Iran: Nuclear program to go ahead

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In Tehran, the Iranian foreign minister says that Iran will never abandon its "legal and obvious" right to nuclear technology.

Manouchehr Mottaki made the remarks as Iran started talks Monday with the five permanent UN Security Council's nations plus Germany on Tehran's nuclear program in Vienna.

The meeting hosted by the IAEA offered the first chance to build on proposals raised at talks in Geneva at the beginning of the month. Iran agreed in Geneva in principle to send low-enriched uranium abroad for processing into fuel for an Iranian reactor to produce medical isotopes.

The West hopes this will minimize the risk of Iran refining material of high purity which would be suitable for bombs.