Iran president rejects UN nuclear deadline
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today rejected a UN Security Council resolution that would give his nation until August 31 to suspend uranium enrichment.
Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear programme.
“My words are the words of the Iranian nation. Throughout Iran, there is one slogan: ‘The Iranian nation considers the peaceful use of nuclear fuel production technology its right’,” Ahmadinejad said.
Ahmadinejad said Iran will not give in to threats from the United Nations, referring to the resolution though he didn’t not specifically mention it.
“If some think they can still speak with threatening language to the Iranian nation, they must know that they are badly mistaken,” he said in a speech broadcast live on state-run television.
Iran has said it would formally respond on August 22 to an incentives package, but a top Iranian politician today said the Security Council resolution has effectively killed it.
“Response to the proposed package is null and void since the Security Council resolution means the package is of no use,” said lawmaker Hamid Reza Haj Babaei.
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