Iran: "Too Late" To Stop Nuke Program

(CBS/AP)  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that it was "too late" to stop Iran's nuclear program and warned the U.S. and its allies not to push for new U.N. sanctions, comparing his country to a lion sitting quietly in a corner.

"We advise them not to play with the lion's tail," Ahmadinejad said, drawing applause from a room of reporters, Iranian officials and foreign dignitaries at a Tehran news conference.

Asked about Ahmadinejad's comment that it was too late to halt Iran's nuclear push, U.S. State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said: "It isn't."

"He could make the decision today to take up the reasonable offer to negotiate with the rest of the world so that Iran can make peaceful nuclear energy and not have a cloud hanging over the country," McCormack said. "The international system is not going to be intimidated by these kinds of threats and this bluff and bluster by the Iranian government."

But shortly after Ahmadinejad's press conference, Iran issued its harshest refutation yet of American demands to release dual citizens held in Iran on espionage charges.

Iran's foreign ministry said American abuses — from prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo to a UCLA police officer's shocking an
Iranian-American student with a Taser — showed Washington had no
right to criticize Iran's human rights record.

"Instead of offering inefficient suggestions, America should assess its own tactics - secret prisons, mistreatment and even inhuman treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in a statement released by his office.

Iran has detained Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; Kian Tajbakhsh with George Soros' Open Society Institute; journalist Parnaz Azima from the U.S.-funded Radio Farda; and Ali Shakeri, a peace activist and founding board member at the University of California, Irvine, Center for Citizen Peace building.

The Iranian statement referred to three Iranian-Americans charged with espionage and endangering national security, without providing names.

Despite pressure, Iran has only become stronger, Ahmadinejad said at the news conference.

The Iranian president also appeared to dismiss ambitions of using the controversial nuclear program for weapons making.

"What is atomic bomb good for? Thoughts can't be changed by nuclear bomb. Today is the day of thought and logic," he said.

Washington and some of its allies fear Iran is trying to develop atomic weapons in violation of its commitments under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran denies the accusations and says the treaty gives it the right to pursue uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes.

Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for direct negotiations with Washington in the nuclear standoff, an offer President Bush's administration refuses to accept until Tehran verifiably halts all enrichment activities.

CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk says "Iranian officials have ratcheted up the pressure for negotiations with more direct threats - while their technology advances."

The U.N. Security Council first imposed sanctions on Iran in December and modestly increased them in March over Iran's refusal to suspend enrichment. The council is now preparing to debate on a third round of punitive measures.

An IAEA report in May provided the potential trigger for another round of sanctions by saying Tehran continued to defy the Security Council ban on enrichment and instead was expanding its activities.

But, Falk says, "with contentious issues creating a rift in the U.S. - Russia relationship, the Bush administration is now going to have to deal with Moscow's problem with missile defense systems before there is likely to be consensus at the U.N. on Iran."

[tbweb]

"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that it was "too late" to stop Iran's nuclear program and warned the U.S. and its allies not to push for new U.N. sanctions, comparing his country to a lion sitting quietly in a corner. "

A lion sitting quietly in the corner? Must be a male lion! Male lions are lazy and don't even hunt! All male lions do is eat first, screw_ and watch the kids and even eat the kids when there is no food! The female lions are the ones that hunt and bring home the bacon! Much like the female women of Islam and Persia who do all the hard work and hunt for their lazy men who mistreat them and screw_ as many female lions as they can. Okay Ahmadinejad, you keep sitting in that corner and soon the female lions of Islam and Persia will get tired of your lazy nuclear seeking assses and hunt and consume you too, and stop eating your kids, thats what male lions do! Why would you even be so stupid as to compare yourself to that? Sitting in the corner! ROTFLMAO

[toolmangler-2009]

PSYCHOSIS "CHRISTIANITY".
Posted by patriotic9

(from previous post)
The 'World Powers that be' are positioning 'Religion' (ALL Religion) to be outlawed. They are using catch-phrases like 'Phsychosis, Two-faced, Zionist, Christian, Muslim, Radicalized, Child-raping and other forms of fear inducing rhetoric to brand 'Religion' as having no redeeming values. Religion of itself is no threat to the NWO but the fact that it is an 'emotional' tool that differing factions might use to stop the spread of "Man as GOD" on this Planet is enough to make it a chief target of those who wish for "Their wills to be done" without thought of consequenses.
This week the top security people are discussing the new "Tamperproof ID card" to replace our existing social security cards. What will come next? RFID devices implanted in our skin, Retinal scanning, removal of guns from the citizenery?
Somebody should write a book about it, maybe call it by some name that would stick in our memories, like mabbe a date or something. 2004 or 2024 or possily 1984. HHHHHMMMMMMM!!!! that has a certain ring to it!!

