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12:56 GMT, May 07, 2008 Latest Headlines...

Tehran not interested in foreign incentives - Iranian diplomat

     MOSCOW.  May  7 (Interfax) - Iran believes it has a sovereign right
to develop  a  nuclear program and does not need any incentives from the
international  community,  said  Iranian Ambassador in Moscow Gholamreza
Ansari.
     "Our  nuclear  rights are defined by international norms and in the
framework  of  the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, and therefore it is
our lawful  and  sovereign  right,"  he  said  on  the Ekho Moskvy radio
station on Wednesday.
     The six international mediators on the Iranian nuclear problems met
in London  last  week and "decided to grant certain incentives to Iran,"
he recalled.
     "But Iran does not need incentives," Ansari said.
     "We  do  not accept visions whereby one is the father and the other
is the son, one is a teacher and the other is a student," he said.
     "We need equal rights," the ambassador said. 

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