Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed on Wednesday that his country “will not budge an iota” from its nuclear path a day after a UN report affirmed Tehran was pursuing atomic weapons.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed on Wednesday that his country “will not budge an iota” from its nuclear path a day after a UN report affirmed Tehran was pursuing atomic weapons.

Ahmadinejad rejected allegations that Iran's civilian nuclear program was being used to build a nuclear arsenal, saying, "we don't need the atomic bomb," in a speech broadcast by state television.

He told a crowd in the western city of Shahr-e Kord: "We will not budge an iota from the path we are committed to."
"We will not build two bombs in the face of your 20,000. We will develop something that you cannot respond to, which is ethics, humanity, solidarity and justice," Ahmadinejad said.
"You should know that no enemy of the Iranian people has ever tasted victory," he said.

The president rounded on the United States, which he accused of providing the "empty claims" contained in the International Atomic Energy Agency report.

On Tuesday,  the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a new report in which it claimed it had “credible information” Iran was working on developing nuclear weapons.