MOSCOW, Feb 7The demonization of Iran is a dead end, Tehran does not have nuclear weapons, their carriers, and there are no developments in this direction, in order to remove concerns, the countries of the region need to conduct a dialogue based on the principle of indivisibility of security, the director of the department for nonproliferation and control said in an interview with RIA Novosti over the weapons of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Yermakov. «In fact, Iran does not have anything that its neighbors in the region would not have. «Demonization» of Iran is a dead end. A broad comprehensive discussion on regional security issues is needed, within which the countries of the Persian Gulf could create mechanisms of trust and transparency that remove their concern and suspicion towards each other. Such a conversation cannot be conducted without Iran and against it,» Yermakov said. The diplomat stressed that the fundamental prerequisite for successful movement in this direction, as in the Euro-Atlantic strict observance of the principle of uniform and indivisible security, which which implies that the security problems of some countries cannot be solved at the expense or to the detriment of other states. He recalled that UN Security Council Resolution 2231 calls on Tehran not to carry out activities related to the development and creation of ballistic missiles designed in such a way that they capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The diplomat added that «the Iranian side strictly follows this call» and «does not have either nuclear weapons or their carriers and does not carry out any developments in this direction.» widespread containment of Iran and the creation of maximum obstacles for international cooperation with it in any area, including space.In addition, as everyone remembers, the Iranian missile threat was diligently inflated in the West as a justification for the deployment of American missile defense in Europe. All this was «sewn with white threads «, — Yermakov concluded.
