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Ahmadinejad: make love not war?
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| By Israel Insider staff July 7, 2008 |
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted on Monday that Iran would never give up its nuclear rights and dismissed calls for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported.
He scorned the carrot and stick approach of the Western allies: "On one side they (world powers) ask to negotiate and on the other they threaten and say that we must give in to their illegal demands and renounce our rights," he added.
Ahmadinejad's defiant comments came days after Iran gave some kind of a response to an offer from six world powers aiming to break the deadlock in the nuclear standoff, reported offering Iran technological incentives in exchange for suspending uranium enrichment, which the West fears could be used to make a nuclear weapon.
"We are in favor of dialogue but we will negotiate in a just atmosphere and on common subjects because negotiations in an unbalanced climate will have no result," Ahmadinejad added.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner did not sound too optimistic, saying he did not think that Iran's response to the package, "provides great hope. But it gives a little bit of hope."
Lambasting the "satanic desires" of US President George W. Bush, Ahmadinejad shrugged off the idea that the Americans or Israelis, or the two allies together would attack Iran.
"Even if some countries like Israel and the United States join forces they will not dare to attack Iran and they know it very well," he said."They know that they cannot use the language of force against Iran and must bend in the face of the will of the Iranian people," he added.
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