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One can not impede scientific progress.
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
Iranians possess delicate characteristics. They introduce their merits, which are extremely attractive to whole the world.
Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.
America was free to sever its ties with Iran, but it remains Iran's decision to re-establish relations with America.
You know we were at a stage where we had trouble every day, we had bombs every day, it was on the world news most days, unfortunately we recall that.
You have to work extremely hard in education programmes to explain and to try to get people to settle in and to assist them.
You can't have it both ways, you can maybe for a while but you can't be a democrat and having a paramilitary organisation and that's the difficulty.
Yes we had really a very open position on citizenship's rights, for the simple reason it didn't arise very much because there was nobody actually coming in.
Yes they're having some difficulties trying to achieve as much as they can as quickly as they can. By the way some of the 10 that joined now have had similar difficulties.
While we're militarily neutral in every sense - closing off a facility which we always gave to a friendly country when all the other countries in Europe that were taking an opposing view also gave facilities would have been an extreme view and one we would not do against a friendly country.
When you have more cultures and more religions and some people who obviously are not very tolerant and want to find arguments and say that you're taking our jobs, you're taking our houses and exaggerate things.
When we joined the European Union we were less than 60% of the GDP of the European Union. I think today we're something like 115% of it. We've had emigration for every year that we ever had.
What we're now stating if somebody is in here for three of the four years before a child is born then they can get citizenship.
What the intergovernmental conference has been doing, what's the convention was doing, which was - first of all I think the convention was enormous.