BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 27. Pressure on Iran is growing, but despite this, the country's progress in the nuclear and military sectors is also growing, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said, Trend reports.
He made the remark during the opening ceremony of the 6th Exhibition of Export Potential of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to him, Iran's military doctrine does not envision the acquisition of nuclear weapons. This is not due to international norms and IAEA rules, but a fatwa from Iran's Supreme Leader.
The Iranian president stated that Iran uses nuclear technology in industry, petrochemicals, and other fields and will continue to do so.
"The exhibition organized today shows that the sanctions imposed will not affect Iran and that sanctions will never bear results in this country at the will of the Iranian people," he said.
Additionally, it should be noted that the four-day Iran Expo exhibition kicked off today in Iran. It is reported that 2,000 people from 80 countries participated in the exhibition. Through this exhibition, Iran intends to increase the number of countries to which it exports products and showcase the successes achieved by large industrial enterprises and start-up companies.
To note, the Comprehensive Plan of Joint Action on Iran's nuclear program was implemented between Iran and the P5+1 group (the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) in January 2016. The US announced in May 2018 that it was withdrawing from the plan and imposed sanctions on Iran in November of the same year. Iran has announced that there will be no restrictions on the Iran nuclear deal in 2020.
In late 2020, the Iranian parliament adopted a strategic plan to counter the sanctions, citing the non-fulfillment of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed between Iran and six countries and the imposition of sanctions on Iran.
Based on the decision of the Iranian parliament, as of February 23, Iran stopped the implementation of additional measures and an additional protocol included in the nuclear deal. As a consequence, the monitoring mechanism of the IAEA was reduced by 20–30 percent.
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