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Iran warns Western powers will regret sanctions
[Mail and Globe] President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to impose new sanctions on Iran, while stressing Tehran was still ready for a United Nations-brokered nuclear fuel-exchange deal. Ahmadinejad's latest salvo at world powers came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured the Gulf to earn backing for possible sanctions against Iran for defiantly pursuing its nuclear programme. "If anybody seeks to create problems for Iran, our response will not be like before," the hard-line Iranian president told a packed news conference in the capital, Tehran. "Something in response will be done which will make them [the world powers] regret" their move, he said. Ahmadinejad said negotiations over a UN-drafted nuclear fuel exchange were "not closed yet", and expressed readiness to buy the material even from Iran's arch-foe, the United States. Last year the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) proposed sending Iranian low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for further enrichment, denying Tehran refining capacity powers fear could be used to help build an atomic bomb. Posted by: Fred 2010-02-17 |
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