Greg Corombus:  This is Dateline Washington on the Radio America Network; I’m Greg Corombus. Thanks for being with us. We will not stop our nuclear efforts no matter what diplomatic efforts are made. That is the message from the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and with me now to offer his analysis to that statement from the real leader in Iran is Alireza Jafarzadeh, former spokesman for the Iranian parliament in exile. He’s also the one who first warned the world about Iran’s recent nuclear ambitions. He is the author of “Iran Threat.” Ali thanks very much for being with us.

Alireza Jafarzadeh: Thank you very much, Greg.

Greg Corombus: Observations of the situation of the nuclear ambitions in Iran have said for a long time and you’ve certainly said this as well that Iran is not interested in any sort of diplomacy. They want to move forward with this program, but all the incentives in the world probably won’t steer them off of this course. Is this anything new from the leader in Iran or just the first time we’ve heard it in this much clarity?

Alireza Jafarzadeh: Well, this is certainly nothing new. Iran has said repeatedly that it is not going to back down when it comes to its nuclear weapons program. What is interesting is that this coming only two days after a renewed package of incentives offered to the Iranian Regime by the five plus one, which is the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany. This is basically a package of incentives and all they are asking Tehran to do is temporarily freeze the Uranium Enrichment only during the period of negotiations and even that is rejected by the supreme leader, Khamenei. So I think this should prove the most recent fact about Iran’s intentions to pursue its nuclear weapons program and the more packages of incentives are offered to Iran, the bolder Tehran gets.

  WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States will be under pressure to stop banning an Iranian opposition movement as "terrorist" following a court ruling Wednesday in Britain, a former opposition spokesman said. The Court of Appeal ruled there were "no valid grounds" to contend that a British panel made legal errors when it ordered the People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI) to be removed from a terrorist blacklist.

Encouraged by the ruling was Alireza Jafarzadeh, who was spokesman for the National Resistance Council of Iran (NRCI), the PMOI's political wing, until the State Department banned both as a "foreign terrorist organization" in 2003. Jafarzadeh said the State Department will have to weigh the ruling in London when it conducts its scheduled five-year review of the terrorist designation for the Iranian opposition movement in October 2008.

"It's clear pressure because here's a credible court that looked at things and said this group -- we're talking about the same group, the same activities, everything -- this group is not engaged in terrorism," he told AFP. The State Department will have to weigh what he said was a 22-page ruling by the Cour of Appeal as well as a 144-page ruling by a previous court which acted in favor of the Iranian group, he said.