Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/iran-remains-defiant-amid-tensions-over-uranium-enrichment Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan announced Monday that he would visit Iran, one day after Iran repeated its intention to continue uranium enrichment despite a U.N. deadline to halt nuclear program activities. NewsHour Correspondent Margaret Warner reports from Tehran. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Now, Margaret Warner in Iran, as it confronts the United States and others over its nuclear program. Margaret Warner flew to Iran over the weekend for a 10-day reporting trip, and I talked with her from Tehran earlier today.And hello, Margaret. MARGARET WARNER: Hi, Jim. JIM LEHRER: This promises to be a big news week in Iran. Take us through what's expected. MARGARET WARNER: Well, this week — as we know, the deadline comes August 31st. And there's no doubt from the atmospherics here that Iran is not planning to change its position, which is they aren't going to give in on this nuclear enrichment.So the tone, in other words, of just the day-and-a-half I've been here has been one of defiance. Ahmadinejad took reporters Saturday, before we arrived, to a new nuclear facility outside of Tehran, a new heavy-water plant for reactors, which the IAEA is very worried about. He said there that this should pose no threat to the world, not even to the Zionist state, as he put it, but he said Iran will defend its right to nuclear technology by force.And that's really been the pattern. Last night, he honored 15 noted scientists in a heavily televised event whose work is related to the nuclear field. And every day, with these war games going on, there are new photographs and video purporting to show another successful missile or weapons launch.So I would say, you know, flexing muscle, defiance, and I don't think we're going to see any change from the Tehran regime before the 31st.