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Iran says nuclear rights non-negotiable: report
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-16 15:23

TEHRAN: Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday the country's nuclear rights were not negotiable, the student news agency ISNA reported.

"The Iranian nation's nuclear rights are not negotiable and our nuclear cooperation will be done within the UN nuclear watchdog's framework ... Nuclear cooperation with Iran is beneficial to the West," ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

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