Ahmadinejad: Iran's Nuclear Issue "Closed"

Iranian President Indicates Tehran Will Disregard U.N. Security Council Resolutions

(CBS/AP)  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday that "the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed," and indicated that Tehran will disregard U.N. Security Council resolutions imposed by "arrogant powers" that demand suspension of its uranium enrichment program.

Instead, he said, Iran has decided to pursue the monitoring of its nuclear program "through its appropriate legal path," the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog.

When Ahmadinejad was ushered to the podium of the U.N. General Assembly to speak, the U.S. delegation walked out, leaving only a low-ranking note-taker to listen to his speech.

The Iranian leader spoke hours after French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned the assembly that allowing Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons would be an "unacceptable risk to stability in the region and in the world."

Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel threatened tougher sanctions against Iran if the country remains intractable on the dispute over its nuclear program.

Iran insists that its nuclear program is purely peaceful and aimed solely at producing nuclear energy. But the United States and key European nations believe the program is a cover for Iran's real ambition: producing nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad has defied two Security Council resolutions demanding that it suspend its uranium enrichment program and imposing escalating sanctions against key figures and organizations involved in the nuclear program. He made clear in his speech that Iran does not intend to comply with them now.

"In the last two years, abusing the Security Council, the arrogant powers have repeatedly accused Iran and even made military threats and imposed illegal sanctions against it," the Iranian leader said.

"Fortunately, the IAEA has recently tried to regain its legal role as support of the rights of its members while supervising nuclear activities," he said. "We see this as a correct approach adopted by the agency."

"Previously, they illegally insisted on politicizing the Iranian nation's nuclear case, but today, because of the resistance of the Iranian nation, the issue is back to the agency, and I officially announce that in our opinion the nuclear issue of Iran is now closed and has turned into an ordinary agency matter," Ahmadinejad said.

Congress signaled its disapproval of the Iranian president with a vote Tuesday to tighten sanctions against his government and a call to designate his army a terrorist group.

The swift rebuke was a rare display of bipartisan cooperation in a Congress bitterly divided on the Iraq war. It reflected lawmakers' long-standing nervousness about Tehran's intentions in the region, particularly toward Israel - a sentiment fueled by the pro-Israeli lobby whose influence reaches across party lines in Congress.

"Iran faces a choice between a very big carrot and a very sharp stick," said Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "It is my hope that they will take the carrot. But today, we are putting the stick in place."

The House passed, by a 397-16 vote, a proposal by Lantos, D-Calif., aimed at blocking foreign investment in Iran, in particular its lucrative energy sector. The bill would specifically bar the president from waiving U.S. sanctions.

Current law imposes sanctions against any foreign company that invests $20 million or more in Iran's energy industry, although the U.S. has waived or ignored sanction laws in exchange for European support on nonproliferation issues.

In the Senate, Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., proposed a nonbinding resolution urging the State Department to label Iran's military - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - a terrorist organization.

The Bush administration had already been planning to blacklist a unit within the Revolutionary Guard, subjecting part of the vast military operation to financial sanctions.

Lantos' bill was expected to draw criticism from U.S. allies in Europe. During a visit to Washington last week, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told lawmakers that France opposes any U.S. legislation that would target European countries operating in Iran. He argued that such sanctions could undermine cooperation on dealing with Iran.

[pwrslm]

why this guy should never have been in the USA:

From the official Iranian news agency:

Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad''s scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon.
On second day of his entry in New York, and amid standing ovation of the audience that had attended the hall where the Iranian President was to give his lecture as of early hours of the day, Ahmadinejad said that Iran is not going to attack any country in the world.

Before President Ahamadinejad''s address, Colombia University Chancellor in a brief address told the audience that they would have the chance to hear Iran''s stands as the Iranian President would put them forth.

He said that the Iranians are a peace loving nation, they hate war, and all types of aggression.

Referring to the technological achievements of the Iranian nation in the course of recent years, the president considered them as a sign for the Iranians'' resolute will for achieving sustainable development and rapid advancement.

The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises.

At the end of his address President Ahmadinejad answered the students'' questions on such issues as Israel, Palestine, Iran''s nuclear program, the status of women in Iran and a number of other matters.

