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U.K. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett (C) speaking in Vienna before the foreign ministers of the six world powers on Thursday. (AP)
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Ahmadinejad vows West will not deny Iran nuclear technology
By News Agencies

TEHRAN - Iran insists that the West will not deprive it of nuclear technology and must drop conditions on negotiations, defying stepped up pressure from the UN's major powers to accept a new package of incentives to stop sensitive nuclear activities.

Iranian officials did not directly respond to the package agreed on a day earlier by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, which calls on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. Details of the offer has yet to be formally presented to Tehran.

But Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said Europe should "leave out excuse-seeking and illogical conditions and come back to negotiations and cooperations."
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"Iran is ready for any unconditional, just and indiscriminatory negotiations," he was quoted as saying by state-run television Friday.

Hard-liner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also struck a defiant note, vowing that "the efforts of some Western countries to deprive us will not bear any fruit."

"The reason of their opposition is not their claim of concern over nuclear weapons, but Iran's access to the technology that means opening of the way for all independent countries, especially Islamic countries to the advanced technology," he was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.

The united front among the United States, Europe, Russia and China - reached in talks in Vienna on Thursday - puts unprecedented pressure on Tehran to accept the deal.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that Tehran must respond quickly. Otherwise, she made clear Iran would face UN sanctions.

Details of the offer have not been made public, but diplomats in Vienna said the deal outlines incentives for Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and return to the negotiating table - with the United States included in the talks.

Uranium enrichment is a crucial process that can produce either fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material needed for a bomb.

The U.S. and several European countries believe Iran is using its civilian nuclear program as a cover to produce nuclear weapons. Tehran says the program aims only to generate electricity.

Iranian state media were dismissive of Thursday's gathering in Vienna. "The noisy 5+1 meeting ended without a new proposal for Iran," state television said.

The United States announced earlier this week that it would enter direct talks with Iran if it agrees to the suspension - the first time it has agreed to such a meeting since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled its ally the shah of Iran.

Mohammad Saeedi, the deputy head of Iran's nuclear program, was quoted Friday as ruling out the U.S. condition, calling it "a big insult."

"Tehran is determined to conclude its peaceful nuclear program," he said, according to the ISNA news agency. "The Iranian people will not allow us to suspend enrichment ... Accepting the U.S. conditions is almost impossible."

But an Iranian analyst said the mounting pressure narrows Iran's room to maneuver - particular after its longtime allies Russia any and fastidiousness, will examine the proposal and that a positive approach will emerge," he said
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