TEHRAN, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A senior Iranian
official on Tuesday kept defiance toward further sanctions by the United Nations
Security Council, vowing Tehran would not suspend the sensitive uranium
enrichment work.
"We don't welcome (UN) to adopt another resolution,
but there's no need to worry," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told a
press conference.
"Suspension is completely impossible and cannot be
brought up, they have already given up this; in this respect, sanction is not
new and will have no effect on people's progress," he added.
Meanwhile, the spokesman urged the UN Security Council to
move reasonably on Iran's nuclear case because other options, sanctions in
particular, would only complicate the current situation.
When asked about the looming threat of a military attack
on Iran, Elham said "we will give a serious, firm and appropriate response as
called for by circumstances."
The UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1737 on
Dec. 23, 2006, demanding Iran stop all enrichment-related and reprocessing
activities including research and development and work on all heavy
water-related projects in 60 days.
Iran refused to heed the Security Council's demand by
the deadline that fell on Feb. 21, 2007.
The five permanent members of the UN Security
Council, Britain,the United States, France, China and Russia, plus Germany have
been discussing further measures against Iran's hardline
stance.
UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Consultations on
the new Security Council draft resolution against Iran seemed making progress,
UN diplomats said Monday.
Ambassadors from the six countries, including the
United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, met again Monday
afternoon at the UN Headquarters in New York on the elements of the draft
resolution imposing sanctions on Iran against its unyielding nuclear program.
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United States said
Monday that it discusses the issue of Iran sanctions with other major countries
over the weekend to try to resolve differences among them.
TEHRAN, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad wants to attend a UN Security Council meeting to defend in person
his country's nuclear program, state television reported on Sunday.
TEHRAN, March 10 (Xinhua) -- Iran has renewed its offer of
opening the gates of its nuclear facilities for foreign tourists to show the
peaceful nature of its nuclear program, the official IRNA news agency reported
on Saturday.
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