Iran says there won't be any immediate response as Rice demanded

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Iran rejected Western pressure for an immediate response to an international offer of incentives to suspend uranium enrichment on Tuesday, telling the European Union the proposal lacked proper legal guarantees.

A meeting between chief Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana ended with no sign of progress, although they agreed to keep in touch after Solana reports to major power foreign ministers in Paris on Wednesday.

Even as they met in Brussels, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued to breathe defiance, saying his country would not back down from its right to produce nuclear fuel.

"The Iranian nation will not retreat one iota on its way to realising all of its rights, including complete nuclear rights and employing the capacities to produce nuclear fuel," student news agency ISNA quoted him as saying in northwest Iran.

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1. Get the picture here?

N. Korea launches 7 missiles...the US wants to talk. Hugo Chavez is defiant, launches tirades against Bush.

Iran says no to US ultimatum.....

And the world watches. It's not hard to see what has happened here.