NAME: IRA PRESIDENT 20060827I TAPE: EF06/0781 IN_TIME: 10:36:30:15 DURATION: 00:03:04:14 SOURCES: IRINN/ IRIB DATELINE: Tehran, 27 Aug 2006 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Iran SHOTLIST IRINN- No access Iran 1. Wide of room 2. Wide of podium with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talking to the audience 3. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President: "You (addressing western countries) should know that no power can stop our nation from making progress. Based on this, our nation's decision, in its way of scientific and technical development, is a strong decision." 4. Cutaway of audience 5. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President: "Everyone should know that our nation's effort is aimed at serving human kind and improving peace, welfare and security of human beings. It's been said several times that sovereignty, dignity and development of our nation is dignity, sovereignty and development of all nations, particularly nations of the region." 6. Cutaway of audience 7. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President: "Basically the issue of producing nuclear weapons has no place in Iran's policy. In our nation's defence doctrine there is no such issue of making weapons. It is all research and using the knowledge in the way of welfare and greatness of the Iranian nation." 8. Tilt down of the room IRIB- No access Iran 9. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad walking towards the podium 10. Ahmadinejad at podium 11. Close up of Ahmadinejad 12. Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation, walking to the podium 13. Ahmadinejad giving medal to Aghazadeh 14. Wide of podium 15. Various of Solat Sana, Iranian nuclear scientist receiving medal from Ahmadinejad 16. Wide of podium 17. Various of Haleh Bakhtiyar, Iranian nuclear scientist receiving medal from Ahmadinejad 18. Wide of podium 19. Bakhtiyar bowing to the audience 20. Ahmadinejad and Aghazadeh clapping STORYLINE Iran's president said on Sunday that his nation's pursuit of nuclear technology was irreversible, taking a tough tone ahead of a U.N. deadline this week demanding his country suspend part of its nuclear program. The United Nations has threatened sanctions against Iran unless it halts uranium enrichment by Thursday. Iran has said it is willing to negotiate on the issue but has rejected any immediate suspension, calling the deadline illegal. "You (addressing western countries) should know that no power can stop our nation from making progress", Ahmadinejad said in a speech on national television. Ahmadinejad said it was the United States who should give up nuclear technology because it could not be trusted with it, since it developed and used nuclear weapons. "Basically the issue of producing nuclear weapons has no place in Iran's policy. In our nation's defence doctrine there is no such issue of making weapons. It is all research and using the knowledge in the way of welfare and greatness of the Iranian nation", he said. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also gave awards to 14 Iranian nuclear officials and scientists and thanked them for their work in developing the country's nuclear science. It was the first time that Iranian top nuclear scientists were shown on television.

ERBIL, IRAQ - JANUARY 07: Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and Mala Bakhtiyar, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's (PUK) politburo, meet and hold a joint press conference in Erbil on January 07, 2018. (Footage by Muhammet Jalal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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SAMARKAND, UZBEKISTAN - APRIL 13: The 4th meeting of the foreign ministers of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan has started in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Thursday, Apr. 13. The meeting, hosted by Uzbekistan's Acting Foreign Minister Bakhtiyar Saidov, was attended by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin, Pakistani State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar and Turkmenistan's Deputy Foreign Minister Vepa Hajiyev. (Footage by Bahtiyar Abdulkerimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 14, 2024: RAGIs are busy singing different SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo, at shrine of the great Sindhi poet and saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. The RAGIS called themselves FAQIR who keep singing one after another SUR over the shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai, before visiting devotees the day / night throughout.

Sehwan, Pakistan - February 18, 2025: MALANG are visiting CHAR CHIRAGH / TAKHT-E-QALANDAR -one of the memorial place associated with the saint, while attending 773rd annual URS / MELA celebration sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan city of Pakistan.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

Bhit Shah, Pakistan - December 10, 2024: Ragis at shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai are singing SUR (various stanzas of poetry) from Shah Jo Risalo at Bhit Shah, Pakistan. They keep singing over the place, one after another SUR, before devotees visiting shrine the day / night throughout.

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