Iran’s Ahmadinejad threatens to quit NPT

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 11 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the international community increased pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons program. Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Feb. 11 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the international community increased pressure on Tehran over its suspected nuclear weapons program.

“The policy of the Islamic Republic has been to pursue its nuclear efforts for peaceful purposes in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s NPT, but, if under these regulations the Iranian nation’s right is destroyed, it will reconsider its policy regarding the NPT”, Ahmadinejad told demonstrators in Tehran on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

“Iran suspended its activities and allowed inspections of all of its nuclear files and sites by the IAEA in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency and even more than that, but after three years they say that they don’t want the Iranian nation to have peaceful nuclear technology”, Ahmadinejad said.

“After three and a half years of negotiations we became sure that the West was opposed to the Iranian nation’s progress and scientific advancements and they tell us bluntly that we don’t need nuclear energy”.