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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking in Tehran on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Last update - 19:53 30/06/2007
Report: Ahmadinejad says Iran is nuclear, cannot be turned back
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies

Israel Radio reported Saturday that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has released a statement saying Iran has become a nuclear nation and no one can cause the country to backtrack.

"Our enemies cannot harm us, not because they don't wish to, but because they cannot do so due to their difficult situation," Israel Radio quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday defended a controversial fuel rationing plan in Iran, state-television IRIB reported.
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According to Isral Radio, Ahmadinejad said the rationing of fuel has made Iran better able to withstand pressure from the international community. He was referring to sanctions placed on the country following its refusal to halt uranium enrichment as part of its nuclear program.

He said the enemies of Iran have acknowledged the fact that the rationing of fuel has made his country "undefeatable," the radio reported.

Khamenei said in a meeting with government officials that the surplus from the rationing plan and non-import of oil could be used for other development plans in the country.

Although Iran is a leading OPEC member and the world's fourth biggest oil producer with a daily oil production of 4.2 million barrels, the Islamic state must import more than 40 per cent of the country's oil needs and spend 5 - 8 billion dollars annually on imports due to a lack of refineries and a preference for oil exports.

Riots broke out in protest against the decision, and several gas stations were set on fire.

Ahmadinejad defended the plan as a complex decision that required national will to help the country gain invulnerability to international threats.

Iranian officials had earlier said the plan should also be regarded as a precautionary move in case of United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear projects.

Ahmadinejad further called for a switch from oil to natural gas in order to further decrease the necessity of oil imports.

The harsh protests confirmed the government's fears that the move would dent Ahmadinejad's popularity before parliamentary elections in March next year and even negatively affect his chances for re-election in 2009.


Report: IAEA team to visit Iran
A team from the UN nuclear watchdog will visit Iran on July 11-13 to discuss how to resolve questions about Tehran's disputed nuclear program, the ISNA news agency quoted an Iranian official as saying on Saturday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency last week said Iran had invited it to send a team after Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, agreed a "plan of action" for clearing up issues with IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei.

"A team consisting of the agency's deputy and some officials? will come to Tehran to study a working plan that will answer all the remaining issues in regard to Iran's nuclear program," Iran's IAEA envoy, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told ISNA
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  1.   Iranian leader says it is now a Nuclear state 17:22  |  Roxy 30/06/07
  2.   Albert Einstein is turning in his grave right now 18:35  |  Gil 30/06/07
  3.   Guess AhMADinejad is asking the west to destroy Iran 18:57  |  Kipperraes 30/06/07
  4.   Energy independence 19:08  |  Pablo B 30/06/07
  5.   # 1 Only Isreal in trouble 19:10  |  Guy 30/06/07
  6.   Support a massive Jewish emigration to Alaska NOW!! 19:32  |  Abel 30/06/07
  7.   Guy in Surrey 19:39  |  rich 30/06/07
  8.   Wonderfully funny spin 19:48  |  British Leftie 30/06/07
  9.   #5 Guy 19:54  |  Chris Linthwaite 30/06/07
  10.   ABEL-STOP DREAMING. 20:03  |  MIRA ISRAEL 30/06/07
  11.   to mr abel number 6 20:12  |  Deivy Frajman 30/06/07
  12.   Changing the subject 20:21  |  Mark Lincoln 30/06/07
  13.   Get out now 20:29  |  Charlie 30/06/07
  14.   Ahmadinejad says Iran is nuclear, cannot be turned back 20:33  |  aasim ali 30/06/07
  15.   The truth is 20:54  |  Hunter 30/06/07
  16.   The real aim 21:16  |  Dale 30/06/07
  17.   Iran needs nuclear weapons 21:25  |  Rachel C. 30/06/07
  18.   To UK Letfist Dreamers 21:58  |  GZLives 30/06/07
  19.   Guy you are absolutely wrong, 22:02  |  Gil 30/06/07
  20.   To Abel : You can move to Alaska 22:03  |  CM 30/06/07
  21.   I SEE THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF IRAN 22:09  |  The Prophet 30/06/07
  22.   Nuclear Iran 22:16  |  madeleine7 30/06/07
  23.   Oh yeah, watch this.....KAAABOOOOOM!!! 22:17  |  Witness 30/06/07
  24.   He is a LIAR. He could turn it back if he wanted to. 22:20  |  EvacuateNow 30/06/07
  25.   Ahmadinejad 22:26  |  Natallie Durson 30/06/07
  26.   Ugh, do you suppose he is compensating for something :) 22:31  |  Small 30/06/07
  27.   Albert Einstein didnt want to hurt people 22:54  |  Michael 30/06/07
  28.   They told that they needs nukes to have more energy 22:56  |  Just Cause 30/06/07
  29.   Natallie, The Fact That He Can`t Control His Mouth... 23:07  |  Yosemite 30/06/07
  30.   Abel - You need some medical attention 23:13  |  Cy 30/06/07
  31.   To Number 16 GZLIves, WE ALL AGREE!!!!! 23:19  |  Edward 30/06/07
  32.   "Abel", don`t you mean Cain? 00:33  |  Jake 01/07/07
  33.   Just Cause 00:41  |  Mark Lincoln 01/07/07
  34.   Baloney, IAEA and Mossad Chief of Staff 00:43  |  ILSupporter 01/07/07
  35.   Praise God for the brave Iranians in France. Thankful to see 01:18  |  Virginia 01/07/07
  36.   Iran is nuclear 01:44  |  tom 01/07/07
  37.   Chemical and Biological Weapons 01:47  |  Hunter 01/07/07
  38.   to # 21 02:08  |  Hunter 01/07/07
  39.   Is he Using the Nuclear to produce Energi? 02:11  |  Michael 01/07/07
  40.   Guy #3 -- you contridict yourself 02:21  |  bbl 01/07/07
  41.   Abel #6 -- Alaska is awesome but your directives are inane 02:24  |  bbl 01/07/07
  42.   Michael #27 -- Japans defense minister disagrees 02:31  |  bbl 01/07/07
  43.   keep squeezing Iran on all fronts 02:40  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 01/07/07
  44.   To GZLives? Please re-read my post... we don`t disagree! 02:54  |  British Leftie 01/07/07
  45.   To #42 So he means if Civilians die its allright? 02:56  |  Michael 01/07/07
  46.   Rachel C 03:29  |  Bill 01/07/07
  47.   Abel: Hows that Ibiza vacation? 03:32  |  Bill 01/07/07
  48.   The fate of Iran 03:32  |  Garrett DeRose 01/07/07
  49.   Israel is not a democracy 04:49  |  Rachel C. 01/07/07
  50.   wake up every one israel was always doomed 05:16  |  hashoon 01/07/07
  51.   Do you believe everything you read in the papers? 10:54  |  not for profit proph 01/07/07
  52.   iran the only super power in the middle east 17:36  |  crab ram 01/07/07
  53.   He`s Squirming Now; Keep Building the Pressure 19:04  |  Solon 01/07/07
  54.   #15 Hunter - Israel join NPT - HAHA 07:06  |  keith 02/07/07
  55.   Iran is importing gasoline, not oil, as clueless Haaretz says 08:32  |  keith 02/07/07
  56.   what does this word mean???? 07:30  |  Lauren Fay 23/10/08
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