TEHRAN, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - The UN Security Council resolution on Iran is unacceptable, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday.
The UN Security Council voted July 31 in favor of a resolution to set August 31 as a deadline for Iran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities. If Iran fails to fulfill the UN's demands, economic and diplomatic sanctions may be imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Asefi said the resolution did not recognize Tehran's right to civil nuclear technologies.
Iran's nuclear program has been a source of major controversy since the beginning of the year, as many countries suspect the Islamic Republic of pursuing a covert weapons program under the pretext of civilian research, despite its claims to the contrary.
The Iranian diplomat said Tehran still believed negotiations to be the only way to solve the Iran nuclear problem.
