Related: Iran leader takes reporters to key nuke plant

View of a Uranium Conversion Facility in Isfahan, Iran March 30, 2005. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami took a group of journalists deep underground on Wednesday into the heart of a nuclear plant which Washington wants dismantled and whose existence was kept secret until 2002. (Photo: Xinhua/AFP)

    BEIJING, Mar. 31 -- Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has taken reporters on an unprecedented tour of the Islamic republic's closely guarded nuclear sites. He has vowed his country will never abandon its controversial drive to enrich uranium.

    He told the reporters that despite pressures from every side to deprive it of peaceful nuclear technology, Iran is on the verge of producing nuclear fuel.

    Khatami said that in negotiations with Britain, France and Germany, Iran had only offered to limit its nuclear fuel cycle work as part of a "pilot stage" but it would definitely carry out enrichment in the future.

    (Source: CRIENGLISH.com)