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Ahmadinejad: Iranians not to retreat one iota from nuclear right

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Sanandaj, Kurdestan Prov, Nov 16, IRNA
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday morning that the Iranian nation will not retreat "an iota" from its nuclear right in spite of mounting pressure from enemies.

The president, addressing residents of the border city of Baneh, 270km northwest of Kordestan's capital, Sanandaj, before leaving for Saqqez, 200km north of the capital, said "resistance is the key to victory."

The enemies are putting obstacles in the way of Iranians' progress in the field of peaceful nuclear energy, President Ahmadinejad said, adding "they want to keep their monopoly on nuclear energy and thereby dictate on nations."
"However, they (enemies) should know that the people of Iran will resist and will defend their legitimate right," stressed the president.

He added that enemies of Iran who failed to break its resistance during the eight years of Iraqi-imposed war (1980-88) have now resorted to negative propaganda and intimidation to break the will of the Iranian nation.

Iran is only one step away from celebrating victory in its peaceful nuclear program, said the president, and promised that this great celebration will come before the end of the current Iranian year (started March 20, 2006).

President Ahmadinejad arrived in this western province Wednesday morning for a two-day visit, his 21st to various provinces of the country since he took office in 2005.

On Wednesday he met with provincial officials, religious figures, elites and families of war martyrs as well as war veterans in the cities of Sanandaj, Marivan, Sarvabad, Kamyaran before leaving for the cities of Baneh and Saqqez earlier today.

He and his cabinet have already visited the provinces of Tehran South Khorasan, Sistan-Baluchestan, Ilam, Qom, Hormuzgan, Bushehr, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Lorestan, Golestan, Kohgilouyeh-Boyer Ahmad and Khorasan Razavi, Zanjan, Markazi, Qazvin and Hamedan, East Azarbaijan, North Khorasan and Ardebil.

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