New York, August 31, IRNA – Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani underlined that the Islamic Republic of Iran in the nuclear talks with the world powers showed the weapon of force and bullying is no longer effective.

'The Iranian nation in the nuclear issue by standing up against the pressures and sanctions showed that the weapon of force and bullying are obsolete and ineffective,' Larijani said addressing the Fourth World Conference of Parliament Speakers at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday.

The Fourth World Conference of Parliament Speakers is convened by the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in cooperation with the United Nations.

Majlis speaker said that certain world powers tried to bring the Iranian nation to its knees, but the great Iranian nation stood against force by choosing the course of resistance and steadfastness and emerged victorious.

'Doing so, the Iranian nation showed that the weapon of force and bullying is old and ineffective and has lost its effectiveness and power of influence,' Larijani added.

He went on to say that in today’s world, some powers still believe that they can attain their political goals by resorting to force, pressure, and sanctions.

“The main question to be discussed at this session should be ‘is democracy really at the service of peace and sustainable development in today’s world or not?,' Larijani added.

The Iranian parliament speaker said that some governments, which purportedly seek democracy for their own peoples, support dictatorship and despotic and violent regimes in some countries and seek to establish democracy in others via bombs and machineguns.

“The same approaches are the begetters and causes of most warmongering in today’s world. The painful fate of the downtrodden Palestinian people, the belligerency of the Zionist regime, war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war in Yemen, and the five-year-long war in Syria can be cited here as examples,” Larijani said.

By IRNA