Sanctions would just increase Iran's motivation, Ahmadinejad says

Tehran - Sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programs would just increase the country's motivation for more technological progress, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday.

"You cannot intimidate our nation by such threats and cannot hinder our progress," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Sirjan in south-eastern Iran, where he inaugurated an industrial project.

"The more you [the world powers] try to hinder us by force, the more such threats will increase the people's motivation," he said in the speech carried live by the news network Khabar.

The United States and its allies suspect Iran is using a civilian nuclear program as a guise toward acquiring nuclear weapons and, therefore, have called for renewed sanctions against the Islamic state through the United Nations Security Council.

Council members China and Russia have so far resisted the Western call for sanctions.

"We are accused of something which we have not even once considered in nuclear projects," Ahmadinejad said.

"So do not start a new adventure," he warned the world powers while reiterating Iran's readiness to cooperate with them on global nuclear disarmament.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/316955,sanctions-would-just-increase-irans-motivation-ahmadinejad-says.html.