Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that dialogue is a better way to solve the nuclear issue his country has with the West than confrontation, official IRNA news agency reported.

Ahmadinejad told reporters after a cabinet meeting that Iran is currently a nuclear country and it is impossible that the Islamic republic would retreat from its nuclear path,

With regards to the ongoing talks between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Ahmadinejad stressed that Iran's nuclear rights should be respected.

Experts of the IAEA arrived in Tehran Wednesday morning, hoping to resolve the differences between the UN nuclear watchdog and Iran over the latter's disputed nuclear program.