, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Jan. 2 Iran would not retreat from its right to nuclear technology and that a U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was “invalid.”
“The Iranian nation is wise and will stick to its nuclear work and is ready to defend it completely,” Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech to a rally in the southern city of Ahvaz.
“The U.N. resolution against Iran
