Iran rejects EU's demands to quit nuclear program

IRAN yesterday rejected demands by the EU to abandon its uranium enrichment program, but reasserted its readiness to provide guarantees it will not build a nuclear weapon.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Iran already had the technology required to develop nuclear fuel and would not reverse the situation.

"If the demand is that we don't master nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, it's out of the question because we have reached that point," Asefi said.