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President Ahmadinezhad Says Iran Not Interested in Acquiring Nuclear Weapons

Posted on: Saturday, 14 January 2006, 09:00 CST

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."

Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile

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