He accused some western countries of pulling up Iran over its nuclear issue despite the fact that it has conducted nuclear activities in line with its declaration submitted to the IAEA without seeking any military purpose.

On the contrary, those countries keep thousands of nuclear weapons and threaten other countries with them, while keeping silence over Israel's possession of nuclear weapons, he noted.

He stressed that Iran's nuclear issue cannot be settled with double standards, but only through dialogue and negotiations among the countries concerned without external interference on the basis of respect for international law.