Tehran - Iran will not tolerate threats from world powers when they discuss Tehran's package of nuclear proposals on October 1, a top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told AFP in an interview.
Ali Akbar Javanfekr, media advisor to Ahmadinejad, also said that accepting the Islamic republic as a nuclear power was the "first step" towards normalising relations between Tehran, Washington and the West.
"Iran is a nuclear power. We won't accept any threats during the negotiations or even after. We want negotiations based on logic and international laws," Javanfekr said in an wide-ranging interview at his Tehran office late on Tuesday.
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"They have to accept a nuclear Iran and have to negotiate with a nuclear Iran."
Iran and representatives of six world powers - the United States, Britain, Russia, France, China and Germany - are to meet on October 1, probably in Turkey, to discuss Tehran's proposals aimed at allaying concerns over its nuclear programme.
The United States, Israel, and other world powers suspect Tehran is making an atomic bomb under the guise of a civilian nuclear programme.
The Islamic republic denies the charge.
The six powers - known as the P5+1 - had given Tehran a late September deadline for holding talks and had warned that a failure to do so would lead to further sanctions.
Iran is already under three sets of UN sanctions slapped for its refusal to abandon the sensitive uranium enrichment programme, the process which produces nuclear fuel or, in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.
Javanfekr said Iran's nuclear programme was in accordance with international laws.
"What we want is that they (world powers) respect our nuclear rights and also other rights," he said.
"This can be the first step towards normalising relations with US and the West."
Javanfekr also reiterated what other top Iranian officials, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been saying - Tehran will not negotiate over its nuclear programme during the October talks.
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