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TEHRAN : President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday insisted on Iran 's right to nuclear technology, ahead of a key UN report likely to find that Tehran has failed to meet demands to halt sensitive atomic work.
Iran risks tougher UN sanctions over its controversial nuclear drive that the West fears is a cover for ambitions to build an atomic bomb.
But it has insisted it will not freeze uranium enrichment work as a precondition for talks with the international community to try to end the long-running standoff.
"If some assume they can violate the country's rights and stand against it, they must know that they are wrong," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in northern Iran carried by the ISNA news agency.
" Iran ians defend their rights and the nuclear right is a demand of all Iran ians. Nobody in the world can deprive them of their rights even one iota."
UN chief Ban Ki-moon was to hold talks on Thursday with International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei, who is to issue a report by Friday on Iran 's compliance with UN demands to halt enrichment.
The report is expected to formally confirm that Iran is pressing ahead with enrichment, a process which can be used to make atomic weapons as well as nuclear fuel.
Iran , which says it has the right to peaceful nuclear technology as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, ignored a UN deadline on Wednesday to halt the process.
The deadline was set by the UN Security Council on December 23 when it imposed sanctions and gave the IAEA 60 days to declare whether Iran has implemented a "full and sustained suspension" of uranium enrichment.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Berlin on Wednesday that she would be consulting with other major powers on the next steps to take.
Washington, which is also on the offensive against Iran over alleged meddling in Iraq and support for what the United States terms terrorist groups in the region, has already said it would seek tougher penalties.
But Rice also reaffirmed a US offer to end a 27-year rupture in American- Iran ian relations if Tehran complies with the UN conditions.
"We offered to reverse 27 years of policy to engage in the context of the six (parties), and I said I would meet with my Iran ian counterpart any place, any where, any time if they suspend," she said.
The limited sanctions adopted in December specifically target trade and officials involved in Iran 's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
It is not clear what further penalties Iran could face for failing to obey the deadline, and UN diplomats have appealed for patience saying they need to read ElBaradei's report before considering the next course of action.
But some acknowledge that a new resolution tightening sanctions would be inevitable, amid speculation Washington is preparing for possible military action after sending a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the region.
Iran ian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tehran was prepared for possible US military action, but believed dialogue was the best way to resolve the dispute.
"The United States put forward two options: the first is to use violence and the second cooperation," he told reporters on a visit to Turkey. "We are ready for both eventualities but, of course, we have always preferred cooperation."
Mottaki said the dispute should be resolved through a "diplomatic solution," and that threats would not force Tehran into making concessions. - AFP/de
22 Feb 2007
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