Tehran on Friday rejected remarks by President Nicolas Sarkozy on Iran's nuclear weapons being a threat to the region and the whole world.
"Nuclear weapons have no place in Iran's defence doctrine," foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi was quoted by Fars news agency as saying.
Sarkozy on Thursday asked his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad for support in opposing Iran's controversial nuclear programme.
While acknowledging Iran's right to have nuclear power, Sarkozy stressed that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a threat to the region and the whole world.
Iran insists that its nuclear projects were solely for civil and peaceful purposes but the West fears that the Islamic state would work on a secret programme for making nuclear weapons.
The request by the West and the United Nation's Security Council from Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment programmes has so far been rejected by Tehran which says that in line with Non-Proliferation Treaty, the country was also entitled to have enrichment process.
The German car market is facing its worse downturn, the nation's auto industry association warned Wednesday as the deepening sense of economic gloom in the country leads to a shakeout in the industry and the prospects of big job cuts.
A comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon as a couple trying to avoid their families at Christmas debuted in first place over the weekend at North American box offices, according to preliminary studio estimates issued Sunday.