[patriotic9]

I can go to the Bible for what's happening in the world. If that bothers you, oh well, it's a free country remember and I choose to place my faith in charge of my life instead of a secular worldview of things.

Singinrick,
unfortunately, it's not a free country yet. Once we get rid of PSYCHOSIS "CHRISTIANITY", then there will be real freedom in United States.
Rightnow, Homosexuals are not free to marry unlike Heterosexual Citizens(Discrimination based on SEXUAL ORIENTAION which is a violation of Human rights), women are not allowed to be TOPLESS in public unlike male citizens (Gender-based Discrimination which is a violation of Human rights), etc.

[grazinggoat]

"He could make the decision today to take up the reasonable offer to negotiate with the rest of the world so that Iran can make peaceful nuclear energy and not have a cloud hanging over the country," McCormack said. "The international system is not going to be intimidated by these kinds of threats and this bluff and bluster by the Iranian

-This does not sound peace-intentioned... Iran is better watch out.

-Does anyone know what are the negotiation about and what terms and conditions offered? I feel kinda blinded by my ignorance regarding this deal. Can we judge/comment this matter without knowing what has been proposed in the deal?

-On the other hand, Iran has all rights to be protected (self-protected) since no good intentions have filtered from our Walking-Liar toward them. Only the opposite. Unless the USA clearly stipulates with guarantees a non-aggression deal toward Iran, which is far from evident, not with such a Walking-Liar we have in office, we all guess.

[infidel_us]

By the way, I'm a good family man who served his country and believes that his country should act honorably. So f*ck you about your "man" comment. Only a coward changes his ideals because he is afraid.
Posted by Rafterman1 at 01:33 PM : Jun 05, 2007

LOL....I consider myself f*cked! :) My apologies. I just get sort of passionate about people who make excuses for other's bad behavior - especially to the detrement of the US. Frankly, I don't care what this maniac thinks. He is one notch above insane (like all thes islamo-fascist terrorists). And as far as I'm concerned, the only good one is a dead one!

Do you own the Colt AR15? I recently purchased a Ruger KP95. Since getting out of the navy, I always wanted an AR-15. My "Repel Boarders" station was the flying bridge with an M-16.

[neoconrcrazy]

The war we are fighting against radical Islam is a religious war.

Posted by singinrick


you really haven't the faintest idea - but simple explainations soothe simple minds....

the real reason for all this is our governments decisions on what constitutes "national interest". On most occasions they have been wrong;

- iran 1953 threw out democratically elected gov and into'd the Shah
- from 1947-2007 permitted israel to occupy and colonize palestinian lands, giving birth to Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah-
- since 1945 supported tyranical gulf states for oil
- supported, armed, Saddam in his war against iran

and the list goes on till the pot boils over.

God bless simple minds!

[infidel_us]

It doesn't occur just because people are evil. It's part of cause-effect. Posted by Rafterman1 at 09:45 AM : Jun 05, 2007

I get it. So, in the case of William "Cold Cash Jefferson (D-LA), he is not REALLY a criminal. I mean, he grew up as a poor farm boy.....he had to endure all that racial strife.....so really, he should get a pass, right? I mean, D*A*M*N......we OWE him!

So with these islamo fascist terrorists who flew jets in to the WTC, well.....I reckon we just had that one a comin', huh?

What a sad excuse for an American and a man. I swear, if these islamo fascists could see you, it would probably embolden them to invade us!

[markster6]

Perhaps the UN Security Council will hit Iran with severe sanctions like travel restrictions. If that doesn't stop Iran's non-compliance, in 60-90 days the UN Security Council can impose more travel restrictions. Who says the UN isn't effective?

Sorry for the sarcasm.

[cbs_oliver]

The Bush administration has made claims against several countries that they are pursuing actions which the Bush administration finds dangerous, and has waged economic war and issued military threats against those countries - and, in the case of Iraq, actually attacked and invaded.

It is usual for the Bush administration to demand that the countries it targets prove that they are not doing some thing. It is, of course, impossible for a country or person to prove that they are not doing something.

The imperial ambitions of the Bush crowd and others like them are a problem and a source of great suffering in the modern world.

It is too bad that they cannot really get their heads around the values that Christ taught and seek to profit from violence and deceit instead.

[cbs_oliver]

The Bush administration has made claims against several countries that they are pursuing actions which the Bush administration finds dangerous, and has waged economic war and issued military threats against those countries - and, in the case of Iraq, actually attacked and invaded.

It is usual for the Bush administration to demand that the countries it targets prove that they are not doing some thing. It is, of course, impossible for a country or person to prove that they are not doing something.

The imperial ambitions of the Bush crowd and others like them are a problem and a source of great suffering in the modern world.

It is too bad that they cannot really get their heads around the values that Christ taught and seek to profit from violence and deceit instead.