namely the United States and Israel.
“In line with the actualization of its goals, Iran will not bow down to any worldly forces,” Ali-Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Supreme Leader said last Thursday. Velayati was Iran’s foreign minister for 16 years in the 1980s and 1990s.
“The Islamic Republic is a country seeking to safeguard its authority without militarism or aggression against the sovereignty of other countries,” he said.
Velayati went on to attribute Iran’s towering international might among the Islamic and non-Islamic countries to its “independent Islamic identity.”
“The fact that Iran’s name is among the 14 countries in possession of nuclear [energy] technology, the 12 countries with missile technology, and the eight countries possessing satellite and space technologies is a testament to [the Islamic Republic’s] all-out might and progress.”
The sole reason for the opposition of hegemonic and arrogant powers to Iran’s peaceful activities and the advancement of its technology is that they do not want a country “outside their pacts” to become powerful, Velayati said.