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Khamenei advisor urges resistance on nuclear program
The top advisor to Iran's supreme leader called on Friday for "resistance" to international pressure over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme, complaining that Tehran was subject to "idiotic and childish" demands. The Europeans "have told us to stop our nuclear programme and in return they will sell us commercial jets and trains", Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri said in a speech carried on state radio ahead of Friday's weekly prayers. "This is an idiotic and childish thing," he said. "Fortunately, the opinion polls show that 75 to 80 percent of Iranians want to resist, and that we continue our programme and reject humiliation." He said supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state, "has summed up our policy in one phrase: if you (the Europeans) are reasonable, we will negotiate with you, if not we have nothing to say to you." "They tell us to suspend enrichment, but it is none of your business," said Nategh Nouri, insisting that fuel cycle work was permitted under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). "And what relationship is there between the NPT and the hyprocrites," he said, referring to the Iraq-based People's Mujahedeen armed opposition group. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-11-12 |
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