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Iran to continue cooperation with UN nuclear agency, president

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Jan 14, IRNA
President-Press Conference
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran would proceed with cooperation with UN nuclear agency on on-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

He said in his second press conference since taking office that Iran respects NPT and religious teachings forbid weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

"We don't care about other countries possessing arsenals of nuclear arms and WMD," President Ahmadinejad said.

"Those who think they have become powerful by possessing MWD should know that we don't have such a belief according to religious obligation. We believe in peaceful application of nuclear energy." "The so-called advocates of world peace and security should respect international conventions to assure the international community that they don't want to impose their belief on us," President Ahmadinejad said.

A reporter asked about position of his government about Israel, he said no new position has been taken.

"I asked two questions and expect a reply from them," President Ahmadinejad said.

"The first question is where have those who are ruling Palestine and allow themselves to destroy houses and systematically make several thousand Palestinians homeless come from?"
"The second question is how should those who have immigrated to Palestinian territory have the right to determine destiny of native people of Palestine whereas the Palestinian people themselves have no sovereignty right?"
"Iran says that it believes that the native people of Palestine both Muslims and non-Muslims should be given the right to determine their own fate and how you, the so-called advocates of democracy, do not accept such a proposal."
On Western states support for the mass killing of Palestinians under the pretext of Holocaust in Europe, the question is that if they claim responsibility for the Holocaust, why do they regard as anti-peace anyone who raises a question on the matter? he asked.

"I'm a university teacher and I will not drop my question due to the hue and cry they have launched against my question. If you had been anti-semitic in the past, you should make good on it yourself.

ou are not entitled to take a wrong action and force others to pay for it. If there had been no anti-semitism in Europe, ok., why do you make hue and cry?," he asked.

"In the modern world no one agrees not to speak about an issue.

Those who have such a mentality have medieval mindset. Just like the event that they forced a scientist not to say the Earth is moving, otherwise, he would face guillotine," President Ahmadinejad said.

"These are the same people who had guillotine and sword at that time (middle age) and they possess nuclear, microbiological and chemical arms today," President Ahmadinejad said.

He called on Western scientists to speak about the reality.

"You cannot stop them from speaking. A country which prevents scientists from speaking is doomed."
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