Ahmadinejad: Iran won't give up nuclear rights

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday Iran won't give up "one iota" of its right to pursue a peaceful nuclear program. Ahmadinejad reiterated his uncompromising stance as Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani held talks with European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Berlin, described by an EU official as "very intense." "In negotiations, they tell us to suspend (uranium) enrichment even for a day on the pretext of a technical problem so that they continue talks," state-run television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying Wednesday. "Our response to them is that no one has the right to give up the rights of the Iranian nation."