” the minister stressed.
Pointing to the nuclear talks between Tehran and six major world powers, Dehqan said Iran will undoubtedly emerge victorious in the diplomatic negotiations over its peaceful nuclear program.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) wrapped up seven days of intensive nuclear talks in Vienna on November 24 without securing a long-awaited comprehensive deal.
They decided to extend talks on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program for seven more months.
On November 24, 2013, Iran and the G5+1 (alternatively known as the P5+1 or E3+3) signed an interim nuclear deal in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The Geneva deal (the Joint Plan of Action) came into effect in January and expired in July, when the parties decided to extend negotiations until November 24 in the hope of clinching a final deal that would end a decade of impasse over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear energy program.
