World powers won't thwart Iran nuclear drive: Ahmadinejad

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/9/07 | AFP

[NormsRevenge]

NATANZ, Iran (AFP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday vowed that world powers would not be able to stop Iran's nuclear drive and that the Islamic republic would defend its atomic programme "to the end."

"The great Iranian nation, which for past centuries has been a pioneer of science, will not allow some bullying powers to put obstacles in its path of progress by influencing the international community," he said in a speech.

"We will go on to reach the summits," he added in a keynote address at Iran's ultra-sensitive uranium enrichment plant in Natanz.

"Today... this country has joined the countries that produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale," said Ahmadinejad, confirming an earlier announcement by Iran's atomic energy chief.

The president gave no figures over how many centrifuges Iran had now installed at the Natanz plant.

"They should know that our nation with awareness and faith has stood by its leadership and will defend its rights to the end," he added.

Ahmadinejad also warned that Iran would "reconsider its behaviour" if it was provoked by world powers. He did not go into further detail.

"Our nation has until this day moved on a peaceful path, observing laws created by the world powers, and it is interested in continuing along this path.

"But they should take care not to do something that makes Iran reconsider its behaviour, as the Iranian nation is capable of doing so," he said.

"We recommend to them that they had better respect nations' rights."

[Finalapproach29er]

He first needs to lose his Navy as a warning of what is to come.

Our Navy should be ready to sink them at the slightest provocation.

[reagan_fanatic]

The saddest part about all of this is—Ahmadinejad is right. No one will do anything to stop him. No one has the will to prevent him from getting a nuclear bomb

He is right. They will get the bomb (eventually) - and bombing them will not stop it, only slow it down a little. Even a regime change is not guaranteed to put a stop to the nuclear program, as Ahmanutjob and the mullahs have successfully framed the project in nationalistic terms.

Iran will go nuclear at some point, and there is damned little we can do about it. The sad thing is, we could have had a much higher chance of success had the nations of the World stood together and done something about it in the very beginning.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

The day is coming when Iran will pay the price for her actions. It may come sooner or later but come it will.
He will get his bomb but his toy will not save him or his Mullas from his enemies both within and without his land. What ever happened to the Shahs son?

[Tommyjo]

First image is one of the newly delivered Russian SA-15 (GAUNTLET) SAM systems. It’s in its travel mode. The photographer probably didn’t even know what he was photographing.