Iran, Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi sentenced to six years
Tehran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi: 'Uranium enrichment is our right and must continue. No one can tell us what we can or cannot have'
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison. His lawyer told the France Presse news agency today.
Counsel Mostafa Nili explained that Mohammadi was sentenced to six years' imprisonment for 'assembly and collusion to commit crimes' and that she was also given a two-year ban on travelling. He added that the dissident also received a sentence of one and a half years in prison for propaganda activities and that she will have to serve two years of internal exile in the city of Khosf in the eastern province of South Khorasan.
"No one has the right to tell us what we can or cannot have. Enrichment is our right and must continue. Even the attacks on our facilities have failed to destroy our capabilities'. So said Tehran's foreign minister, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, during his speech at the First National Congress on Foreign Policy and History of Foreign Relations.
"Iran has paid a very high price for its peaceful nuclear programme and uranium enrichment," he explained. "Our nuclear bomb is the power to say no to the great powers," Araghchi said. "The military attitude of our adversaries in the region does not intimidate us," he added. "We believe in diplomacy and logic, but we are also prepared for war. We have the power."
Speaking at the National Congress on Foreign Policy, Araghchi stressed that Iran's response depends on the tone adopted by others towards the country. "If they speak to the Iranian people with the language of force, we will respond with the same language. If they speak with respect, we will respond with respect," he stressed.
