Iran - not budging...

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It's gonna be a very bad thing if they continue this...


Geneva/Tehran - Iran showed itself unimpressed by a new UN deadline on the nuclear controversy Thursday, with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki saying in Geneva that Tehran would continue to insist on pursuing peaceful uses of nuclear technology.

At the Conference on Disarmament, Mottaki said 'access to the peaceful use of nuclear technology is the undeniable right of Iran and of other member states of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).'

Mottaki said one possible solution would be the creation of a regional consortium under the surveillance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which would deal with the issue of the cycle of nuclear fuels.

'Iran, as a member of NPT aims to continue its peaceful nuclear programme under the surveillance of the IAEA,' he vowed.

Mottaki's remarks came while the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany were meeting in Berlin to discuss their next move in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Earlier in Tehran, several Iranian MPs rejected the ultimatum by the United Nations Security Council for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment efforts within 30 days, the news agency Mehr reported.

'We will continue our nuclear activities and research not pay the least of attention to such resolutions which were approved solely upon political pressure by certain countries,' Soleyman Jafarzadeh, a member of the security commission in the parliament, told Mehr.

'The United States and Europe should know that they will eventually witness the consequences of such unfair decisions in the Middle East,' Jafarzadeh said without further elaborating. <--That is the sort of talk that these asshats do NOT want to be putting out there That shit will get you wiped off the map

The MP termed the UN demand to halt nuclear know-how already achieved by local scientists as 'quite ridiculous.'

Another security commission member, Elham Aminzadeh, said that the UN decision against Iran will be registered as a 'negative record' in the history of the UN which she said was believed to have been created to support progress and development of world states.

'Considering the ultimatum against Iran one wonders why Iran should stay committed to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) when a member-country is deprived of the rights clearly stated in the NPT,' Aminzadeh said.

'We will nevertheless decisively pursue our nuclear activities,' she added.

The cleric MP Ali Asgari told Mehr that 'even a hundred UN resolutions would not make Iran retreat from its legitimate right to pursue nuclear technology.

'The US and Britain should know that such ultimatums will not cause the least of fear within our people? Iran is neither Afghanistan nor Iraq,' Asgari said.

Iran's UN ambassador Javad Zarif had reacted on Wednesday by saying his country 'cannot accept pressure and intimidation' and has a right to nuclear power.