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Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki said on Thursday that the age of discriminatory international ties was over and that the language of threats is no more effective.

The minister made the remarks while attending a press conference in Madrid, Spain, before his departure to Tehran.

He had visited Spain to take part in the First International Conference of Average Income Countries.

Pointing to the failure of the US bullying policy in the Middle East, he said, "The time when US was able to impose its policies on other nations by force is over now."
Referring to the failure of US policies in the Middle East region, the minister said that present situations in Afghanistan and Iraq were clear evident of US failure in its claims on securing peace and security in the region.

Criticizing US moves in the United Nations Security Council, Mottaki said that Washington had vetoed more than 80 resolutions including 40 related to the Zionist regime.

"Washington should notice that such unfair relations will not last forever at the international arena," stressed the minister.

He strongly protested against the silence and indifference of the Western world after Israel had announced that its has possessed atomic weapons arsenal.

Mottaki stressed that US double standard policy on the nuclear issue was not acceptable.

"This is not acceptable that US have the right to produce nuclear weapons but deprive other countries from even possessing peaceful nuclear energy," said the minister.

He referred to the latest report of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei on Iran nuclear activities and said it was mentioned in that report that there was no case of Iran's deviation from its peaceful nuclear activities.

"Iran is not after adventurism in its nuclear issue," Mottaki said stressing that the time was ripe now for making "reasonable interactions in the international arena."
Asked about the possibility of US military action against Iran, Mottaki said, "We like people of America and we hope that their leaders will not repeat their mistakes again."
Stressing that Iran "did not welcome another crisis in the Persian Gulf region," Mottaki said "The US is not in a situation now to impose another crisis on its tax-payers."
Mottaki added is seemed that US officials had also preferred to resolve Iran's nuclear dispute through diplomatic ways.

Mottaki called on western media to let the nuclear dispute be solved through diplomatic solutions as it was intended by the people, scholars and elites of the international community.

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