Posted on 02/01/2006 6:46:45 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Wednesday his country would not surrender its nuclear ambitions and blasted an agreement between the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to take up the case.
"Those who possess stocks of nuclear arms meet together and take decisions and think that the Iranian people will submit to their decisions," the president said.
"I tell these countries who want to violate the rights of the Iranian people that the Iranian people will not be influenced by their propaganda," he said, vowing the Islamic republic would "continue on the road to victory".
The foreign ministers of the five permanent Security Council members agreed in London on Monday to haul Iran's case to New York after the country resumed sensitive nuclear fuel research work and deepened fears it could acquire the atom bomb.
A referral is likely to come during an emergency meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) 35-nation board of governors, which begins on Thursday.
"They believe they are dealing with a second-rate people with no culture. But we will build nuclear power stations everywhere in the country with a capacity of 20 000 megawatts," Ahmadinejad asserted.
"Our people will not bow to a few tyrannical countries who think they are the whole world," he added.
"The language of the Europeans and the West is from the Middle Ages. They live in a colonial dream. The action of the Westerners will have no influence on the decisions of the Iranian people," said the president, who was speaking during a visit to the southern city of Bushehr.
Bushehr is where, with Russian assistance, Iran is building its first nuclear power station. The Islamic regime insists it only wants to generate electricity.
Didnt Ronald Reagan do that one time? He was jokeing or something and the Russians took him seriously?
You nailed it. Despite appearances all is well.
I think he watched the UN's behavior during and after the Iraq invasion and correctly concluded that they would wimp out if his country decided to challenge them. The Europeans are now experiencing the fruit of their spineless response to Iraq.
"Action must follow and soon...."
Well that counts out the UN.
Some how, the term "Victory" is not one I associate with
peaceful nuclear energy. It implies an adversarial relationship, which comes as no surprise to me.
Ever read Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz"?
Are you suggesting we invest in Irish monasteries as a hedge against a post-nuclear dark age? :-)
I think I'll order the book.
Saddam played the security counsel like a drum, this guy is basically spitting in their faces. This should get pretty interesting, seeing how they react. Wonder how many resolutions will be passed before Iran goes to it's knees? (sarc)
Today's UN makes the League of Nations look tough and decisive by comparison.
yet another 'knife to a gunfight' moment for the iranian president...
a word to the iranian president that i would like to share :: 'never believe you own BS'
Might be the wrong place to complain about this, but here I am, so is anybody watching the Prayer Breakfast? The phony baloney plastic banana good time rock and roller Dems from Red States have taken over the Prayer Breakfast. Pryor and Salazar. Throw in Joe Lieberman and BONO, YES I SAID B-O-N-O, and I quit watching before I got sick. I had been watching and waiting for the President to speak.
15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves.
16 By their fruits you will know them."
Cool on the translations!
Which translations and what did you get to contribute?
Yeah, am familiar with it.
Just from a decorum and "tone" standpoint, I knew things weren't gonna go well when the tone was set by the duo of Norm Coleman and Mark Pryor (Pryor voted against Alito) who introduced themselves together and then rattled on about a Republican from a Red state joining with a Democrat from a Blue state, and maybe that was why they get along so well, blah, blah, blah.
Just wondering: how did the Prayer Breakfast get to be all about THEM?
Very dangerous man...
Precisely. A machavellian dictator would have kept his mouth shut, allowed the western world to assist in building nuclear reactors for the iranian government over the next 10-15 years, and THEN turn it over to military use. This guy is urinating in everyone's post toasties right out of the chute. Clearly strong evidence of megalomania with a touch of delusions of "mahdisim". He's gotta go down.
Can you please add a picture of Ron Silver to the collage?
That assertion by Ahmadinejad opens the door to another weapon that can be put into play against the Iranian government: internal subversion by an environmental movement. Such internal subversion has certainly worked in the United States and other places where environmental insurgencies have sprung up. Immediate steps should be taken to empower such a movement in Iran. Imagine the propaganda that the greenies could crank out - fear mongering about poisoning the air, water, and food, as well as radioactive releases resulting in dead and deformed children, the whole spiel.
Imagine that fight - the mullahs against the greenies. How entertaining!
So...the mighty UN is gonna roll in with its troops and take care of the situation?
Riiiiiiiight.....
yes, the "fruits" are rotten on both sides of the aisle...
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