Posted on 02/16/2010 12:26:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TEHRAN (AFP) – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to slap new sanctions on Iran, while stressing that Tehran was still ready for a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal.
His latest salvo came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton toured the Gulf to seek backing for possible sanctions against Iran for defiantly pursuing its nuclear programme.
"If anybody seeks to create problems for Iran, our response will not be like before," Ahmadinejad told a packed news conference in Tehran.
"Something in response will be done which will make them (the world powers) regret" their move, he said.
Ahmadinejad said negotiations over a UN-drafted nuclear fuel exchange were "not closed yet," and expressed readiness to buy the material even from Iran's arch-foe the United States.
Last year the International Atomic Energy Agency proposed sending Iranian low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad for further enrichment, denying Tehran refining capacity world powers fear could be used to help build an atomic bomb.
The offer would have seen the uranium returned to Iran in a high-grade form for use in a medical research reactor, but Tehran rejected the plan.
Ahmadinejad insisted that the exchange had to be "simultaneous," an Iranian stance that has led to a deadlock over the deal.
"We are ready for an exchange even with the United States. The US can come and give us their 20 percent fuel and we will pay them if they want, or we can give them 3.5 percent fuel," he said.
"But the swap should take place simultaneously and we will put our fuel under the supervision of the (UN atomic) agency in Iran," he added. He did not say if the exchange must take place inside Iran as insisted on by other Iranian officials.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a press conference in Tehran. Ahmadinejad warned that world powers would regret any moves to slap new sanctions on Iran, while stressing the Islamic republic was still ready for a nuclear fuel exchange. (AFP/Atta Kenare)
Right, and you’re going to deliver a fierce “punch” to the West on the 11th, right? I’m still waiting on that one. If there is any indication that the UN is as impotent as a man with Rosie O’Donnell tattooed on the inside of his eyelids, it’s the fact that this idiot and his ridiculous regime is given a forum to address the world on par with other free countries.
And obama caves again, right?
if ya ain't preparing for war in the ME, you're living dangerously.. ;-)
Israeli soldiers take part in an army exercise at the Shizafon base, north of Eilat on February 2. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran's arch-foe Israel was mulling starting a war "next spring or summer" but has yet to make a final decision. (AFP/File/David Buimovitch)
The Iranian government can’t even refine their own oil into gasoline, good luck taking over the world knuckleheads...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the "evidence doesn't support" Iran's claim it has peaceful nuclear aims as she defended a US push for sanctions against Tehran. Duration: 00: 43(AFPTV/Pool)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives a speech during a "town hall" meeting at the Dar al-Hekma college for women in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Tuesday that world powers would regret any moves to slap new sanctions on Iran, while stressing that Tehran was still ready for a UN-brokered nuclear fuel deal. (AFP)
Stop. Or We’ll say Stop again.
U.N.
Put up or shut up, Imadinnerjacket
That asswipe needs SO much to be bitchslapped until his head is separated from his freakin’ neck.
Give me 15 minutes in a closed room with that little runt, that’s all I ask.
They will boil in their mother’s stomachs.
Still no additional sanctions brought to bear against Iran; so why do we even pretend to power position here? You would think there would be; as a matter of course; sanctions already on the books and ready to implement/ratchet up with their every determined agressive violation.
Russia, primarily, is the key. And in the last year, U.S. leverage with Russia has been FUBO.
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