Iranian Remains Defiant on Nuclear Program
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran would never give up its right to enrich uranium, but again promised that its program was for peaceful purposes only.
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Iran will press ahead with its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on the day of a U.N. deadline for Tehran to freeze its uranium enrichment activities.
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Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Wednesday, ruling out the key U.N. demand in a nuclear row with Tehran a day before talks with the EU's Javier Solana.
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Iran&#39;s foreign minister says that Tehran will never fully dismantle its nuclear capabilities, also voicing the country&#39;s concerns about the threat of a pre-emptive strike by Washington.
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The United States told Iran on Thursday it must change its nuclear course or be isolated, but Tehran remained defiant despite the specter of harsher sanctions as it held talks on its atomic work with the European Union.
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Iran will never dismantle its nuclear programmes but is ready to give assurances that its uranium enrichment activities will not be diverted for weapons technology, a senior Iranian negotiator told AFP on Wednesday.
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A defiant Iran kept on enriching uranium in advance of the U.N. Security Council's Thursday deadline for Tehran to freeze such activity or face the threat of sanctions, U.N. and European officials said.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday that Iran would defend its nuclear program, describing his country as a potential role model for others trying to develop advanced technology
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Iran vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions as a U.N.   deadline fell due for Tehran to stop work that the West fears   could lead to atomic bombs.
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Iran is approaching the "peak" in its nuclear program and will not yield to Western pressure to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.
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Iran vowed on Wednesday to press on with its nuclear fuel program, ignoring a U.N. deadline to freeze uranium enrichment or face broader sanctions, but offered to guarantee it would not try to develop atomic weapons.
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Iran vowed not to cave in to international pressure over its nuclear plans, as the European Union lamented a lack of progress in talks on a Western offer to defuse the standoff.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refused to say today whether he would to comply with a Security Council demand to withhold arms from Hezbollah.
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Iran, in a renewed challenge to U.S. and European efforts to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear bomb, vowed on Wednesday it would never give up its nuclear program.
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Iran refused yesterday to agree to suspend indefinitely its uranium enrichment activities although it would continue talks with Britain, France and Germany on a package of incentives.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that Iran was "opposed to any proliferation" of nuclear weapons and was always ready to talk about its nuclear program.
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Iran's president vowed on Wednesday not   to give up the right to nuclear technology, just as EU and   Iranian diplomats met to see if Tehran might suspend uranium   enrichment and avoid the threat of sanctions.