IRAN
Nation to stop cooperating with U.N.
Iran announced it would partially suspend cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog while hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the latest U.N. sanctions would not halt the country's uranium enrichment.
Iranian state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that the additional Security Council sanctions imposed March 24 "stem from the hostility by some powers against Iran."
"It is not a new issue for the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad said, adding the new sanctions "will not halt Iran's peaceful nuclear program even for a second."
The Japan Times Weekly: March 31, 2007 (C) All rights reserved
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