West uses sanctions to monopolize science: Iran minister
Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Kamran Daneshjou says the West uses sanctions as a tool to monopolize science and dominate the world, Press TV reports.
“The West uses science as a tool to dominate the world. For us, science is a tool to facilitate human development. It is because of these two conflicting views that the West has become so irrational,” Daneshjou said in reaction to the sanctions imposed against Iran's Sharif University of Technology.
“If we master technology, we share it with the world. Quite the opposite, the West wants to monopolize everything by restricting non-Western universities like those in Iran,” he added.
The European Union has imposed unilateral sanctions on Sharif University of Technology in Tehran based on the false allegation that the prestigious university provides support to Iran’s nuclear energy program. Reza Rousta-Azad, the president of Sharif University, has rejected the allegation.
“We have been familiar with the sanctions regime for three decades. What’s sad, weird and surprising is the way the EU has tried to justify this political move. Everyone knows that Sharif [University] is a civilian school. I don’t think everyone in Europe supports this move,” Rousta-Azad told Press TV. “We plan to file a complaint against the EU and we will fight for our rights.”
The sanctions stipulate that the university’s ‘European assets are frozen, and it is barred from dealing with European companies and individuals.’ Rousta-Azad, however, said the university had no European assets and maintained that it had not violated the provisions of the EU sanctions.
The United States, the Israeli regime and some of their allies have falsely accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
The US and certain other countries have imposed sanctions against the Islamic Republic over the unfounded allegation.
Iran has vehemently rejected the allegations against its nuclear energy program, arguing that as a committed signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it is entitled to use nuclear technology for peaceful objectives.
Source: presstv.com
