Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday those who voted for a UN nuclear resolution against the country would soon regret it, the official IRNA news agency reported.
“This resolution will not harm Iran and those who backed it will soon regret their superficial act,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. “Iranians are neither worried nor uncomfortable with the resolution ... we will celebrate our atomic achievements in February.”
On his part, Iran's top nuclear negotiator said the country will push forward immediately with efforts to enrich uranium, a newspaper reported Sunday. "From Sunday morning, we will begin activities at Natanz — site of 3,000-centrifuge machines - and we will drive it with full speed. It will be our immediate response to the resolution," Ali Larijani told the Kayhan newspaper.
Meanwhile, Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement condemned the adoption of the resolution. The statement said Iran considers the passing of the resolution an extrajudicial action by the Security council and against the Charter of the United Nations.
The statement said the resolution shows that certain members of the Security Council, especially the United States of America and England, are using the Security Council as a toolbox and while they refuse to comply with NPT which requires them not to transfer military nuclear technology and equipment to other countries and disarm themselves, they try to develop their nuclear arsenal.
The statement added such political and illegal actions cannot limit the inalienable and absolute rights of countries or hinder the implementation of those rights but only make the decisions of the security Council untrustworthy.
The statement said," Now that the Zionist regime does not accept to join the NPT and put its activities under the supervision of UN nuclear watchdog and the Security Council does not do anything towards the official announcement of the prime minister of the Zionist regime to possess nuclear weapons, the double standard of the Security Council on Iran's nuclear program and Israel's nuclear arsenal is absolutely unacceptable."
