Iran Leader on Obama Nuke Rebuke: Back Off

By: Stephen Smith
Topics: Iran

(AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned President Obama on Friday not to press Tehran on the disclosure of a second uranium enrichment plant, Time Magazine reports.

"If I were [President] Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain making this statement because it is definitely a mistake. It would definitively be a mistake," Ahmadinejad told TIME in an exclusive interview.

Mr. Obama and the leaders of France and Britain demanded Friday that Iran fully disclose its nuclear ambitions "or be held accountable" to an impatient world community. They threatened new sanctions after the disclosure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility.

Ahmedinejad, who TIME characterized as "nonplussed by questions about the newly-revealed plant" said that Iran was not keeping anything from the IAEA. "We have no secrecy, we work within the framework of the IAEA," he said.

"This does not mean we must inform Mr. Obama's administration of every facility that we have,' Ahmedinejad said.

He added: "I'm not the person who should be giving this advice to Mr. Obama because principally, Mr. Obama's mistakes work in our favor. But still, we do not want to see a president of a country like the United States of America to make blunders of the sort, to make mistakes of the sort."

Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a senior editor for CBSNews.com

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by mrjoshcan September 26, 2009 5:43 AM EDT: Iran's responsibility to diverse cultural regime, such as Sunni or Shiite Muslim should fulfill Tehran's International Atomic Energy Agency obligation as proposed, by utilizing fairer partisanship among the many not as wealthy ratepayers of this "Republic's largest nationalized utility." That way Persia and surrounding Caucasus by social condition can become green while staying clean!; Reply to this comment


by underdogus09 September 25, 2009 4:42 PM EDT: bajajohn1....hello, yeah I'm still here,and loving it!! = ); Reply to this comment

by Liberal_Hysteria September 25, 2009 4:39 PM EDT

"Iran Leader on Obama Nuke Rebuke: Back Off"
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This guy is mocking Obama.My question is: what Israel is waiting for to do something?

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by worldcitizen1 September 27, 2009 7:07 PM EDT: Israel is doing all that they are capable of doing to stop Iran, trying to convince the US to assist them in starting a war. Israel wants to remain the dominate nuclear power in the region.


by Mybronda1 September 25, 2009 2:34 PM EDT: So, this being "just" revealed is another reason to blame bush? Yea of little knowledge. Go back to sleep fool!; Reply to this comment


by Mybronda1 September 25, 2009 2:32 PM EDT: Speaking of idiots . . . Bajajohn1 fits the bill.; Reply to this comment


by renonv5 September 25, 2009 2:21 PM EDT: Mahmoud is a huge mistake, huge!; Reply to this comment

by underdogus09 September 25, 2009 2:07 PM EDT

Be nice to the crocodile in hopes that he'll eat us last.....

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by bajajohn1 September 25, 2009 2:08 PM EDT: Underdogus, you still living in Baja?

by bajajohn1 September 25, 2009 2:05 PM EDT

Obvioulsy the Bush Adminsitration did not have the courage to reveal the existence of this plant. It's revelation might have caused the loudmouth Dick Cheney to apologize for not protecting the United States.

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by Marc_1986 September 25, 2009 2:35 PM EDT: Like that would have had any impact on how liberals viewed Iran through their kaleidoscope? Nope!

by stuart-johns September 25, 2009 1:41 PM EDT

This idiot sounds more like a republican extremist every time I hear him. Or they sound more like him. Whichever does'nt matter. They both sound alike is the point.

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by bajajohn1 September 25, 2009 2:12 PM EDT: Stuart, you are being to kind to the Republicans--they are worse.


by Nacilbuper September 25, 2009 1:25 PM EDT: At the speech this morning he tells us Iran has a right to nukes, but then says they don't have the right to this new site. But, now we find out that he knew about the site when he told us that he just found out and that they don't have a right to it.

Huh?; Reply to this comment