 merrie says: Ahmadinejad’s fresh comments came ahead of his appearance at the United Nations General Assembly next week and before Tehran attends talks on Oct. 1 with major powers worried about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear strategy. NUCLEAR PROGRAMME Ahmadinejad repeated on Thursday that Iran would “never” abandon its disputed nuclear programme to appease critics. In an NBC-TV interview, he also offered no direct response when asked whether there were any conditions under which Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. “We don’t need nuclear weapons,” Ahmadinejad said, speaking through an interpreter. “We do not see any need for such weapons. And the conditions around the world are moving to favour our ideas,” he added. President Barack Obama, who came to office pledging to engage with Iran, has suggested Tehran may face harsher sanctions, possibly targeting its gasoline imports, if it does not accept good-faith talks by the end of September. But Russia, which has veto power in the U.N. Security Council, last week ruled out oil sanctions against Iran. Iran, the world’s fifth-biggest crude producer, is seen as vulnerable to oil sanctions because it imports 40 percent of its gasoline to supply the cheap fuel Iranians see as a birthright. TURMOIL AT HOME On Friday, Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in Tehran. Thousands of supporters of Mousavi, wearing green wristbands or shawls, were among crowds marching in the “Qods Day” rallies. The state news agency IRNA said Mousavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi, b... And the "Hope & Change" folks in Washington still won't take the man at his word. I can't believe that they are purely naive anymore; it has to be much more sinister than that to refuse to confront the reality of the changing global balance. Hmmm...which will please many who believed that the US was a threat by being the "only Superpower". Think they'll like it when we're not?? When Obama has bankrupted us...at breakneck speed...we will be at the mercy of our enemies and people will wonder 'what happened'? What happened to Great Britain is quickly happening to us. The Resistance? The only thing the Palestinians are resisting is their own extermination. People are starting to see Israel for what it really is, A psychotic bully, the old threat of anti-semitism is wearing thin. While I'm on the subject: "Semite 2 entries found. 1. Semite (noun) 2. anti-Semitism (noun) * Main Entry: Sem·ite * Pronunciation: \ˈse-ˌmīt, especially British ˈsē-ˌmīt\ * Function: noun * Etymology: French sémite, from Sem Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek Sēm, from Hebrew Shēm * Date: 1848 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these p... |
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