Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is the highest directly elected official in the country, has reaffirmed his country's position in the nuclear dispute. He told the Islamic Republic News Agency that one or two states cannot derail Iran from achieving its nuclear power goals.

"The course and framework of solving the problems with the IAEA have been drawn up properly and the affairs are proceeding in the right direction. Efforts by enemies of the Iranian nation and our opponents would be futile and I think it would be unlikely that they could do anything (against us). [...] We are not concerned about their measures," Ahmadinejad said at a conference, according to the official press agency IRNA. He also said that sending the case to the U.N. Security Council was “illegal.”

The Vienna, Austria-based International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday said Iran was cooperating with the U.N. agency’s investigation of its uranium enrichment program. Its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei is expected to deliver a confidential report on Iran today.

Ahmadinejad also made clear that Iran is ready for dialogue with any country "except the Zionist Regime of Israel" as long as a principle of equality is applied, and pointed out that his country had talks with the U.S. in Iraq about security.

Iran maintains its nuclear program is entirely aimed at peaceful purposes. This position is also reinforced by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s position, the country's "Supreme Leader", which issued a religious decree (fatwa) saying the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons was forbidden under Islam. Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also rejected Ahmadinejad's verbal attacks on Israel in 2005.

"Today, Iran is a nuclear Iran," Ahmadinejad told reporters, according to transcripts provided by IRNA and FARS. "It means Iran has fully possessed the whole nuclear fuel cycle." Ahmadinejad is a civil engineer and former mayor of Tehran. He tried to introduce some reforms as far as women's rights are concerned, but was vetoed by the conservative Ayatollah, Iran's Supreme Leader.