Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has rejected as “illegal” a UN nuclear watchdog resolution over the country’s disputed nuclear activities.
“Under pressure of a few superficially powerful countries … the International Atomic Energy Agency passed an illegal resolution against the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday in a televised speech in the central city of Isfahan.
Ahmadinejad said Iran would enrich its own uranium up to 20 per cent purity to be used as nuclear fuel.
The IAEA resolution criticised Tehran for defying a UN Security Council ban on uranium enrichment and rebuked it for secretly building a uranium enrichment facility near the city of Qom.
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