TEHRAN, May. 19 (MNA) – Tehran is not seeking security guarantees from world powers negotiation with Iran over its nuclear activities, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Monday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently suggested that the five veto wielding members of the UN Security Council and Germany could offer Tehran security guarantees in return for a freeze in Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
“I think the ‘Six’ could make the following step: directly put concrete offers on the negotiating table, give Iran security guarantees, and ensure a more distinguished place in negotiations on the situation in the Middle East,” Reuters quoted Lavrov as saying.
“Iran has never raised the issue of security guarantees,” Hosseini told reporters during his weekly press briefing.
Russia, the United States, China, Britain, France, and Germany agreed on May 2 to make a new offer of incentives to Tehran as part of efforts to end the West’s long-running nuclear standoff with the Islamic Republic.
Iran has repeatedly rejected Western calls for suspending uranium enrichment as a prerequisite for talks with the world powers.
Hosseini vowed that Iran will consider the 5+1 group’s package of incentives but will accept no precondition to sit at the negotiating table.
“We will study their package of proposals and will discuss its positive …and negative points,” he stated.
The spokesman described the latest round of talks between Iranian and UN nuclear watchdog officials as “successful”. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei will soon report on the outcome of negotiations, he added.
Experts from the two sides last week wrapped up three days of talks which Hosseini said were in line with Iran’s cooperation with the IAEA.
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The Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed as “old and repetitious” U.S. President George W. Bush’s recent accusations that Iran’s nuclear program poses a threat to global security.
Addressing the Zionist regime parliament on Thursday, Bush said Washington stood by Israel in “firmly opposing” Iran’s “nuclear weapons ambitions”.
Letting Iran acquire atomic arms “would be an unforgivable betrayal of future generations”, said the U.S. president in a statement to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary.
Hosseini hit back, saying, “It is the performance of the medieval Bush regime which has unsettled the region’s stability and confronted us with war whose outcomes have been nothing but destruction and murder of innocent people.”
“The world public opinion can no doubt comment on Bush’s claims better than anybody,” he added.
“Bush and Israeli officials celebrated 60 years of terror and destruction. Bush in this trip made some remarks in support of Israel which surprised even extremist Zionists.”
Hosseini criticized the U.S. president for speaking against “the most noble and popular resistance groups” calling the Bush administration “the most hateful and isolated government in the history of the United States.”
In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week, the U.S. president reaffirmed his support for Lebanon’s government against Hezbollah.
“Hezbollah, the so-called protector of the Lebanese against Israel has now turned on its own people,"" AFP quoted Bush as claiming.
The president also reiterated his support for Israel in its conflict with the resistance movement Hamas that seized power in the Gaza Strip in June.
Bush claimed that Hamas was pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, saying, “We’ll stand strongly with Israel as well as stand strongly with the Palestinians who don’t share their vision.”
Al Qaeda, Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement and Hamas “will be defeated, as Muslims across the region recognize the emptiness of the terrorists’ vision”, he predicted
Hosseini said, “Bush’s performance has lowered the status of U.S. citizens. The U.S. government should try to distance itself from a medieval culture and to have a better perception.”
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The spokesman said the regional countries’ efforts to defuse Lebanon’s political crisis have been in the right direction and could yield “constructive and logical” results provided that the outsiders stop interfering in Lebanon’s domestic affairs.
The Arab League intervened last week to end Lebanon's crisis and gathered the Lebanese ruling coalition and the opposition in Doha on Saturday to hold talks on ways to end an 18-month-old crisis.
The Islamic Republic has always asserted that it will spare no efforts to help Lebanese political parties reach a consensus on electing a president, Hosseini stated.
Lebanon’s political deadlock has left it without a head of state since Emile Lahoud’s term expired on November 23.
Parliamentary sessions to vote for a new president were postponed 18 times as the ruling coalition and the opposition failed to settle their differences.
The rivals have agreed that army chief General Michel Suleiman should fill the presidency, but continue to argue over the new cabinet’s make-up