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Ahmadinejad dismisses ‘repetitive’ N-demands Tuesday, July 08, 2008

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‘On one side world powers ask us to negotiate and on the other they threaten and say that we must renounce our rights’

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday bluntly rejected as “repetitive” calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, as world powers reviewed its response to an offer to end the five-year nuclear crisis.

Ahmadinejad’s defiant remarks were the latest sign Tehran’s response contains no suggestion it is ready to suspend uranium enrichment activities, which world powers fear could be used to make a nuclear weapon.

“It is a repetitive scenario,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying in an interview with Malaysian television from Kuala Lumpur where he is to attend the summit of the D8 group of developing nations.

“On one side they (world powers) ask to negotiate and on the other they threaten and say that we must give in to their illegal demands and renounce our rights,” he added. His comments come days after Iran gave an undisclosed response to the package from six world powers to break the deadlock in the nuclear standoff, which has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiralling.

The proposal from the world powers offers Iran technological incentives in exchange for suspending uranium enrichment, which the West fears could be used to make a nuclear weapon. Meanwhile, EU foreign policy Chief Javier Solana-who presented the offer last month-sought to quell speculation of an immediate breakthrough in the standoff.

“I hope that we will be able to continue the dialogue in the coming weeks. We’ll see, but I don’t want to give the impression of being too optimistic,” Solana told reporters in Paris. “It’s difficult.”

Some Iranian officials, including the foreign policy advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last week gave a relatively upbeat assessment of the package. Their comments helped ease oil prices, which had shot to record highs of over 145 dollars a barrel over fears the defiance of OPEC’s number two producer could lead to war. But Ahmadinejad stuck to his habitual hard line.

“We are in favour of dialogue but we will negotiate in a just atmosphere and on common subjects because negotiations in an unbalanced climate will have no result,” he said. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said earlier that he did not think that Iran’s response to the package “provides great hope. But it gives a little bit of hope.”

Solana also said he hoped to meet later this month with Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili. Solana refused to give details of the Iranian response, which was delivered in Brussels on Friday.

The United States has never ruled out military action to end the Iranian defiance and concerns a strike could be imminent mounted after it emerged Iran’s arch enemy Israel had carried out dry-runs for an attack.

Hitting out at the “satanic desires” of US President George W Bush, Ahmadinejad shrugged off the idea that the United States could attack Iran. “Even if some countries like Israel and the United States join forces they will not dare to attack Iran and they know it very well,” Ahmadinejad said.

“They know that they cannot use the language of force against Iran and must bend in the face of the will of the Iranian people.” Iran rejects the Western accusations and insists its nuclear programme is solely aimed at generating energy for a growing population whose hydrocarbon reserves will eventually run out.

President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, which has urged a diplomatic solution, told Bush at the G8 summit in Japan that Moscow was awaiting signals in favour of dialogue from Iran. “Russia will do everything to stimulate dialogue with Iran and expects corresponding signals from the leaders of Iran,” Medvedev’s diplomatic advisor Sergei Prikhodko told journalists.