Tehran, Feb 8, SPA -- Iran's top nuclear negotiator saidTuesday that Tehran wanted to resolve decades ofdifferences with the United States and also warned that aU.S. military strike would not be able to destroy Iran'snuclear facilities. "We are not seeking tension with the United States,"Hasan Rowhani told state-run Iranian television. "We areseeking to resolve our problems with America but it's theAmericans who don't want problems to be resolved." "There is no problem in today's world that can't beresolved," Rowhani insisted. Rowhani, who is the secretary of the powerful SupremeNational Security Council, said a U.S. military strikeagainst Iran's nuclear facilities would fail. "Iran's nuclear technology is in the hands of itsscientists and workshops throughout the country. All ofthem have the ability to produce centrifuges. Therefore,America will not be able to destroy our nuclear facilitiesand mines through a military strike," he warned in thetelevision interview. The broadcast reported that Iran was to begin a new roundof nuclear talks with the Europeans in Geneva on Tuesday,which some Iranian diplomats called "perhaps the lastround of talks." Rowhani said Iran will never scrap its nuclear program andwon't give up its rights under the Nuclear NonproliferationTreaty, which allows Iran access to peaceful nucleartechnology. "Talks can't continue for a long time. The Europeans havebeen told that the period of negotiations has to be withinmonths and not years," he said in the televisioninterview. "And the condition to continue the talks is progress.Therefore, if by the end of the (Iranian calendar) year(March 20), there is no progress in the talks, we will notbe obliged to continue the talks," Rowhani said. He also insisted that Iran now possesses the technology tocontrol the whole nuclear fuel cycle _ from extractinguranium ore to enriching it. "We have the ability to extract uranium, process it intoyellowcake and enrich it and produce fuel. We can claimthat we control the nuclear fuel cycle," he said.--SPA1413 Local Time 1113 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/237825