Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has vowed that Iran would never capitulate to Western pressure over its nuclear program.

Addressing a group of elite students, he said that Iran would outwit "intoxicated and arrogant" Western opponents in the standoff.

"The Iranian nation has withstood and it will withstand intimidation. It will never buckle under any intimidation in the nuclear issue and in other matters."

He also added that Iran would bring these intoxicated and arrogant powers to their knees through wisdom and prudence.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Bush's latest verbal attack as 'hateful, arrogant and violent.'