Posted on 08/26/2006 4:03:12 PM PDT by freedom44
Tehran, Iran, Aug. 26 – A top Iranian official warned on Friday that Tehran may develop nuclear weapons as a “preventative measure” against threats posed by the West.
“The patience of the Iranian nation has a limit. If [the West] crosses this limit, our nation, which is very suspicious of the good will of Western countries, will force Majlis to ratify the law for Iran to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”, Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, the deputy speaker of Iran’s Majlis, or Parliament, said on Friday.
“The Iranian nation is facing illogical powers that have nuclear weapons and see no deterrent. If they exert pressure on us it is possible that our nation will ask the government to produce nuclear weapons as a preventative measure”, Bahonar, who is also secretary general of the Islamic Association of Engineers, said following a meeting by the group’s leaders.
“The West must accept Iran as a regional power. They cannot ignore this reality. … Illogical pressures over the nuclear issue must end”, he said. His remarks were reported by the government-run news agency ILNA.
Addressing the West, Bahonar said, “You must fear the day that the Iranian people pour into the streets and demonstrate, calling on the government to produce nuclear weapons to counter the threats”.
He issued a stark warning that “any aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran will be met with a hard reaction by all Muslims across the world”.
Bahonar, a staunch ultra-conservative ally of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wields considerable influence as a key power-broker in the hard-line government. Many of Ahmadinejad’s political appointees as ministers, governors, and senior administrators are Bahonar’s protégés.
The Islamic Association of Engineers is part of the ultra-conservative camp loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
WOW! I never saw this coming.
Gee!!!! what a surprise.
Let's hit em with some more resolutions and sanctions.
When will the leftist apologist for Iran stand up and please remove their heads from their Uranus.
The stupid Democrats will actually believe this.
They will say that Iran wouldn't have developed nuclear weapons if it hadn't been for the threatening talk by the cowboy Bush. The same blame America crap we've heard from them for years.
"...may..."
Heh. Never saw that coming, did we?
It's show time folks. No one else is going to do it, if we don't. They hate us anyway.
Israel will do it if they feel it necessary. Which is what I believe our weak-kneed spineless politicians are waiting for.
Also realize this is just not any source of info. This is a man intimately connected to Ahmadinejad and Mesbah Yazdi. This reveals how they will play the nuclear weapon card. Secretly they will be going full bore to get nuclear weapons. At the appropriate time, they will have the Majlis appear to 'demand' a nuclear weapon deterrent, despite what Khamanei and the government has said. Bowing to the will of the people, they will pretend to start up a nuclear weapons program that has been running for years, if not decades. Voila!
lets get it over with..we need a malfunction of a couple of missles....say we are truly sorry...and get on with our lives...these guys are a waste of skin
ping
HOLD IT!!!
STOP NOW IRAN OR ELSE......
WE WILL ASK YOU TO STOP AGAIN!
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Bomb Iran, get that monkey man, whack his evil plan..
Bomb the Mullahs and the Imams, blast them into sand
Bomb Iran, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
sung to 'Barbara Ann' The Beach Boys
If you don't have thousands and multiple ways to deliver them don't waste your time. Having a few weapons makes you a target. If you launch one missile toward Israel of any type Israel launches dozens of nukes at you even before yours hits the ground or is shot down. If the USA or it's interests are hit with a terrorist nuke then we will blame you you cannot play the MAD game with either Israel or the USA.
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Nuc' 'em NOW.
You're right and we already know what the rest of the world thinks, who cares.
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