Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday Iran is ready to discuss "mutual concerns" over its nuclear program and claimed the West had given in to the will of the Iranian nation.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a ceremony in Tehran, June 3, 2006. Ahmadinejad said on Thursday threats would not work in solving a dispute over the country's nuclear programme but Iran was ready to clear up misunderstandings with the world. [Reuters]

Ahmadinejad did not say whether Iran accepted a Western proposal for resuming negotiations that demands Tehran suspend uranium enrichment in return for a package of incentives .

"On behalf of the Iranian nation, I'm announcing that the Iranian nation will never hold negotiations about its definite rights with anybody, but we are for talks about mutual concerns to resolve misunderstandings in the international arena," Ahmadinejad told thousands of people in Qazvin, west of the capital Tehran.