TEHERAN, July 25 (RIA Novosti, Nikolai Terekhov) - President of Iran Mohammad Khatami said that his country did not intend to give up its right to create a full nuclear cycle, the presidential press office said Monday.
Khatami said that Iran would never give up its legitimate right to develop peaceful nuclear technologies and create a full nuclear cycle. He added that the voluntary suspension of uranium enrichment in the country was only temporary.
The president said Iran had demonstrated its good intentions on many occasions and had suspended operations at its nuclear center that did not relate to uranium enrichment. It had also complied with a request from the European Union to delay its decision on resuming uranium enrichment. "But this cannot continue any longer," the president said.
Khatami said that Iran was ready to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European three (Great Britain, France and Germany). He added that his country would continue to work with the IAEA and the European three and that he was sure that simple and logical solutions could be found, if U.S. pressure did not prevail.
Pursuant to earlier agreements, the European Union will submit draft proposals to resolve the problem of "Iran's nuclear dossier" by late July. But Iran insists that the proposals should provide for the resumption of uranium enrichment. Teheran says that if they do not, it will lift the moratorium and continue developing a full nuclear cycle on its own.
