Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday shruggled off a possible new UN sanctions resolution against Tehran's nuclear program, terming the previous resolutions as "worthless paper", the state television reported.
Ahmadinejad made the defiant comments to reporters after a cabinet meeting, while Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, along with his predecessor Ali Larijani were talking with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Rome over the disputed nuclear issue.
"The nuclear dossier in the (UN) Security Council is a worthless paper and it could be added any day," as "it lacks any value and effect for the Iranian people," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
"If someone wants to decide the level our rights outside the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it will not be accepted," said Ahmadinejad, adding "Iran would never negotiate over its own right".
The United States and some other Western countries fear Iran may try to develop atomic bombs under a civilian cover of its nuclear drive, however Tehran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The UN Security Council has already issued two sanction resolutions against Iran's nuclear program since last December, but both of them failed to persuade the Islamic Republic to give up uranium enrichment work, a sensitive activity which could produce nuclear fuel for power plant and atomic weapons at the sametime.
Washington is trying to push the UN Security Council to adopt at hird resolution against Tehran's defiance, but Iran's cooperation with the IAEA and EU in the past months has let other world powers agree to wait a nuclear report from the UN nuclear watchdog until November to make their decision.
Source:Xinhua
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