27 Quotes by Manouchehr Mottaki

There is a very wrong assumption held by some that the West can do anything it wants through the Security Council.

We would like to enjoy the right like Japan to have nuclear technology, of course for peaceful purposes.

We would like to enjoy rights like Japan in nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

We should try to cool down the situation. We do not support any violence.

We do not want anything more than our rights stated in the Nonproliferation Treaty, and we cannot accept anything beyond the regulations of the treaty and nuclear agency.

The time for using language of threats is over, it's time for negotiation. We express our readiness for negotiations based on justice and a comprehensive compromise. We want to peacefully solve the problem.

The thing these two countries have officially told us and expressed in diplomatic negotiations is their opposition to sanctions and military attacks.

Our contacts with the European Union will no longer be held with the EU-3, but in a unilateral manner with the different countries of the European Union.

They try, of course, to justify their illegal and discriminatory approach under the guise of the nonproliferation concern, the concern that we all share. The biased, exaggerated and unjustified propaganda is being disseminated around the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran.