All voluntary measures taken over the past two-and-a-half or three years have been halted and we have no further commitment to the additional protocol and other voluntary commitments.

Iran stresses restoration of its right to access nuclear technology and prefers to make use of internationally recognized mechanisms and benefit from its membership of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

I think 50 percent of the case is quite clear: that is no evidence, no report, no document, no inspections show that any diversion is there. We're glad for that.

Iran also, like Japan, enjoys its right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. We are against nuclear weapons.

I predict that the irrational American view will not prevail in the Security Council.

If nuclear technology is useful for the United States, isn't it useful for other countries? We do not accept global nuclear and scientific 'apartheid'.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is insisting to provide Asia with the oil it needs as a reliable and effective source of energy and will not use oil as a foreign-policy instrument.

Once again the Security Council is on the threshold of a big test.

They could not find evidence which shows that Iran has diverted from its peaceful purposes of nuclear activities in Iran.

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.