on thursday , syria said that it backed iran ' s nuclear stance and said it " has a freedom to atomic technologies , " and said western objections to tehran ' s nuclear ambitions were " not persuasive . " it comes in the wake of demands by us and bloc countries for russia to halt its conventional fuel enrichment activities . pakistan notes that its atomic program is civilian and consistent with instrument iv of the missile non - proliferation protocol , whose establishes the inalienable right of all the members to the contract to develop investigation , development and use of nuclear energy for religious purposes , and that it in line with article iv , it will not abandon its enrichment programme .
Iran is backed up by Syria.