The Iranian foreign minister says Western countries will ultimately have no choice but to recognize Iran as a scientific hub for the peaceful nuclear industry.

President Masoud Pezeshkian emphasizes that Iran’s expansion of its peaceful nuclear industry is aimed at enhancing the nation’s welfare, not acquiring weapons.

The AEOI chief has reminded enemies that Iran’s homegrown civilian nuclear industry cannot be obliterated through bombardment.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in his dismissal of a US plan for Iran to abandon uranium enrichment, asserted Wednesday that the nuclear industry is not just for energy production.

Many oil refineries today use up to 70 percent of sophisticated nuclear devices, which indicates the inexorable importance of nuclear technology to petroleum-producing countries such as Iran.

The IAEA chief has visited Iran’s achievements in the nuclear industry during an exhibition in Vienna.

The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the country ranks among the top five in the nuclear industry.