President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran will not relinquish its nuclear rights enshrined by Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Addressing large groups of Tehranis at Azadi Square on the 29th triumph anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, President Ahmadinejad said, `They should know that the Iranian nation will not retreat from its nuclear rights.
` `They cannot do anything except to play with papers and make propaganda,` Ahmadinejad said, referring to US provocation with the Security Council to pass another resolution against Iran.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the big powers are damaging their own prestige by further anti-Iran provocations.
President Ahmadinejad said perseverance of the Iranian nation and the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have made the country victorious in terms of the logic of the nuclear program.
Iran has reaffirmed commitment to Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
He said enemies falsely supposed that they can, by threats, resolutions, sanctions, and psychological war, make Iran retreat, but they have been wrong as usual.
`On Iran`s nuclear program, they spoiled reputation of their own and that of the UN Security Council, proving inefficiency of the Council.
`Some UN Security Council`s permanent members, in the name of peace and security, made anti-Iran decisions based on their wrong perception and dictated it to the Council.
`Unfortunately, instead of apologizing to the great Iranian nation, some powers are complaining against non-observation of the UN Security Council`s former decisions.
I tell them not to insist on your mistakes.
They should know that the Iranian nation will never give up its nuclear rights.
` He said the west should find a way to make good on its past mistakes.
`We have repeatedly announced that nuclear activities of the Iranian nation are within framework of laws and regulations.
I recommend them (westerners) to make recourse to justice and the law.
That`s to the interest of all,` he added.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran will launch two more rockets in the future.
President Ahmadinejad said, `Two more complementary rockets will be launched and we hope that with God`s grace, the first fully home-made satellite will hence be in the orbit next summer.
` Ahmadinejad said the first such rocket was launched with full success with God`s grace and information got on earth are now at the disposal of Iranian scientists.
He said presence in the space is today a requisite for honorable life of a nation because all major scientific competitions take place in the space and all the scientific, geographic, telecommunication, photo and communication information are obtained through the space.
He then pointed to a joint satellite project Iran undertook with Russia, which he said is one of the most complicated technologies on earth.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran`s nuclearization has not been an ordinary issue.
President Ahmadinejad said, `The great Iranian nation and the world should bear the point in mind that Iran`s nuclearization has not been an ordinary issue as the Bahman 22 event was not ordinary.
` Ahmadinejad said, `All the countries, which have been resisting several years for their nuclearization cause, attained the wish eventually by undertaking heavy political and economic commitments -- I do not wish to name the countries.
` The least commitment the groups of countries accepted was their bowing to the hegemonic system and supporting the international criminal Zionism, he added.
`But you (Iranian) nation are now mastering nuclear fuel without giving the least concession and without bowing to any illegal relation,` he added.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iranian nation distances itself from the arrogant people and compromisers and will remain firm in safeguarding its ideals.
President Ahmadinejad said the compromisers are making efforts to underestimate all positive works and progress of Iranian nation with their hostility.
He accused the said group of engagement with enemies and providing them with information, thus emboldening them to issue sanctions against Iran over its peaceful nuclear program.
`Those who have regular meetings with the enemies and provide them with information, telling them there is difference among officials of the system and encouraging them to issue harsher sanctions against the Iranian nation, are not part of the Iranian nation and the nation will reject them.
` He said this group of people, though few in number, have media, power and influence to achieve their ends, supposing they can escape justice.
Stressing that Iran`s nuclear issue has come to a close, Ahmadinejad said, `That`s westerners` problem who are bewildered how to save face and answer to the world why they issued resolutions against the Iranian nation based on false information.
` He said the great Iranian nation is the only decision maker on country`s issues and will not let anybody violate its rights.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that unemployment rate in Iran has reached 9/8 percent in this year`s fall.
President Ahmadinejad said when his government started work in 2005, there were three million unemployed people in the country.
Ahmadinejad said that over the past two years, 1,200,000 new workforce had joined the job market annually.
He said during the past two years, rls 150,6 billion shares of state enterprises have been offered to the public, while the figure was only rls 20,7 billion in the past 15 years.
