Iran warns it will move ahead with atomic program
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Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 6, 2006
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A defiant Iran has warned the 35 board nations of the International
Atomic Energy Agency that it will press ahead with full-scale
uranium enrichment if they push for UN Security Council action this
week over concerns Tehran is seeking nuclear arms.
"If Iran's nuclear dossier is referred to the UN Security Council,
(large scale) uranium enrichment will be resumed," Iran's top
nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani told reporters in Tehran. "If they
want to use force, we will pursue our own path."
Larijani also said Iran would not abandon nuclear research, or back
down from pursuing a peaceful nuclear program if the Security
Council took action against it.