Iran&#39;s Rafsanjani vows resistance to EU, US nuclear pressure
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Iran&#39;s powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, vowed Wednesday the Islamic republic would resist international efforts to prevent it from mastering advanced nuclear technology.
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Iran will not abandon its right to  nuclear technology regardless of threats of more sanctions,  Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a letter to his  French counterpart issued on Monday by an Iranian news agency.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Iran would defend the aims of its nuclear program during any negotiations, as the European Union gave Tehran extra time to show it was serious about talks.
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Iran reiterates that it will not give up uranium enrichment on the eve of talks with the European Union.
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Tehran - Iran&#39;s top nuclear official said on Sunday the Islamic republic would refuse to accept any limitations on its nuclear activities, and threatened to halt tough UN inspections if the case was referred to the Security Council.
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Iran will "remove obstacles" blocking negotiations with the United States if Washington shows good will, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani said Wednesday.
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Iran will not retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, hours before his new chief negotiator was to meet Western diplomats for the first time.
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Iran&#39;s atomic energy chief warns Tehran will reject European proposal unless it respects its rights. By Siavosh Ghazi - TEHRAN.
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Iran's president voiced defiance on Wednesday as world powers prepared to put the finishing touches to new sanctions against the Islamic Republic, saying his country would not surrender.
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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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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's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali   Khamenei said on Monday Iran would press ahead with its pursuit   of nuclear energy, indicating it will not heed a U.N. demand it   stop enriching uranium or face possible sanctions.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said his country would not beg world powers to allow Iran to have a nuclear program.
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Iran said yesterday it is ready to provide &quot;guarantees&quot; it won&#39;t seek nuclear weapons, and warned the United States that success in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan was impossible without Iranian support.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran says it won&#39;t be bullied into giving up its nuclear energy plans. State television quotes a government spokesman (Hamid Reza Asefi) who says Tehran only wants proposals that meet its national
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Iran will not beg world powers for its right to develop nuclear technology and has shown it will not retreat from the "field of danger" to protect such rights, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday.
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Iran vowed on Thursday never to shelve   its nuclear program, defying the threat of sanctions hours as a   U.N. deadline fell due for Tehran to stop work that the West   fears could lead to atomic bombs.