Tehran
There is no way Iran would withdraw from its right to pursue nuclear
technology, including uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad said Friday.
"Iran just wants to realize its rights in accordance with
internationally acknowledged rules and regulations and as active
member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),"
Ahmadinejad said in a speech at Tehran University.
"As far as we are concerned, the nuclear dossier is closed and we
are not willing to put our irrevocable (nuclear) right to
discussion," he added.
The European Union foreign ministers are to hold a meeting on Oct 15
to discuss a French initiative to take independent punitive measures
against Iran outside the UN Security Council.
"The hue and cry by some Western countries is just a proof that we
have made great (nuclear) achievements and the job (access to
nuclear know-how) is accomplished," Ahmadinejad said.
The president said Iran was willing to continue cooperation with the
IAEA and reply to all questions and ambiguities by the nuclear
watchdog.
"The IAEA makes questions, we answer them. Therefore there is no
need to make a crisis out of the Iranian nuclear dossier - the West
still believes it can intimidate us with psychological war and make
us stop (our nuclear programmes) but they should revise their
standpoints," he said.
Ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani Friday also stressed Iran's
undeniable right to pursue nuclear technology.
Rafsanjani said that the West, and not Iran, made the nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and all Tehran wanted was acting in
accordance with the NPT whose signatories, including Iran, were
entitled to have civil nuclear technology.
Iran and the IAEA agreed in August on a plan of action, which aims
at removing all technical ambiguities over Iran's nuclear projects
by November or December this year.
The plan is also supposed to prepare ground for political talks
between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign
policy chief Javier Solana.
Tehran considers the plan as the most suitable basis to settle the
nuclear dispute by diplomatic means but is not ready to accept the
Western precondition that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment before
resuming talks.
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