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President: Iran to set conditions for future talks with West

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, June 24, IRNA -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the Islamic Republic of Iran will set conditions for future talks with the European states on national nuclear program next week.

President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with clerics and servants of the mosques.

Iran will usher in fresh methodology for future talks with the European states in reaction to their hostile approach crystalized in passing resolution with the United Nations Security Council, something which will bring them shame, he said.

The president's remarks was in reference to a request made by the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to resume talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

President Ahmadinejad downgraded the U.N. sanctions against Iran in addition to the illegal process of passing the resolution on the basis of unfounded allegations about Iranian nuclear program.

"Some assumed that passing illegal resolutions at the Security Council against Iran will deal a blow to Iranian national economy. Instead, they should know that these resolutions have boosted national resolve to strengthen national economy."

He reaffirmed Iranian commitment to Non-Proliferation Treaty and Disarmament and said that Iran has proved commitment to NPT and the Disarmament in the Conference on 'Revision of NPT and Disarmament' in New York by adding 22 clauses to the Convention.

Elaborating on the current challenge in the international community vis-a-vis the greed of the veto-wielding powers at the Security Council, President Ahmadinejad said that the world has been divided into two halves -- materialistic world led by the US and justice-seeking world led by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The message of the Islamic Republic of Iran to world nations is resistance to the global arrogance, he underlined.

The era of global arrogance has been over and a new enlightening is emerging, he pointed out.

The US hegemony, which is against divine preaching of holy prophets and has stockpiles of conventional and non-conventional weapons and never hesitates to carnage scores of innocent people, can do nothing against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the president said.