Wednesday's endorsement from a conference of the 120-nation Nonaligned Movement is key to Tehran in its standoff with the U.N. Security Council over its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the backing contradicts claims from some countries that the international community opposes his country's nuclear program.
Iran says it wants to create nuclear fuel through enrichment. But the country is under three sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions prompted by concerns it seeks to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads with the technology.
