Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during Friday prayers in Tehran September 29, 2006. -Xinhua/AFP

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday reiterated his country's refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, the Iranian Student's News Agency (ISNA) reported.

"They (Western countries) want Iran to suspend for a short period of time. So that they can propagandize it and claim that Iran has yielded to them," ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a ceremony to mark the first day of the new academic year for universities.

The Iranian president said that Iran would not give up its rights of developing peaceful nuclear programs and would defend the rights, ISNA added.

"In case Iran's nuclear facilities are raided, Iranians would build better centers, given the fact that Iran's nuclear technology is home-grown," Ahmadinejad said.

He also dismissed U.S. threats to impose sanctions on Tehran after it refused to abide by a UN Security Council resolution that asked it to suspend uranium enrichment.

"No matter we are sanctioned or not, they do not provide us with technology," Ahmadinejad said. "They do not even sell passenger planes to us, let alone hi-tech."

He underlined that all countries in the world are entitled to nuclear technology and the possession of hi-tech, specially nuclear technology by just a few countries is "fully irrational".

Ahmadinejad's latest hardline comments came two days after Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana finished their new round of talks in Berlin.

The two negotiators said all the topics had been discussed and there had been "some positive outcomes." However, neither of them gave any further details.

On Thursday, Ahmadinejad pledged before thousands of supporters in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, that his country "would not bend one inch" on its nuclear program.

"The Iranian people will not back one inch under any force and pressure," state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution in late July, urging Tehran to suspend by Aug. 31 all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, including research and development, or face prospect of sanctions.

IAEA chief Mohammed ElBaradei has presented a report to the Security Council saying "Iran has continued enriching uranium despite a UN nuclear deadline for it to suspend nuclear activities or face possible sanctions."

At an informal meeting in Brussels earlier this month, EU foreign ministers decided to maintain serious talks with Tehran in efforts to solve Iran's nuclear issue through diplomacy.