Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he wishes to personally appear before the United Nations Security Council in New York in order to defend his country's nuclear rights, reports said Sunday, REPORTED DPA. Iranian news agency ISNA quoted government spokesman Gholam- Hossein Elham as saying that Ahmadinejad intends to attend a Security Council meeting to be held in order to discuss the international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme. No details were given on when such a meeting could take place. Iran is facing the possibility of further sanctions due to its continued refusal to halt uranium enrichment as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1737. International governments chief among them the United States accuse Tehran of nuclear weapons ambitions, however Iran insists on its right to peaceful nuclear technology under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
