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| IranÂ’s Ahmadinejad again rejects enrichment suspension |
| 2006-04-14 |
| TEHERAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday once again rejected a demand by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to suspend its uranium enrichment process. “This is a legitimate and irrevocable right of the Iranian nation which we will decisively pursue regardless of threats and pressures,” Ahmadinejad said on state-television during the last day of his visit to the north-eastern Khorassan province. While terming uranium enrichment as a red line over which Iran would not compromise with anyone, the president proclaimed Thursday that Iran had already joined the world’s nuclear states “and there would be no way back.” Despite defying international demands to suspend uranium enrichment, Iran on Friday still hoped that the final report by the head of the to the United Nations Security Council would be “fair.” “Iranian officials hope that (Mohamed) ElBaradei’s report would be fair, logical and satisfactory for both sides,” said Mohammed Saedi, deputy of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency. Although Iran on Thursday promised the visiting IAEA chief further cooperation, it termed his demand to suspend the uranium enrichment process as “irrational.” “Iran’s nuclear programmes are in no way contradictory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and this is a fact which even even ElBaradei confirms,” Saeidi told the Iranian news network al-Alam. He reiterated that the IAEA could still use all its legal capacities to make sure that the Iranian nuclear projects followed a peaceful course. |
| Posted by:Steve |