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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during the ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran February 11, 2006. (Xinhua/AFP)

     EHRAN, Feb. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned here on Saturday that Iran would revise its policy of cooperation on the nuclear issue if its legal rights on the peaceful nuclear technology could not be secured.

    "If the Islamic Republic's legal nuclear rights were violated under the current cooperative policy, the Iranian people will revise it, " Ahmadinejad told a huge rally in the Azadi (freedom)Square, which was held to mark the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.

    Ahmadinejad stressed that Iran had been carrying out its nuclear program within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), adding that Iran's nuclear research was peaceful.

    "Anybody who plans to deprive Iran of legal nuclear rights with such international regulations should know that such moves would lead to our revision of policy," Ahmadinejad warned.

    The hardline president vowed that the Iranian people would never give up their nuclear rights.

    Meanwhile, demonstrators in Tehran as well as other cities across the country availed themselves of this commemorative event to protest against the pressure exerted by western countries on Iran's nuclear issue.

   

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution In Tehran February 11, 2006.  (Xinhua)

 "We will never give in on the peaceful nuclear technology,"thousands of protestors shouted in the Azadi Square."Nobody can prevent us from obtaining legal rights," they chanted.

    The president's warning came in response to a recent resolution by the IAEA's board of governors, which urges Tehran to re-suspend all activities related to uranium enrichment and requires the agency to report Iran's nuclear file to the U.N. Security Council.

    Iran has announced an end to its voluntary cooperative measures with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, saying it will resume uranium enrichment in mid-February, but it also voiced willingness to continue negotiations with the international community.

    A notable voluntary measure which has been ceased by Tehran was the implementation of the additional protocol of the NPT, which requires its signatories to admit IAEA's snap inspections.

    The current nuclear crisis came after Iran on Jan. 10 resumed nuclear research work and virtually rejected a Russian proposal to transfer its uranium enrichment to Russia.

    In response of Iran's defiant move, the European trio of Britain, France and Germany called for the IAEA board of governors' meeting earlier this month.

    The European Union, based on the U.S. accusation that Iran is developing nuclear weapons secretly, holds that Iran's full mastery of nuclear fuel cycle technology would possibly lead to military usage.

    Iran insists that its nuclear program is fully peaceful and aimed at meeting rising domestic demand for electricity. Enditem