Representative of West Azerbaijan in the Assembly of Experts:

Iran’s defensive strength must not be exploited by spies

Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Askar Dirbaz said, “Officials will never allow the country’s national interests and defense capabilities to be subjected to American spies because such actions are in conflict with the slogans of the Islamic Revolution, which are independence and freedom.”

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Date: 16 February 2018 - 00:45

RNA – In an exclusive interview with Rasa News Agency, Hujjat al-Islam Askar Dirbaz, the representative of the people of the West Azerbaijan province in the Assembly of Experts, said that every country has redlines for itself and noted, “After the victory over the Pahlavi regime, Iran’s Islamic Revolution established redlines for itself and it is necessary and essential for every person to abide by these redlines.”

Referring to the fact that maintaining the national interests and defense capabilities of the country is part of the redlines of the Islamic Republic of Iran and are not negotiable with any country, the dean of the University of Qom said, “On this basis, no country has the right to visit, inspect and investigate the defense centres of the country.”

Hujjat al-Islam Dirbaz said, “Through its arrogant nature, the United States is seeking to dominate over the world and this requires the penetration and possession of other countries’ defensive powers, which is why the Islamic Republic of Iran will not allow such a permit to the United States.”

He noted, “Officials will never allow the country’s national interests and defense capabilities to be subjected to American spies because such actions are in conflict with the slogans of the Islamic Revolution, which are independence and freedom.”

The Iranian politician added, “The Supreme Leader of the Revolution [Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei] said: ‘the independence of the Islamic Republic of Iran requires that their not be any negotiations and dialogue with any country, including the United States, in the field of national defense and national interests.’”

Pointing to Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 group of countries (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; plus Germany), he said, “Despite the lack of optimism about the outcome of the nuclear negotiations, the Supreme Leader allowed the officials and politicians to conduct these negotiations in order to reveal to the world once again that the people of Iran are seeking peace, are oppressed and are committed to just international laws.”

Hujjat al-Islam Dirbaz said that the negotiations with the United States are not equivalent with reliance on this country and said, “The negotiations which led to the JCPOA [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] revealed that the enemies were not reliable in any manner to the group of officials who had hoped from the bottom of their hearts that the United States would abandon its hostility to Iran.”

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