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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday vowed that Iran would not yield in the crisis over its nuclear drive but the White House warned again that Tehran risks more sanctions if it fails to freeze sensitive nuclear work. "The Iranian people are steadfast and will not step back an inch against the oppressive powers," Ahmadinejad told a rally in the southwestern province of Kohgelouyeh-Boyerahmad. His defiant comments come after world powers warned Iran has only a fortnight to respond to their latest offer seeking to end a five-year crisis that has raised fears of regional conflict and sent oil prices spiralling.
"We hope the Iranians will provide a positive answer," national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
World powers have offered to start pre-negotiations during which Tehran would add no more uranium-enriching centrifuges and in return face no further sanctions - the so-called "freeze-for-freeze" approach.
Iran is already under three sets of UN Security Council sanctions over its refusal to halt sensitive uranium enrichment work, which the West fears could be aimed at making nuclear weapons.
On a visit to Israel, US presidential hopeful Barack Obama said yesterday that a nuclear Iran would "pose a grave threat and the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"I will take no options off the table in dealing with this potential Iranian threat," Obama said, while renewing his openness to meeting with representatives of the Islamic republic.
The New York Times on Tuesday released what it said was a two-page informal document that outlined Tehran's approach to talks in Geneva and was distributed by Iranian negotiators.
The paper called for seven more rounds of talks, stressed the need for an end to sanctions, and made no mention of an incentives package.
Hopes of a breakthrough rose in recent weeks after Ali Akbar Velayati, the top foreign policy advisor to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said it would be in Iran's interests to accept the package.
Ahmadinejad, who has already dismissed Velayati's comments as personal, reaffirmed that he was in charge of Iran's nuclear case.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press conference on July 8. (AFP)
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