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Iran's president has ruled out any discussion of its "undeniable" right to nuclear energy, but proposed talks with global powers on its peaceful use. | |
Speaking at a news conference, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also proposed a public debate with President Barack Obama of the United States, Iran's main foe. | |
A US-set deadline is approaching for Iran to stop nuclear enrichment, which Washington says could be to make arms. | |
Mr Ahmadinejad said deadlines were "incompatible" with the world's needs. | |
"We have proposed a dialogue within a fair and logical framework with all the countries... which can be involved in changing matters," Mr Ahmadinejad said. | |
The Obama administration has set a deadline of the G-20 meeting later in September for Iran to respond to its demands, which are backed by the other veto-wielding countries at the UN Security Council - China, France, Russia, the UK - and Germany. | |
The "P5-plus-one" position is that Iran must to take up an offer of talks on trade links if it suspends nuclear enrichment. If Tehran refuses it face harsher punitive measures. | |
Monday sees the opening of a week-long meeting of governors of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Engergy Agency, in Vienna. | |
Central to the IAEA discussions will be allegations, based on western intelligence reports, that Iran has secretly studied ways to make nuclear bombs. Iran says the reports are fabricated. | |
In its own latest report, the watchdog urged Iran to address the suspicions, rather than simply dismissing them. |