Breaking: Iranian president rejects U.N. nuke deadline

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Ahmadinejad says Tehran plans to go ahead with nuclear program

BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services
Updated: less than 1 minute ago

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday rejected a U.N. Security Council resolution that would give Iran until Aug. 31 to suspend uranium enrichment.

Instead, Ahmadinejad insisted Tehran would pursue its nuclear program.

“My words are the words of the Iranian nation. Throughout Iran, there is one slogan: ‘The Iranian nation considers the peaceful use of nuclear fuel production technology its right,”’ Ahmadinejad said.

Tehran has repeatedly denied Western charges that it is developing nuclear fuel for warheads, insisting its atomic scientists are only working on the peaceful producd European financing.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12342825/

[ananda]

1. What a surprise..

.. not.

[wtmusic]

2. Get your war on. nt

[David__77]

3. Good.

Iran has a right to pursue a nuclear power program, and it should not surrender its sovereignty, nor should it submit to war blackmail.

[snappyturtle]

4. Someone help me out here......

last weekend I heard on TV a man speak of what Iran has offerred to do to qualm the worl's suspicions of their pursuit of nuclear energy. These were: placement of a consortium of nations to be freely able to inspect their enrichment sites, to limit the amount of yellowcake for enrichment and thirdly, a permanent status for AEIA for inspection---not just periodic inspections. According to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, isn't Iran allowed to seek enrichment for energy resource reasons?How can the U.S. and others pervent this? I don't understand why we and other nations think we can dictate who can and cannot have nuclear energy.

[ER One Seven]

5. Bad move by the UN

Now they will actually have to grow a backbone. I shouldnt say grow a backbone, but they have put themselves in the middle of this mess now. Where as before, it was just us complaining about it.

[izzie]

6. It has become very scary to really look at a Middle East map

Pull one up and just eye ball where the trouble is.

[Clark2008]

7. What - that "cresent" (which is even more ironic)?

What's there that makes this so odd? Is this where the Halliburtons of the world have so-long planned their money pipelines? (And, by money, I mean oil).

[Miss Chybil]

8. Halliburton, et al, don't want more oil, they want less oil that costs

more.

This is the epiphany I had yesterday and I'm sticking with it. It's much more profitable to sell less oil at higher prices than to sell more oil at less. So, their plan to blow up the Middle East and thus, create less oil is going along quite splendidly.