Ahmadinejad says Iran won't yield to pressure
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   said on Thursday Iran would not yield to Western pressure over   its rights, on the day of a U.N. deadline to halt its atomic   work.
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Iran's president rejects calls to suspend uranium enrichment, a day before a UN deadline runs out.
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Iran will not back down in a nuclear dispute with the West and is not interested in talks with the United States, its president said on Tuesday ahead of a previously unannounced visit by Russia's foreign minister.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is poised to deliver a defiant address to the United Nations general assembly this week amid a storm of opposition to his visit to New York and growing international alarm over his country's nuclear ambitions.
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Iran has no brake and no reverse gear in its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday, while a deputy foreign minister vowed Tehran was prepared for any eventuality, "even for war".
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York to protests Sunday and said in a television interview that Iran was neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should not show weakness over its nuclear program, a day after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says could to used for making bombs.
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Sanctions will not succeed in stopping Iran's nuclear progress, its president said on Saturday, a day after major powers said they had "serious and constructive" talks about new U.N. punitive measures.
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The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was under pressure to perform a U-turn on petrol rationing today after the restriction prompted violent protests at filling stations across the country this week.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday in a live television interview that there were no grounds for imposing new U.N. sanctions on his country.
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Iran wants talks on its nuclear program but rejects preconditions demanding it freeze the work, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, just ahead of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to back down.
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Iran said on Tuesday it would never suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the West, a day after world powers agreed to work on a new U.N. resolution to pressure Tehran to back down over its nuclear program.
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Iran's president said on Wednesday his country was not concerned about any further U.N. resolutions over Tehran's nuclear program and would not allow the West to block Iranian scientific progress.
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Iran vowed defiantly on Thursday not to   bow to Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was   expected to report Tehran had failed to meet a deadline to halt   work which the West fears could help it build a nuclear bomb.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday Iran should stand up to the world and pursue its nuclear program, after Tehran ignored a U.N. deadline to stop nuclear work which the West says will be used to make atom bombs.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran has brought world powers "to their knees" and successfully resisted U.S.-led efforts to get Tehran to halt its uranium enrichment.
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Iran's hard-line president on Thursday again rejected demands that Tehran suspend uranium enrichment, even as top Iranian and European diplomats sounded somewhat optimistic about making progress toward starting negotiations.