Iran On Nukes: Full Speed Ahead

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said his country would move forward with its disputed nuclear program despite international demands that it halt uranium enrichment, comparing Iran's program to a train without brakes, state-run radio reported.

The hard-line leader also repeated his call for negotiations, saying the time for "bullying" had expired.

"The train of Iranian nation is without brakes and rear gear," the radio quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a gathering of Islamic clerics. "We dismantled the rear gear and brakes of the train and threw them away sometime ago."

Ahmadinejad's comments come a day before senior officials of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, the U.S., France, China and Russia — and Germany were set to meet for an emergency summit in London to discuss measures against Tehran over its defiant nuclear stance.

The International Atomic Energy Agency last week reported that Iran had ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze its uranium enrichment program and instead had expanded the program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.

In December, the Security Council imposed limited sanctions on Iran over its refusal to suspend enrichment and gave it a 60-day grace period to halt enrichment. That grace period expired Wednesday.

Iran has repeatedly refused to halt enrichment as a precondition to negotiations about its program. Enriched to a low level, uranium is used to produce nuclear fuel but further enrichment makes it suitable for use in building an atomic bomb.

The United States and several of its allies fear that Iran is using its nuclear program to produce atomic weapons — charges Iran denies, saying its aim is to generate electricity.

Ahmadinejad also said Western countries feel threatened by Iran's nuclear program because they feel their own powers are diminishing.

"The Westerners are not concerned about the existence and activity of ... centrifuges in Iran; they are concerned about the collapse of their hegemony and hollow power," the radio quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

[lars008-2009]

peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "

[pwrslm]

Iran is headed by evil men, with evil designs to do evil things. It may sound nice that the coin terms like the Great Satan when they speak of the USA and other western nations, but we must judge the tree by the fruit it bears.

When Iranian citizens are sentenced to death for homosexuality, we see the fruit the laws of Iran bears.

When the courts of Iran pass life sentences against people who are not given any right to protect them selves, and those that are, are severly limited because of bias and corruption, we see the fruit of the tree that is Iran.

When people are dismembered for taking food without paying for it, we see the fruit of justice which is not in Iran.

What use to argue with anyone who upholds this regimes right to create nuclear fission material? When the heads of state of Iran publicly promote the destruction of Israel, we see the tree of hatred which is the head of the snake, which is Iran.

*** right these people can not be trusted.

[beehive21-2009]

Breceiv. You don't represent the Iranian people,sounds like you do represent the ones in the black robes with the long beards ,the ones spending all your oil money on war stuff, so go forward and challenge the world ,many have tried an failed,are you next ? A society like yours leaves a bad taste in the mouth,wiping someone from the earth? What you been eating,to make you so hateful ? Mellow out, George has already got you in his sights, a trigger pull away from the Big Bang.

[tbweb]

--breceivemail

Iran needs to calm down first! No one is going to agree that Iran should be trusted with nuclear power when its leader is suggesting that Israel be wiped off the map, speaking to the world in an arrogant and defiant tone, conducting provocative military exercises, ignoring U.N. resolutions and supporting terror groups! Is Iran serious? For example, if a peaceful country like Switzerland wanted to enrich uranium I don't think anyone would care, Switzerland is a peaceful country and doesn't antagonize or threaten anyone. No one trust Iran! Iran needs to calm down and build trust. The world doesn't trust Iran! Whose fault is that? Its Irans fault!! The Iranian leader is drunk with power!

[breceivemail]

If we resign our right to have nuclear energy, you will say that oil must be free. If we make the oil free, you will say that you must stop breathing.
You westerns are under a delusion.
We will not resign our independency.
Which one is a threat to world peace?
Iran or USA that has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Who attacked Iraq?
Who attacked Vietnam?
Who supported the contras in Nicaragua?
Who %u2026 ?

[breceivemail]

If we resign our right to have nuclear energy, you will say that oil must be free. If we make the oil free, you will say that you must stop breathing.
You westerns are under a delusion.
We will not resign our independency.
Which one is a threat to world peace?
Iran or USA that has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Who attacked Iraq?
Who attacked Vietnam?
Who supported the contras in Nicaragua?
Who %u2026 ?

[breceivemail]

If we resign our right to have nuclear energy, you will say that oil must be free. If we make the oil free, you will say that you must stop breathing.
You westerns are under a delusion.
We will not resign our independency.
Which one is a threat to world peace?
Iran or USA that has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Who attacked Iraq?
Who attacked Vietnam?
Who supported the contras in Nicaragua?
Who %u2026 ?

[breceivemail]

If we resign our right to have nuclear energy, you will say that oil must be free. If we make the oil free, you will say that you must stop breathing.
You westerns are under a delusion.
We will not resign our independency.
Which one is a threat to world peace?
Iran or USA that has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Who attacked Iraq?
Who attacked Vietnam?
Who supported the contras in Nicaragua?
Who %u2026 ?

[breceivemail]

If we resign our right to have nuclear energy, you will say that oil must be free. If we make the oil free, you will say that you must stop breathing.
You westerns are under a delusion.
We will not resign our independency.
Which one is a threat to world peace?
Iran or USA that has nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Who attacked Iraq?
Who attacked Vietnam?
Who supported the contras in Nicaragua?
Who %u2026 ?

[bluestardad]

The Bush Administration is covertly supporting a minimum of three Sunni al Qaeda organizations in Lebanon to act as a buffer against the Shiite Hezbollah. Yes and the money is coming from the billions of dollars unaccounted for from Iraq! This support is not regulated by Congress, is in direct contravention to the WAR on TERROR the NEOCONS expound, and is under the same pretext as the Iran Contra Scandal of the late 1980s! This was reported yesterday on CNN!

Email your senators and representatives and tell them your views! LET THEM KNOW YOU KNOW OF THIS DIRTY LITTLE SECRET!

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_in
formation/senators_cfm.cfm OR http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/