Irani president warns world powers
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned yesterday that world powers would regret any moves to slap new sanctions on Iran, while stressing Tehran was still ready for a UN-brokered nuclear fuel exchange deal.Ahmadinejad's latest salvo at world powers came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured the Gulf to earn backing for possible sanctions against Iran for defiantly pursuing its nuclear programme.
"If anybody seeks to create problems for Iran, our response will not be like before," the hard-line Iranian president told a packed news conference in the capital Tehran.
"Something in response will be done which will make them (the world powers) regret" their move, he said.
Ahmadinejad said negotiations over an UN-drafted nuclear fuel exchange were "not closed yet," and expressed readiness to buy the material even from Iran's arch-foe the United States.Last year the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed sending Iranian low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for further enrichment, denying Tehran refining capacity powers fear could be used to help build an atomic bomb.
The offer would have seen the uranium returned to Iran in a high-grade form for use in a Tehran medical research reactor, but the plan has been rejected by the Islamic republic.
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