Iranian leaders today brushed off the threat of sanctions or military attack over their controversial nuclear drive, insisting the West was powerless to halt the Islamic republic. Posted on 04/14/2006 10:18:17 AM PDT by M. Espinola
Iranian leaders today brushed off the threat of sanctions or military attack over their controversial nuclear drive, insisting the West was powerless to halt the Islamic republic.
The tough rhetoric came after the regime dismissed appeals from UN's atomic watchdog chief Mohamed Elbaradei to freeze its uranium enrichment programme and calm suspicions it is seeking the bomb.
"Today, thank god, the Iranian nation is a powerful one and we are going to have a dialogue with the world from a position of power," Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northeast of the country.
"Everything we have is from god, and a few weaklings cannot stand against the Iranian people," he said.
Elbaradei's trip to Tehran today came in the wake of Iran's announcement that its scientists had successfully enriched uranium to make nuclear fuel, despite a UN Security Council demand for the work to be halted by April 28.
Iran says it only wants to generate atomic energy, but enrichment can be extended to make the fissile core of a nuclear warhead. Elbaradei said talks on the demand would continue, although Iran was showing no sign of any readiness to compromise.
Top regime cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a Friday prayer sermon that the United States was a "decaying power" and pointed out that Iran was "not Iraq or Afghanistan."
"The enemy should know Iran is not comparable to any country in the world. Now we are much more powerful than before," said the head of Iran's Guardian Council, a powerful political watchdog. Don't be intimidated by their threats. They don't have the stamina to do anything," Jannati said.
Why is he still breathing air?
Why is the Natanz nuke facility still standing?
Failures by this Administration, in my opinion.
I can see brushing off threats of sanctions from the U.N., because it's a paper tiger. But if our Politicians have the political will, we still could bomb the *******.
So I guess this means...if you get a good a$$whuppin', your allah isn't the real God?
I'm glad we took down Saddam. If for no other reason it finally brought an end to Gulf War I which we piddled around with for 12 years. Now we seem to have a lack of nerve regarding these psycho Iranians. I hope Bush hasn't been cowered by the leftist peace advocates.
This lunatic does not need nukes to bring him down.
OTOH, a certifed nuclear facility does. The question is when...the answer is whenever we feel like it.
Nothing that the President can do will be right...so he does nothing.... The Liberals have caused the decline and fall of the United States as a power base in the world... And so they shall reap what they sow... Iran will get a nuclear weapon.... Israel will be destroyed ..... The writing is on the wall..... The Anti-war kooks have one... our resolve as a nation was short lived after 9/11 and we may well deserve to be hit harder....
Let's just pick off his subs. Quickly and quietly before they can send a report back to Iran.
Making them disappear will be a fun exercise and a useful one as well.
Keep talkin' Mahmoud.
No powerless as in our government will not go through the bullshit of convincing america again that it would be in our best interest to act on this THREAT.... Why should they America turned on the President when he did act in the best interest of this nation and all for political gain... It is simply sickening.... Just the beginning of the end....
This Administration?
Who let the fanatics seize power in Iran in the first place?
Who stabbed our ally the Shah in the back?
Who put political correctness ahead of the lives of those hostages the Iranians took in 1979?
Let us all give thanks to Jimmy Carter.
If he was referring to the UNSC, I agree.
...and Bush will be blamed.
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