TEHRAN - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Sunday that Tehran will insist on its rightful and logical nuclear policy despite the approval of new sanctions resolution against Iran.

“What heartens us is our strong logic… and hence will continue to (insist on) our rational and just position,” Mottaki said in a joint press conference with his Senegalese counterpart Madike Niang.
Pointing to the letters sent by U.S. President Barak Obama to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan encouraging them to enter dialogue with Iran, Mottaki said, “Obama’s got a negative point. Every day they add a new leaf to the file of their mistakes.”
The minister also said the era of sanctions is over, adding sanctions are no longer “effective”.
Senegal’s Foreign Minister, Madike Niang, also said pressure on Iran “are ineffective.”
Less than a month after the release of the Tehran declaration, signed by the foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey, and Brazil in Tehran on May 17, the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions against Iran.
According to the declaration Iran would ship 1200 kilograms of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey to be exchanged for 120 kilograms of 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel rods to power the Tehran research reactor, which produces radioisotopes for cancer treatment.