Settlement of Iran's nuclear issue depends on US logical approach

Presidential hopeful Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel underlined Iran's transparency in its peaceful nuclear program, and said the standoff between Tehran and the West can be settled if Washington shows a logical approach.Haddad Adel has not made an official announcement about his candidacy in the upcoming president election in June, but has formed a coalition with Supreme Leader's top advisor in International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati and Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf known as the '2+1 Coalition' to take part in the June voting.If the US acts logically, Iran's nuclear issue can be solved," Haddad Adel, also a former parliament speaker, said in a press conference at the venue of Fars News Agency in Tehran on Saturday.Haddad Adel who has said "economy and foreign policy" will top his agenda if elected as Iran's next president, underlined that "Americans should end their hostility towards the Iranian nation".He pointed to the Supreme Leader's recent remarks that Iran is not ready for talks with the US under pressure, and said, "The Iranian nation does not accept to negotiate under the current conditions" that the US insists on pressurizing Iran.Asked about his government's position on Iran's peaceful nuclear program if he will be elected as the next Iranian president, Haddad Adel said, "Our nuclear program is fully transparent and we are not pursuing any wrong rationale to be required to change it."Washington and its Western allies accuse Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program, while they have never presented any corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations. Iran denies the charges and insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.Tehran stresses that the country has always pursued a civilian path to provide power to the growing number of Iranian population, whose fossil fuel would eventually run dry.Despite the rules enshrined in the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entitling every member state, including Iran, to the right of uranium enrichment, Tehran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.Tehran has dismissed West's demands as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.Tehran has repeatedly said that it considers its nuclear case closed as it has come clean of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s questions and suspicions about its past nuclear activities.