Iran says it will not halt uranium enrichment

TEHRAN, Feb 18 (Reuters) Iran will not agree to suspend uranium enrichment as demanded by the UN Security Council, which gave Tehran until February. 21 to halt the sensitive atomic work, the Foreign Ministry said today.

''Suspension is unacceptable. There is no ground to do that. This issue belongs to the past. There is no legal and logical justification for that,'' spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told a weekly news conference.

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