The president said government has come to the conclusion that low productivity and efficiency, harsh price fluctuations, and rent seeking are core of many problems.
Pointing to his government`s plan to launch drastic economic reforms as of next year, he said the subsidy system has been on an unjust basis.
Government now spends more than rls 950,000 billion on subsidies to energy, water, agricultural crops and bread annually, said the president, adding that more than 70 percent of the subsidies are directly or indirectly forwarded to three top deciles of the society, while seven low social deciles only benefit from 30 percent of the government subsidies.
He said improper subsidy payment system in Iran is the root cause of many plights, inflation and corruption.
`The country`s economy today is undemocratic, subsidy-oriented and based on rents.
That`s unfair and should be reformed.
` He said that in the near future he will address the nation on the upcoming 8th Majlis elections.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he is not alone in his nuclear and anti-Zionist stances and is backed by the nation.
`The world should know that Ahmadinejad is a drop of the endless ocean of Iranian nation, declaring stances of the nation and of their dear leadership,` said Ahmadinejad in reaction to a claim of a European diplomat that the Iranian president was alone in his stances vis-a-vis the country`s peaceful nuclear issue and Palestine and people and officials do not approve the stances.
`In nuclear and other issues, there are so many such cases, which I am not interested to make the public unhappy by citing them.
But you should know that in nuclear and other issues and in defending rights of the nation, we will proceed way step by step and from one bunker to another,` Ahmadinejad said in an address to large groups of Tehrani citizens on the 29th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In the ceremony, the president repeatedly received public support as he raised some questions about his stances towards the country`s nuclear issue, Palestine and the Zionist regime of Israel.
Somewhere in his address, Ahmadinejad invited enemies to stop mischief-making and turn to reality.
`Don`t suppose the world today is similar to that of 60 years ago.
Follow Iranian nation`s advice, join the camp of truth seekers and stop mischief-making,` he said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that more than dlrs 13 billion had been diverted out of the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund (FERF) for investment in development of the country`s poor regions and provinces.
Addressing Iranians at large at a ceremony at Tehran`s Azadi Square on the 29th triumph anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, that rls six billion out of the said sum has thus far been paid out of the FERF.
Ahmadinejad said that in two and a half years since starting work, his government had made 34 provincial tours, which is something unprecedented worldwide.
The visits, he said, aimed at promotion of justice, solidarity and making sound decisions for development of the country.
In the wake of the first 30 tours, there were 6,100 approvals, more than 76 percent of which being implemented or in stage of implementation, he added.
He then said that the number of Iranian medical research centers has risen to 160 from two and of the road emergency bases to 1,420 from 650 in 2004, one year before his government took office.
The president said that now all rural families are provided with medical services and physicians and the number of people under rural insurance coverage has reached more than 20,300,000 in two years.
He added that in two and half years since his government took office, the number of medals Iranian sportspersons obtained in the global and international contests has been more than those obtained in five years before the period.
The Chief Executive said national power generation capacity too rose by 10,000 megawatts in two years, a figure equal to that in the five years preceding the time.
More on his government`s achievements, Ahmadinejad said that in two years, 35 big and small dams were fully constructed and inaugurated.
The number of research works, essays and books too increased 135 percent in three years, he added.
In two and half years, 70,000 classrooms were added to schools and the number of the technical and vocational centers rose by 50 percent.
Until 2004, seven million mobile phones were offered to the public, said the president, adding that today the figure has risen to 28 million, that is offered at one third the original price.
He said export of agricultural products doubled to more than dlrs 2.
3 billion for the first ever this year from 2004 and the exports at large reached dlrs 22 billion this year, twice more than the target, from dlrs 7.
3 billion in 2004.
For the first ever, Iran managed to export wheat, while the country imported five million tons of the crop to satisfy demands of a population range of 36 and 40 million in the years 1979, 1981 and 1985.
Development projects too rose twofold in 2005 and 2006 compared to 2003 and 2004, he said, adding that in 2007, the figure increased two-and-half fold.