Iran adamant on full and complete rights to nuclear development: Khatami

Tehran's substitute Friday Prayers Leader Ahmad Khatami said today the Iranian nation will defend its inalienable nuclear rights to last drop of its blood.

Addressing thousands of worshipers at Tehran University Campus, Khatami said, that westerners should know that in the case of Iran's nuclear energy, they are not facing a party and wing, rather they are encountered by a nation which has risen up to defend its inalienable rights to the last drop of its blood, IRNA reported.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran's logic on all subjects is based on "do not make any injustice and do not be oppressed;" we neither make an injustice nor seek any special concession; we will not surrender to oppression," said Khatami in his second sermon to multitudes of Friday prayers congregation as he was referring to resumption of the Iran-EU3 nuclear talks in Vienna on Wednesday.

"Iran has commitments and rights based on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT); The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) acknowledges that Iran has been acting on its commitments... Iran has rights in the NPT which will not compromise them even slightly," said Khatami, who has newly been appointed by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei as substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran.

Referring to Article four of the NPT, he said, "Based on this article, the signatories can acquire peaceful nuclear technology including power plants.

"Westerners should be concerned over Israel which according to a former Israeli technician has 200 nuclear warheads." Khatami added that "the west should fear the Zionist regime which occupied Muslims' land unjustly and does not intend to withdraw from there at all."