Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel cannot do a "damn thing" to stop his country's nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad made the statement Wednesday in a televised speech, Reuters reported.
He called the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution approved last week censuring the country's nuclear activity "illegal" and said it came "under pressure of a few superficially powerful countries."
The IAEA resolution called on Iran to halt construction of a recently disclosed underground nuclear enrichment facility. In response, Iran's parliament on Sunday approved the construction of 10 new uranium enrichment sites
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Dear God, please help us get rid of i.r. and zionists,
by پیام on Thu Dec 03, 2009 05:00 AM PSTThen maybe people like our local jester Gholi jan, will smarten up and gives up ruining our days with bogus news from his BFF's, zionists and i.r..
Can we live to see that day?
Good points ...
by No Fear on Wed Dec 02, 2009 09:44 PM PSTWhile announcing 10 more enrichment plants seemed a rush and reactionary response from Iran, there might be some other angles.
First of all, Why build so many when we don't even have the reactors to use them for? What if Iran is hinting military applications?
Reduced cooperation with IAEA and building 10 more enrichment plants will send shivers up any 5+1 leader's spines. Is Iran Bluffing or is it up to something?
Ahmadinejad just announced today that Iran is able to enrich up to %20 by itself and it no longer needs west %20 if they don't supply it. This clearly indicates enrichment percentages higher than any electrical nuclear plant requirements. Whats up with that?
This must be just bluffing. It won't make sense any other way.
What will Iran do?
by Shah Ghollam on Wed Dec 02, 2009 09:01 PM PSTI agree building 10 enrichment plants are not in the workd sor some good logic. Iran can enrich uranium using a much faster centrifyge IR-4 (hope this is the latest version as i recollect). Iran will possibly build two to three more enrichment sites with much better technology. This will give Iran a very powerful enrichment capability.
Iran will further drop all the 'voluntary" measures she has adopted to show its good will. That will put IAEA in a legal limbo since Iran would technically still be following the guidelines strictly but not to the limit that security council demended.
In the end, time is on Iran's side. There will be no attacks for many reasons that have already beed discussed here. There will be sanctions but ultimately the West will have no choice but to cut a deal with Iran at the loss of Israel.
In the meantime, look forward to a hell of a lot of anti IRI and divide and rule strategy to split Iran from within. That is the only hope for the West and Israel to bring Iran down all together. Certainly Iranian.com will be in the middle of such efforts to pit iranians against Iranians. Stay tuned!
Modest proposals
by Dan Huck on Wed Dec 02, 2009 08:39 PM PSTI think Mr. Ahmadinejad is right when he says censuring Iran's nuclear activity is "illegal", and that Iran came "under pressure of "a few superficially powerful countries", but I think he is way off the mark to not be confident enough to say " I think it's quite laughable to be in this mickey mouse universe where countries who try to do the right thing (Are you REALLY trying to do the right thing, Mr. A.?) are censured within this context of the IAEA and the NNPT, and those like India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea are not dealt with because they are not members. Nevertheless, Israel, Pakistan, and India are dealt with as first class world citizens by these same censuring nations. I can understand the smaller countries 'who go along, to get along', but the hypocrisy of the first tier nations is beyond belief, and, because it's so up-front and hypocritical, really laughable. Further, the main focus of the IAEA is non-proliferation and disarmament - these 'superficially powerful' countries are the ones whose feet we should be holding to the fire. So far, the US are the only nuclear killers, after all. They, unconscionably, are taking advantage of this treaty to maintain the status quo, whereby they hold on to the exclusivity of having nuclear weapons, but in addition, have used the treaty as a club to beat up on nations like Iran who have tried to live within the terms of it.
"It would be easy to say we have decided to withdraw from the treaty, but, frankly, no, we will hang in, and figure out a way to convince a greater and greater percentage of the non-aligned countries, and some of those who are aligned but not so dependent they can't think independently, of the peaceful nature of our nuclear program."
Also, Mr. A. needs to pay attention to his PR people and get away from trying to 'demonize' others, because in the context of the different cultures, it doesn't work, and he ends up looking like the biggest demon himself.
Thirdly, he needs to find a way to deal with difficult people more 'reasonably'. Does Iran have the money to have as large a percentage of it's population in jail as the US does, for example?
And, by our example, he should know, torture and killing people in jail does not go over well in the world community, if they are also doing that sort of thing.