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Iran won't halt nuclear work as world powers want

TEHRAN
Thu Sep 18, 2008 8:51am EDT

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not suspend sensitive nuclear work, the Iranian president said on Thursday, ruling out a key demand by world powers.

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"The era of (uranium enrichment) suspension has ended," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a news conference. "Iran's position on the nuclear issue has not changed."

World powers have offered a package of trade and other incentives if the Islamic Republic suspends uranium enrichment, a process the West believes Iran is seeking to master to build nuclear warheads. Tehran denies the charge.

(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Zahra Hosseinian, writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Charles Dick)
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