Iran President - Ahmadinejad decorating nuclear scientists; comments on nuclear program
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
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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.