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    WEST HAS LOST NUCLEAR STANDOFF WITH IRAN - AHMADINEJAD

    RIA Novosti
    15:02 | 11/ 06/ 2008

    TEHRAN, June 11 (RIA Novosti) - Iran's president said on Wednesday
    that the West had lost the confrontation with Tehran over the Islamic
    Republic's nuclear program.

    The diplomatic standoff between Iran and the West began almost six
    years ago over suspicions that Tehran was secretly developing atomic
    weapons. Iran is currently under three sets of relatively mild UN
    Security Council sanctions after defying international demands to
    halt uranium enrichment, which it claims is needed for electricity
    generation.

    "Our enemies used every opportunity to pressurize us in the political
    and nuclear fields, and threatened us with the use of force. However,
    they have lost and they have no room for maneuver," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    said in a televised statement.

    In a message to U.S. President George W. Bush, the Iranian leader
    said his time was over. "You cannot damage a single centimeter of
    Iran's territory," he said.

    Iran maintains that it has never been involved in research into the
    development of nuclear weapons.

    A report released by the U.S. intelligence community in late 2007
    said that Iran had ceased attempts to create a nuclear bomb in
    2003. U.S. President George Bush responded that, "Iran was dangerous,
    Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the know
    how to make a nuclear weapon."

    When asked if military action remained an option, the president
    answered, "The best diplomacy - effective diplomacy - is one in which
    all options are on the table."
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