Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed that his country will not backtrack on the nuclear path even for one single step, saying that the Iranian nation has adopted a historical decision for making progress and reaching the peaks of perfection.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed his people’s insistence on the right to access civilian nuclear technology, saying that Iran will eventually gain its rights.

Tehran said it could negotiate a solution to its dispute with Russia about building Iran first nuclear power plant, and Moscow promised to keep the project alive.