Iran: Threats won't work in atomic talks
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-06-08 16:50
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that any talks over
its nuclear program must be in a fair atmosphere and threats would not work.
A woman attends a
religious ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Iran's
Late Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, while standing under a huge
portrait of Khomeini in Tehran, June 4, 2006.
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"Negotiations should take place in a fair atmosphere. If they (the
international community) think they can threaten and hang a stick over the head
of the Iranian nation and negotiate at the same time, they should know the
Iranian nation will reject such an atmosphere," he said in a televised speech.
He also said Iran would not negotiate over its "certain rights." Ahmadinejad
did not mention uranium enrichment, but Iranian officials have previously said
enrichment, which the West wants Iran to stop, is a national
right.
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