Ahmadi-Nejad: Enemies fail on Iran's nuclear issue
Iran-UN, Politics, 8/14/2006

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad today said that Iran's enemies have failed in their attempts against the country's nuclear issue and are disappointed.

He said that the enemies are now determined to sow the seed of discord inside Iran, adding that the the knowledgeable nation of Iran will once more show at such a point that it will remain united and integrated in the face of hostile elements.

"Iran is the only country which has declared its readiness to allow other countries to participate in its nuclear activities and has always urged the need for negotiations, dialogue and reason," he said.

Ahmadi-Nejad said that this in itself is a proof of the peaceful nature of the country's nuclear activities.

He also assessed the recent developments in Lebanon and the victory of Hizbullah Movement -- despite the extensive planning of Israel and its supporters -- as a divine favor, expected to disrupt the future balance of the region. "Despite the United Nations Security Council's unilateral resolution aiming to secure the Israel's interests and its inhuman crimes in Lebanon, the Lebanese nation and the country's resistance forces are the actual winners of the recent developments," he said.

The president underlined that the UN and other international bodies should prevent future wars, genocide and taking the lives of innocent Lebanese women and children.

"Once war is uprooted, real peace will be materialized by compensating the losses suffered by the Lebanese people and trial of the leaders of the Zionist regime as well as their supporters, in particular the US and Britain," he said. Stating that the UN approach to the recent developments in Lebanon once more has reduced the level of this international body to an instrument used by some countries, he criticized the UNSC resolution on Iran's nuclear issue.

A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official is to travel to Tehran today to discuss the Iran nuclear issue as well as bilateral and international issues. Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai is to resume discussions to try to resolve the nuclear issue. China has repeatedly urged a diplomatic solution to the nuclear dispute, but has been under pressure from the US and Europe to back tougher action on Tehran if it fails to suspend uranium enrichment and other related activities by August 31, the deadline set in a UN Security Council resolution passed on July 31.

Iran has rejected the resolution, and regretted that it was passed while it was still considering a package of incentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment activities.

About the meeting between the Iranian and Russian nuclear experts and discussion on Russian proposal about Iran's nuclear issue, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi did not confirm such a meeting. Turning to Russia's proposal, he said that this one and other proposals were on the agenda and under study, adding that given the recent conditions and the UN resolution issued against Iran, favorable grounds no more exist for Russia's and other proposals.

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel has said parliament will not allow the government to stop uranium enrichment.

A Majlis deputy on Monday said that the peaceful use of nuclear energy was among the least demands of Iran.

"No power can deprive Islamic Iran of its right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes," the MP from Iran's western Kurdish cities, Fereydoun Hemmati, said while noting the West's incessant pressures on Iran to give up it nuclear programs.

"Enemies of the country are trying to remove the strength and power of Iran by subjecting it to threats and political pressures and raising hue and cry over its nuclear programs," he said. He said that the "package of incentives offered to the country to give up its nuclear activities was a new effort to deprive Islamic Iran of the advantages of peaceful nuclear technology."

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel yesterday stressed that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not accept suspension of enrichment.
Addressing the open session of the Majlis, he said the recent resolution passed last week by the United Nations Security Council on Iran's nuclear case has no legal and logical justification.

As to Iran's peaceful nuclear activities, he reiterated that the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have witnessed no deviation from civil and peaceful activities in Iran's nuclear program.
"We believe that the balance between rights and duties should be observed in international organizations," he said, stressing that the international bodies should not dictate anything to countries while refusing to recognize their rights.

"If Iran is to be deprived of its inalienable rights, there will be no reason for the country to remain a member of the international bodies and the IAEA," he added.

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