Reuters: Iran will not back down “one iota” in its nuclear dispute with Western powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a huge rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on Monday. TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran will not back down “one iota” in its nuclear dispute with Western powers, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a huge rally marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on Monday.
“They should know that the Iranian nation will not retreat one iota from its nuclear rights,” he told the crowd, which had gathered in the capital Tehran for the 29th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah.
“They … cannot do anything except to play with papers and make propaganda,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to world powers’ discussions of a third U.N. Security Council resolution against Tehran over nuclear work the West fears has military aims, though Tehran denies this.
(editing by Tim Pearce)
