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TheWorldTonight: Defiance from Iran on plans for nuclear scheme(Coventry Evening Telegraph Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)IRAN is under increasing international condemnation - including from allies Russia and China - after announcing it enriched uranium for the first time. But it insisted it will push ahead to dramatically expand the program that the United Nations had demanded it scrap. Russia and China have been Iran's top defenders at the UN Security Council, resisting pressure to slap sanctions on Tehran for its nuclear program. Both countries repeated their stance yesterday that negotiations were the way out of the stand-off, but their frustration with Tehran was clear. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who a day earlier announced the successful enrichment, dismissed the criticism from the US and Europe. "Today, our enemies are angry because they could not block the path of our nation toward achieving nuclear technology. We have passed a main crossroad in this path," Ahmadinejad said yesterday in a speech broadcast on state-run television. |