[lars008-2009]

Posted by taotxzen at 10:24 AM : Sep 26, 2007

hahaha

there is no such thing as perfect intel,,, but you knew that already,,,

Foreign Intel Had Identified WMD Sites
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007528.php

Top Secret: Bush Told the Truth About WMD
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=26457045-1E9E-4795-9D31-0E5B73E74EE9

[pwrslm]

"Crucify amadenijad, the WORDSMITH!"

"And give us bush, the MASS MURDERER!"

Some things never seem to change with the Jews. LOL

Message?
Americans, save yourselves from the wicked & wanton slaughter!
Extricate yourselves from the Middle East madness of endless vengeance and violence, which has been going on among Middle East war lovers for thousands of years now!
Posted by Agnim

In truth, you have a fantastic imagination; the reality is your hatred toward the jews compels you to lie.

Bigots are always liars.

[agnim]

CRUCIFIXION! American version

BARABBAS -- Mass murdering US President with his HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES IN IRAQ!

JESUS -- Talkative Iran Preeacher with his hundreds of MERE WORDS!

And the violence-loving Jews AGAIN yelled, "Crucify him!"
"Crucify him!"

"Crucify amadenijad, the WORDSMITH!"

"And give us bush, the MASS MURDERER!"

Some things never seem to change with the Jews. LOL

Message?
Americans, save yourselves from the wicked & wanton slaughter!
Extricate yourselves from the Middle East madness of endless vengeance and violence, which has been going on among Middle East war lovers for thousands of years now!

[tankersmash]

"Agnim, may a camel sh*t in your turban, you dirty haji!

Posted by S_Temper

LMFAO!!!! I love it!

[tankersmash]

"Agnim, may a camel sh*t in your turban, you dirty haji!

Posted by S_Temper

LMFAO!!!! I love it!

[tankersmash]

Look at all the genocidists here calling for death and destruction. You are all worse than Saddam, or Ahmadinejad, because you call for genocide against people who have not attacked you

You have thusly given up the moral right to say that Hitler and his followers were evil, as you advocate the exact same thing

Posted by brianbwb

Fck you, you peace pipe toking hippy moron. Just because some people like us have the balls to stand up and fight for our way life while fckers like you coward down doesn''t mean that we believe in Hitlerisms or mass genocide. Apparently your hippy *** took a few too many hits from the bong this morning...time to sober up and come back down to reality liberal. And fck you and your BS liberal comment about stealing resources and illegal occupation and whatever else your paraniod liberal mouth said....you liberal d1ckheads are so full *** it''s starting to come out ears and mouths both! Before you respond..here''s my response to whatever you say...fck you and your liberal cronies who are out of touch with reality and not willing to crawl out of the COWARD CLOSET and fight shoulder to shoulder with REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS.

[agnim]

""Haji" is slang for a dirty Muslim.

Posted by S_Temper at 11:16 AM : Sep 26, 2007"

So I take it that you are being an anti-semite; because you thought I was one of the maniac muslims from the Arabian Peninsula? LOL

[brianbwb-2009]

brianbwb, I''''m not promoting genocide. I''''m just saying that Ahmadinejad must be a latent homosexual - and so was his prophet Muhammad. But Muhammad probably had intercourse with camels too, so he was even worse than Ahmadathomos...I mean Ahmadinejad.
Posted by S_Temper

And so your purpose in insulting people whom you have never met, and religions that you don''t know anything about is...?

[agnim]

"Agnim, may a camel sh*t in your turban, you dirty haji!

Posted by S_Temper at 11:01 AM : Sep 26, 2007"

LOL
The shh!t in the turban is funny; but what is ''haji''?

As you know Americans aren''t as familiar with your foreign language in the maddening middle east?

[tankersmash]

We ALL worship in the US?
What''''s this ''''WE'''' ***?

Posted by jh6379

godless liberal heevens like you probably don''t worship...may you rot in hell-and your liberal ideology with you. Liberals like you are who are ruining this country and what we have stood for from day one. "ONE NATION UNDER GOD!"...but you wouldn''t know anything about that would you liberal?

