‘Iran won’t back down one iota despite pressure over nukes’ – Haaretz – Israel News
‘Iran won’t back down one iota despite pressure over nukes’ – Haaretz – Israel News.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday said that further United Nations Security Council sanctions would not deter Iran from pursuing its controversial nuclear program, French news agency AFP reported.
Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran will not back down “one iota” despite international pressures over its nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for peaceful purposes and not for developing an atomic bomb.
“They issued several resolutions and sanctioned Iran… They think Iranians will fall on their knees over these things but they are mistaken,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech quoted by AFP.
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“We are not interested in conflicts [but] you are continually demanding things,” he said to world powers, led by the United States, which are seeking to curb Iran’s atomic ambitions.
“They should not think they can put up obstacles in Iranians’ way… I assure the people…that the government will whole-heartedly defend Iran’s rights and will not back down one iota,” he said.
Iran is already under three sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its defiance and refusal to suspend enrichment, which lies at the heart of international fears about its nuclear program.
The process that makes nuclear fuel can also be used to make the fissile core of an atomic bomb.
World powers gave Iran until the end of 2009 to accept a UN-brokered deal to ship most of Iran’s low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad to be further refined into reactor fuel by Russia and France.
But the deadline was ignored, prompting talk of fresh sanctions against the Islamic republic.
Iran has in return insisted on its counter-proposal of a staged swap of LEU for nuclear reactor fuel.
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