Ahmadinejad says uranium enrichment 'non-negotiable': report

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Iran rejects Western incentives to suspend nuclear work
Iran said on Saturday it would not make any concession in exchange for incentives offered by the West to halt sensitive atomic activities. "Iran does not trade its rights in return for incentives," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. "It is not reasonable to replace the (International Atomic Energy) Agency with some countries which themselves possess nuclear weapons," he said. The UN Security Council last month tightened sanctions on Iran for failing to heed repeated ultimatums to suspend uranium enrichment. The council's five veto-wielding permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany have pledged to expand a 2006 offer of economic incentives to Iran in return for a freeze on uranium enrichment. But Iran last month ruled out further talks with the six saying that concerns about its nuclear programme should be dealt with exclusively by the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that he would reject any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending uranium enrichment. "This is a non-negotiable subject," Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling Japan's Kyodo News.

by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) April 4, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published Friday that he would reject any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending uranium enrichment.

"This is a non-negotiable subject," Ahmadinejad was quoted as telling Japan's Kyodo News when asked about possible incentives carrying conditions that Iran suspend its enrichment activities.

"Iran is a nuclear country and has no reason to give up the technology. If there are to be any preconditions, we must propose preconditions," he said.

The Security Council last month tightened UN sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt nuclear fuel work as six major powers offered to resume talks with the Islamic republic to end the standoff.

The five permanent UN Security Council powers plus Germany reconfirmed and pledged to expand a 2006 offer of economic and trade incentives to Iran in exchange for a freeze of its uranium enrichment activities.

But Iran last month ruled out further talks with the six.

Ahmadinejad told Kyodo that the suspension of its uranium enrichment programme was an issue related to the past as "we have passed this stage."

He again rejected any new talks with the European Union over Iran's nuclear programme, saying Tehran would negotiate only with the UN atomic agency.

The UN Security Council has repeatedly called on Iran to freeze uranium enrichment, which the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, but which Iran insists is only needed to make atomic fuel for power stations.

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Outside View: Khamenei takes control

London, April 1, 2008
As parliamentary elections in Iran confirm a vast majority for the hard-liners in Iran, jostling seems to have already gained pace for Iran's presidential elections in 2009. However, pressure on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has grown more forceful from within his own camp rather than the so-called reformists whose campaign was crushed by the vast disqualification of their candidates in the March 14 parliamentary polls.

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