He hailed the country's progress and advancement in different fields during the past years, and said the Iranian nation will continue the path "powerfully and vigilantly".
"The Iranian nation will powerfully and vigilantly continue its path with dignity and pride," Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
He downplayed the attempts and plots made by enemies to prevent the Iranian nation's progress, and said, "Some (states) have stood against the Iranian nation not just in the last 33 years (after the Islamic Revolution in Iran) but all throughout the last 60 years and exert pressures on the Iranian nation at any stage of time under various excuses to prevent the Iranian nation's progress."
Iran is now under four rounds of UN Security Council sanctions and the western embargos for turning down West's calls to give up its right of uranium enrichment.
Tehran has dismissed the West's demand as politically tainted and illogical, stressing that sanctions and pressures merely consolidate Iranians' national resolve to continue the path.
Yet, Political observers believe that the United States has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.
