Iran not interested in nuclear arms

"There's no talk about nuclear weapons in Iran. We don't want nuclear weapons," he said.
"They make a propaganda lie about a global consensus against Iran," he added. "There is no global consensus against Iran and even if there was, our nation wouldn't abandon its rights."
Iran, which says its nuclear facilities will only be used to generate electricity, upped the ante in its nuclear standoff with the West earlier this month, resuming uranium conversion -- a preliminary step in the process to make fuel for nuclear reactors or bomb-grade nuclear explosive.
The board of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog has called on Iran to halt uranium conversion. Iran says it will not and insists it will soon resume the most sensitive part of the process -- uranium enrichment.
Displaying a grasp of technical issues, Khamenei said Iran wanted to enrich uranium to a grade useable in atomic reactors but not to the higher grade needed to make atom bombs.
"We want to produce the fuel for our power plants by ourselves, and they say don't.
"They say buy the fuel from us. What does that mean? It means we should stay dependent. They want the Iranian nation to stay dependent on the powers which produce nuclear power," he said.
The European Union has called on Iran to resume the suspension of nuclear fuel activities to build trust, a suggestion Khamenei rejected.
"I tell them now, you should do something to make us trust you," he said.
"The Europeans should not talk in a demanding tone. Today is not like the 19th century ... we are not afraid of anybody. We have the power to defend our rights and we will not give up our rights," he said."