Iran, India Relations Historical

NEW DELHI (NNN-IRNA) – Iran and India relations is historical and cultural and the two countries share similar languages, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on Thursday.

He made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian students residing in New Delhi.

"Many countries in the world are keen to expand relations with Tehran because of its resistance toward world powersˈ illegal demands and the progress it has made in various fields; Islamic Revolution of Iran during the past three decades has passed several difficult days and it will pass these days too."

Larijani noted that the western statesˈ approach in talks with Iran has always been deceptive but Tehran is committed to progress forward, based on international rules and regulations.

In the meantime, speaking in a press conference in New Delhi, the Speaker added that emerging powers like India should be vigilant towards dominant powersˈ greed for oil.

"Some countries are seeking to dominate the world oil throats; dominant powers do not allow emerging powers to secure their energy security gorge by diversifying their sources," Larijani said.

Pointing to the outside pressures upon India to break ties with Tehran, he added that there would be no deadlock in bilateral relations between the two nations which are committed to broadening their mutual cooperation.

"There were constructive discussions between Iranian delegation and Indian officials on methods of payment of in lieu of the volume of crude oil Iran has already exported to India," Larijani said.

The Speaker underlined the two countriesˈ historical ties, adding that Iran and India have a common stance on regional and international issues.

The EU enforced a set of oil embargos against Iran on Jul 1. The 27-nation bloc, which accounted for around 18 percent of Iranˈs oil exports, said that all contracts for importing Iranian oil should be terminated from that date.

Economic and oil experts had earlier warned that the oil ban against Tehran would inflict huge losses on the entire world energy market, specially in Europe, where several EU members are going bankrupt and should soon announce economic bankruptcy.

Iran is the second largest OPEC oil producer, producing about 4 million barrels of oil per day. The countryˈs recoverable oil reserves are estimated at more than 137 billion barrels, or 12 percent of the worldˈs overall reserves.

Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear programme, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only.

Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.

Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and the west embargos for turning down their calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.

Tehran has dismissed the Westˈs demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanction and pressures merely consolidate Iraniansˈ national resolve to continue the path.

Iran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEAˈs) questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities. -- NNN-IRNA