Posted on 02/11/2010 5:34:56 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Violence feared as security forces threaten to crush protests Internet connections attacked in Tehran as regime tries to foil opposition Iran is now a 'nuclear state', President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced this morning. He spoke as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tehran to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. There are fears of violence as opposition and pro-government supporters are expected to meet at rallies in a show of popular strength unmatched since the revolution itself. Today Ahmadinejad told scores of cheering Iranians that the Islamic Republic is capable of producing weapons-grade uranium. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses tens of thousands of Iranians gathered in Azadi (Freedom) Square in southwestern Tehran today, marking the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution Pro-regime supporters shout slogans (left) while a caricature of US President Barack Obama joins the sea of Iranian flags
He said it had produced its first batch of 20 per cent enriched uranium - and had the capability to enrich to far higher levels at its Natanz plant. Enriching uranium produces fuel for a nuclear power plants but can also be used to create material for atomic weapons. The international community has warned Iran against further enrichment activities, threatening new UN sanctions.
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The NYT will "hope" no one remembers this 2007 article.
Lol. I like that term. I hope it catches on.
He says its for peaceful purposes only why should we not belive him.
Bullcrap. If they were really a “nuclear state”, they would demonstrate it by a very public nuclear explosion.
Yeah its like potatoe you can pronounce it or not yur choice
Rush ALWAYS calls them the Press Corpse.
I called it right
of that means we can use them on this ? we are equals now.. smile..
go go go ..
Who can take this guy seriously?
I mean really, a world leader speaking with NO TELEPROPTER?
Check his hands!
“The “No Nukes” Hollywood Reds are surprisingly silent.”
As is the media. I have had FOX on all day and have seen coverage about Iran and the protests....but until I saw this thread, I heard NOTHING about Ahmadinejad’s nuclear state ‘announcement’!
Remember, it was the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE)late in Bush’s last term, which said Iran was only enriching uranium for peaceful purposes, and it tied Bush’s hands, so he could do nothing militarily or even in terms of sanctions to halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The media jumped on the NIE, and declared peace in our time, and 2 years later, look what we have? I want to know WHO AUTHORED THAT NIE?, and I want Congress to have a full investigation just like they did when we couldn’t find WMD in Iraq. This should be just as big a deal as not finding WMD. Where is the outcry? It needs to be heard. We are the boss of these politicians and it is time that we be a heck of a tough boss. Instead we treat them like an politically correct HR department; we don’t have to that. We can give the hell with our dissent; they deserve every bit of it.
Well, I take that back...just heard it on FOX.
aggghhh...you know, every time I see his photo, I’m disgusted that we’ve never acknowledged him as responsible for taking America hostages. He should have been arrested the minute he stepped foot into this country. I haven’t figured out what our government has to gain from ignoring it.
He’s begging for an attack as a means of fomenting nationalist support in order to counter the uprising.
ok, here goes...
bambamhussein is reeeeaaaalllly hurtin politically, as is his brother acccckkkkmindeedanutjob, so is the real possibilty to use this as a manufactured crisis???
to have the US military whack the Iranian protesters in an attempt to neutralize the nukes, and to give bambam a poll bounce for being serious about security...
if i were a protester in Iran, Id steer clear of any rallies around Natanz...
The Doomsday clock folks haven’t seem to notice either.
I love how the diaperheads take to the streets waving oversized pictures of the Ayatolla (old white-bearded) and nothing more.
We should take to the streets in the U.S. and wave posters of Colonel Sanders.
The antidote for the poison dwarf’s machinations..
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