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President Ahmadinezhad Says Iran Not
Interested in Acquiring Nuclear Weapons
BY REDORBIT NEWS
01/14/06 "RedOrbit"
-- -- In his second major news conference since taking
office six months ago, President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad reiterated
Iran's right to acquire peaceful nuclear technology.
He said: "unfortunately today humanity is plagued with some
leaders who only see their immediate surroundings. Those who
believe they have greater rights than other nations, simply
because they possess a large nuclear, chemical and biological
arsenal. They are convinced that they can impose their views on
others. Iran's nuclear case falls in that category.
All member countries have the right to use peaceful nuclear
technology based on the IAEA regulations and Non-Proliferation
Treaty [NPT]. No amount of efforts can limit these rights or
prevent the member countries from realizing them. The
inspections should not deprive nations from realizing their
rights.
Many Western countries have a large arsenal of nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons. They built dozens of new nuclear power
plants every year. They now challenge Iran...In the beginning,
every time we told them that they aimed to stop our progress,
they would turn around and say that they were worried about the
production of nuclear weapons. But as you witnessed recently,
they blatantly admitted that they were against research and
academic work. We have always known this.
They want to monopolize expensive nuclear energy. They are
pursuing two objectives. In the first place, they sell this
energy at high cost and in a piecemeal fashion to other nations.
And in the second place, they use this as a tool to impose their
policies on others. We have said it many times that our nation
does not need nuclear weapons."
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