TEHRAN - The Iranian nation resists and will continue to resist bullying and will not yield to pressure on the nuclear issue or any other issue, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said here on Monday.

“If a nation desires honor, strength, independence, identity, security, and wellbeing, it must have scientific capabilities,” the Leader stated in a meeting with ten of the country’s leading young scientific figures.
The scientific movement of the country’s youth and their progress are very promising for greater development, and God willing, their blessed movement will lay the foundation for the realization of the lofty goals of the Iranian nation, Ayatollah Khamenei noted.
Ayatollah Khamenei stated that science is a prerequisite for power and said certain Western powers, including the U.S., are using their scientific development to threaten other countries.
He called U.S. President George W. Bush’s recent remarks despicable, belligerent, and arrogant, adding, “Iran will defeat these drunken and arrogant powers using its adept and wise ways.”
Iran should aim to attain such a level of scientific progress as to become a reference point in matters of science, such that scientists will feel the need to learn the Persian language, the Leader stated.