Iran approaching nuclear ‘peak’, says Ahmadinejad

Iran is approaching a “peak” in its nuclear programme and will not back down in the face of Western demands to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.

“If you (Western powers) imagine that the Iranian nation will back down you are making a mistake,” he said in a televised speech in the southwestern town of Bushehr. “On the nuclear path we are moving towards the peak.”