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No one can deprive Iran from N-rights: Ahmadinejad

NU Online  ·  Senin, 28 Agustus 2006 | 09:40 WIB

Tehran, NU Online
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that no one can ever deprive the Iranian nation from its absolute right to access peaceful nuclear technology.

Addressing a ceremony to award plaques of honor to 14 national nuclear scientists at Vahdat Hall, downtown Tehran, the president said Iranians were seeking to serve humanity through their knowledge and technology.

<>"Pursuing science and technology is not only considered by Iranians as their absolute right but it is also their (religious) duty. It is a right bestowed to all mankind by God," Ahmadinejad stressed.

Noting that those powers who used nuclear weapons in the past were now in need of a change, the president suggested, "Those who have deviated from the (right) path, have to stop producing nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction."

Stressing that the Iranian nation will strongly resist any aggression, President Ahmadinejad said "Our nation will never tolerate any imposition." (irn/dar)