NCRI – Ali Khamenei, mullahs’ supreme leader in a speech on Sunday vowed that Iranian regime would press ahead with its nuclear program, two days after major powers said they had prepared a new offer to convince Tehran's regime to halt its nuclear activities.
“We will continue on our own path with strength” and “no threats would deter” us to “back down”, the sate-run radio quoted Khamenei as saying on a visit to the southern Fars province.
Khamenei's remarks came after the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia — and Germany agreed on Friday to offer a new package of incentives to the Iranian mullahs in return for ceasing uranium enrichment activities, a major component of building a nuclear bomb.
The UN Security Council has adopted three resolution imposing sanctions on the ruling mullahs in Iran for continuation of uranium enrichment activities. Iranian regime so far has defied the UN Security Council resolutions.
Although Khamenei made no reference to the new package, his comments are the latest sign from Iranian regime that it has no intention of stopping its drive to obtain nuclear weapons.
On February 24, quoting Ahamadinejad’s remarks, the state-run news agency IRNA said, “The nuclear crisis in its new form began in the beginning of the summer of 2002, when the Monafeqin [the term used by the Iranian regime to describe the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)], published a report on Natanz and Arak nuclear sites. The International Atomic Energy Agency got involved… and resolutions were adopted one after the other.”
