IRAN'S NUCLEAR STORY
Iran said Saturday it will never agree to a permanent halt on enriching uranium and warned that a more unstable Middle East would result from a bid to haul Tehran before the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

People reflected in mirror as Canadian ambassador to Tehran, Philip MacKinnon,1st right bottom, and the French Ambassador to Iran Francois Niccolo,3rd in right top, who attend in a two-day international conference on nuclear technologies and sustainable development in the Iranian capital on Saturday March, 5, 2005.
AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Hassan Rowhani, left
and Iranian Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, at a two-day international conference on nuclear technologies and sustainable development in the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday March, 5, 2005.
(AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)