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Iran vows not to budge from its right to pursue nuclear energy

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, June 11, IRNA -- Chairman of the Expediency Council (EC) 
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Friday that Iran will never 
give up its right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
"No official in a country like Iran will ever dare deprive his 
own people from the benefits of this decisive technology and, more 
significantly, from an important science to which they have a right," 
Rafsanjani said in his Tehran Friday Prayer sermon. 
"The Islamic Republic has never been guilty of blackmail or made 
concessions on minor issues and with more reason will not be 
compelled to give concessions on the more important issue of 
technology to produce nuclear energy." 
Rafsanjani said Iran will continue its pursuit of technology to 
develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
"We are against using this science for military affairs and we 
will continue in our path," he told worshipers at the campus of 
Tehran University. 
"If the world cooperates with us on the peaceful use of nuclear 
technology, we will be able to resolve the issue. And if they try to 
bully us, then each will carry out his perceived duties." 
Rafsanjani said the draft of a recent anti-Iran resolution that 
was sponsored by France, Germany and the UK as well as the final 
statement of the G-8 summit reveals that the US and Europe have 
formed a partnership to deprive Iran of the benefits of nuclear 
technology to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
"If, indeed, the US and Europe have made the decision and 
continue in this path, they should know that it is a decision they 
will definitely regret," he said. 
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