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ISLAMABAD—The 130th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah will be celebrated throughout the country with national fervour and enthusiasm today. A number of political, social, cultural and educational organizations have chalked out programmes to mark the day in a befitting >> >>
 

Iran vows to pace up enrichment work
UN would regret voting sanctions: Nejad
Foreign Desk Report

TEHRAN (Iran)—Iran vowed Sunday to push forward efforts to enrich uranium and to change its relations with the international nuclear watchdog after the U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions designed to stop the country’s disputed nuclear program. Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Security Council would regret voting in favor of the sanctions, saying he was sorry the West lost its chance to make amends with Iran. “I am sorry for you who lost the opportunity for friendship with the nation of Iran. You yourself know that you cannot damage the nation of Iran an iota,” the state-run news agency, IRNA, quoted Ahmadinejad as saying >> >>


 

Tehran refuses to bow on N-plans

TEHRAN— Iran vowed on Sunday to start work immediately on drastically expanding its capacity to enrich uranium, defying the first ever UN sanctions against the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.Top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said work would start as early as late Sunday night on installing 3,000 uranium enriching centrifuges at a key nuclear plant, hours after the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution against Iran.“Our immediate response to the UN Security Council is that, as of today, we will start the activities at the site of the 3,000 centrifuge machines in Natanz and we will go ahead with full speed,” Larijani said >> >>

 

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