Posted on 08/29/2007 5:19:04 AM PDT by Schnucki
TEHRAN, Iran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated Tuesday that Tehran has achieved full proficiency in the nuclear fuel cycle and warned the West that dialogue and friendship — not threats — were the right way to deal with Iran.
"Today, Iran is a nuclear Iran," Ahmadinejad told a press conference in Tehran. "That means, it fully possesses the whole nuclear fuel cycle."
Ahmadinejad, however, said his country was committed to a "peaceful path" in pursuing its controversial nuclear program.
Ahmadinejad's comments followed an announcement Monday by the International Atomic Energy Agency which said that Tehran was offering some cooperation in the agency's probe of an alleged secret uranium processing project linked by U.S. intelligence to a nuclear arms program.
The IAEA has said that Tehran also outlined its timetable for providing other sensitive information sought by the Vienna, Austria-based U.N. watchdog in its investigation of over two decades of nuclear activity by the Islamic republic, most of it clandestine until revealed more than four years ago.
The U.S. criticized the deal with the IAEA, saying the agreement won't save Iran from a third set of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to halt uranium enrichment.
Some in the IAEA have suggested Washington may be trying to derail important progress in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, in a drive to impose new U.N. penalties.
At the presser in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said the U.S. president was a "wicked, selfish and arrogant" leader who has abused the U.N. Security Council in a push to stop Iran's nuclear program.
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So, let's help make him glow.
Ya, I can see it going “nuclear” in the near future if he keeps yapping.
Exactly. What are we waiting for? Let’s bomb Iran into the stone age.
No wait, Iran is still in the stone age.
Yeah, I'll buy that. After all, a country that is awash in oil and could meet its fuel needs for the next 300 years on its own oil really does need nuclear technology to generate power. Sure...makes sense to me.
Wishful thinking, but I fear we won’t strike first.
Does he not realize he does not have Chirac around to provide cover for him?
yeah ..in a green sort of way.
Seriously, someone better start taking this ass clown at his word. He's getting very, very close.
I thought Bush's mention of nuclear holocaust in his speech was an interesting tell.
Iran is always only 30 minutes away from being nuclear. Less if an SSBN is in the area.
“Ahmadinejad said the U.S. president was a “wicked, selfish and arrogant” leader”
Hey, he’s playing to the Democrats! Go figure.
I have been advocating for military action against Iran since the Spring of 2006, if not earlier.
I've been advocating for military action against Iran since 1979....
“Does he not realize he does not have Chirac around to provide cover for him?”
Perhaps he’s counting on Hillary or Obama to watch his back after the ‘08 election.
Is Nagin his new political advisor or something?
Darn.
Though I guess New Orleans is on everyone's minds because Katrina-New Orleans just keeps coming back, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...like malaria or genital warts.
Yep, but with KFC “extra crispy” as your main meal ;-)
“Does he not realize he does not have Chirac around to provide cover for him?”
He has replaced the frenchman with Putin.
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