TOYAKO: Rejecting the demands of the western country about Iran’s nuclear programme, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the Group of Eight leaders and vowed the Islamic Republic will continue uranium enrichment to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In a letter to a Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, Ahmadinejad said, “They (the G8 leaders) may imagine that they can maintain the orderly establishment and get rid of their own problems without paying attention to others’ benefit or dignity,” Ahmadinejad said in the letter.
“But such an attitude has ended in failure again and again and it’s as if they were walking faster on the road to an abrupt cliff,” Ahmadinejad said. The looming end of a single superpower world entered around the United States after World War II is apparent to all countries, the Iranian president said. “If they are worried about (the future) of human beings, they have to accept the change and straighten themselves,” he added.
In the letter, he rejected the latest offer from six world powers aimed at ending a standoff over its contested nuclear programme which has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiraling. “We are not going to accept any illegitimate demand,” he wrote. The new offer holds out a package of technological and economic incentives in return for Iran suspending its uranium enrichment activities — a process the West fears the Islamic republic might use to make an atomic bomb.
A statement of the G8 leaders to be released as early as Tuesday is expected to include strong calls for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, sources said. Last month, G8 foreign ministers said in a statement they “strongly urge” Iran to cooperate fully with the UN International Atomic Energy Agency and “act in a more responsible and constructive manner in the region.”-SANA
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