[brianbwb-2009]

Look at all the genocidists here calling for death and destruction. You are all worse than Saddam, or Ahmadinejad, because you call for genocide against people who have not attacked you, for the most hypocritical of reasons.

To disguise cowardice, you deny the people their right to resist illegal occupation, deny them the right to a religion differing from the one which you falsely claim to follow, and otherwise try to cover up the true purpose of Bush''s genocide, so that the corrupt leaders can continue to steal resources, lives, and even our own money, paid with our taxes into the treasury.

You have thusly given up the moral right to say that Hitler and his followers were evil, as you advocate the exact same thing, for the exact same reasons.

[agnim]

CRUCIFIXION! American version

Barabbas -- Mass murdering US President with his HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEAD BODIES IN IRAQ!

Jesus -- Talkative Iran President with his hundreds of MERE WORDS!

And the violence-loving Jews AGAIN yelled, "Crucify him!"
"Crucify him!"

"Crucify amadenijad, the WORDSMITH!"

"And give us bush, the MASS MURDERER!"

Some things never seem to change with the Jews. LOL

Message?
Americans, save yourselves from the wicked & wanton slaughter!
Extricate yourselves from the Middle East madness of endless vengeance and violence, which has been going on among Middle East war lovers for thousands of years now!

[mudrose-2009]

Methinks he doth protest too much. Ahmadinejad is probably a latent homosexual; why else would he be so adamant about denying the existence of gay people in Iran?
Posted by S_Temper

He hands homos. That''''s why they don''''t exist in Iran.

Posted by mudrose

Apparently the spell checker doesn''t like the word h/ang. But that''s what Ahmie does to homos.

[mudrose-2009]

Methinks he doth protest too much. Ahmadinejad is probably a latent homosexual; why else would he be so adamant about denying the existence of gay people in Iran?
Posted by S_Temper

He hands homos. That''s why they don''t exist in Iran.

[taotxzen]

lars008

My point is that you can blame Gore or Hillary or anybody else that was naive enough to believe the manipulated intelligence that they were fed by this administration on its push for the war in Iraq.

However, you must also fault yourself because you bought the same horse.

[taotxzen]

Ans so on..

January 27, 2003
In the days preceding the President''s State of the Union address, CIA proliferation expert Alan Foley discovers that the White House is attempting to revive the Niger yellowcake claim, and objects. NSC aide Robert Joseph, a long-time crony of Richard Perle and Frank Gaffney, insists that the claim must go in. After negotiations, a compromise is reached, by which the claim will be attributed to the British government.

That''s were we get the whole world believed that they had nuclear weapons...

[taotxzen]

More still...

During 2002 Cheney, Libby and Newt Gingrich (of Richard Perle''s Defense Policy Board) all pay numerous visits to CIA Headquarters to press CIA analysts to come up with incriminating evidence against Iraq.

[tankersmash]

GOD BLESS MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD......

Posted by V_1618

You MUST be an ignorant west hating haji....not only do you spit your support for a terrorist on your desktop, the only thing you ever say is "daaaaaaaaaa god bless M-A". Notice that the word god is with a lowercase "g"...b/c YOUR haji god of terror is not the same God we worship in the US. Why am I wasting my time??? You can''t read and write anyway haji.

[taotxzen]

More of the same...

October 27, 2002


Some in Bush administration have misgivings about Iraq policy

by Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and the CIA are waging a bitter feud over secret intelligence that is being used to shape U.S. policy toward Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials.
The dispute has been fueled by the creation within the Pentagon of a special unit that provides senior policymakers with alternate assessments of Iraq intelligence.
Administration hawks who have been leading proponents of invading Iraq oversee the Pentagon unit, which is producing its own analyses of raw intelligence reports obtained from the CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency and other agencies, the officials said.
The dispute pits hardliners long distrustful of the U.S. intelligence community against professional military and intelligence officers who fear the hawks are shaping intelligence analyses to support their case for invading Iraq.
A major source of contention is the Pentagon''s heavy reliance on data supplied by the Iraqi National Congress. The INC, the largest group within the divided Iraqi opposition, has a mixed reputation in Washington and a huge stake in whether President Bush makes good on his threat to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam by force. Its leader, Ahmed Chalabi, sees himself as a potential successor.