DAKAR (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday he doubted the UN Security Council would impose sanctions over his country's nuclear program.

"We are supporters of dialogue and negotiation and we believe that the problem can be solved through the legal framework. I don't believe there will be sanctions because there is no reason for sanctions," Ahmadinejad told journalists at the end of a visit here.

The United States has been pushing for the UN Security Council to move quickly to impose sanctions on Iran, after Tehran ignored a resolution to halt uranium enrichment by August 31.

"It would be preferable for U.S. officials not to make angry statements, because we have been under American sanctions for 27 years already," Ahmadinejad said through an interpreter.

Ahmadinejad spoke ahead of leaving Senegal for the Cuban capital Havana to attend a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement states.