Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, in his weekly press briefing in Tehran on Tuesday said Iran, as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has the inalienable right to enrich uranium to 20% purity as part of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities for meeting the country's needs.

According to IRIB, he said the fuel required for the Tehran University Medical Research Reactor is only for humanitarian purposes for production of radio-medicine and isotope for patients. The Foreign Ministry Spokesman deplored that the other side instead of resolving a purely technical issue has politicized it despite the fact that the reactor was built by the US in Tehran before the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and Washington is committed to supply fuel for it. He dismissed the hue and cry raised by the certain regimes in the West on Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, saying that a few countries are trying to impose their will as that of the international community.

On maneuverings by the US and France to force the UN Security Council to issue another illegal resolution against the Islamic Iran, Mehmanparast said any new resolution will not lead to a remedy for the impasse created by the westerners and that their companies will be the main losers. He underlined that fuel production and swap are two different issues, and made it clear that the regimes who think they can pressure Iran and the Iranians to retreat even an inch from the inalienable rights of the nation, are making a grave mistake. The Foreign Ministry Spokesman advised the Islamic Republic of Iran's ill-wishers to reflect on the fact that their policies of the past 31 years have brought them nothing but failure. On the recent visit to Iraq by US Vice-President Joe Biden and attempts by the American ambassador in Baghdad to meddle in Iraqi affairs, Mehmanparast said US attempts to influence the forthcoming parliamentary polls is in total contradiction with that the interests of the Iraqi nation. He said the US intention is to try to undermine principles of popular representative rule in that country by stirring up unrest in pursuit of their vested interests.