Ahmadinejad: Western nuclear pressure empowers Iran

my hunch is you are right.2010. The regime doesn't have the foresight (even with convoluted carpet-trading) to achieve any other outcome.Having perpetrated their summer coup,they are unrepentant and feeling falsely invulnerable. The old man is out of touch and the hangers-on a sorry bunch of budding geopoliticians.

While it is true the US supplied Iraq in that war in was Saddam's war. He started it to take back land(from Iran) he believed belonged to Iraq. The US having poor relations with Iran whom we considered our enemy since the embassy takeover and hostage crisis, we were only to happy to help Iraq. We chose sides but did not instigate that war. As you know Iran instigates trouble throughout the ME then funds the trouble through the use of its "proxies". What do they say "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". By contrast if Iran would stand down against Israel, Israel would not be a threat to Iran in any way, that is a difference worth noting, and I think is an important difference.

The West is asleep regarding Radical Islam (a term that is almost an oxymoron). Obama is a weakling, an appeaser to Islamic Terror. He will probably bring N.Y.C. under another attack with his latest "morally lofty" decision to try Guantanamo holdees as if they were citizens. Despicable. The phrase "he who has the axe gives the whacks" has never made more sense than in the West's behavior with radical Islamic regimes today. As Islamists chip away at the West, at democracies, the ostriches of the West just want it to all go away--but a HUGE CONFRONTATION awaits the West down the road when Iran and perhaps other homicidal regimes obtain radiological weapons. Why? Because they revere death and will have no compunction about using them. The U.S. and the EU need warriors today....not politicians.

No one denies that Iran is entitled to a nuclear program within the NPT. The reality is that this is not a civilian program but a military one. Iran could have developed gas fired electicity production in a way that would have been economicaly viable and cleaner than oil fired production. Iran's secretive, deeply buried and heavily protected facilities will never produce cost-effective electricity. Meanwhile Iran makes threats against Israel and continues to sponsor terrorism. Russian support for Iran has now been peeled away. China, Venezuala, Cuba and Syria are now Iran's only friends. A fearful Saudi Arabia has made inroads into allaying China's energy insecurity. Domesticly, Ahmadinerjad has lost credibility. Iran may now threaten to leave the NPT but that won't help them. A military confrontation will happen in 2010 and Iran will lose.

"The Iranian nation's nuclear rights are not negotiable and our nuclear cooperation will be done within the UN nuclear watchdog's framework . . " - Ahmadi nejad Then why does he not shut up and answer the IAEA's questions? Why does Iran not come back under the Additional Protocols? If Iran wants the world to cooperate with it, Irant need only cooperate with the IAEA.

The US supply weapons to their 'proxies' - Iran is doing no different. The US WAS actively involved in the Iran Iraq war - they supported Saddam both economically and diplomatically and also provided intelligence. I too wish that the US, Israel, and Iran could live in peace. Iran does indeed 'stir things up' and cause some trouble, but it is debatable if they do any more trouble causing than either Israel or the US.

I am no fan of Irans President, however their 'mentallity' is partly the result of the threats of attack (or actual attack in the case of US backed Iraq in the 80's) over the last 30 years. If Iran did not 'over protect' their key infrastructure you can bet that either the US or israel would have ben sorely tempted to 'have a go' by now. As for other countries protecting thier facilities, I bet Israel relies on more than a guard dog and barbed wire fence to protect their assets - because they too have faced threats of, or actual attack.

There are some great mathematicians in Iran we know but there are also some even more calculated regime accountants who without conscience easily justify spending untold billions extra with unecessarily digging and reinforcing their "civilian" nuclear program deep underground and then ringing it with sophisticated Russian defence weaponry, thereby postponing any return on investment for over a century to come. Here in the West, a decent barbwire fence and a electrical warning sign without even a pitbull guard dog is sufficient to keep out innocent passers-by from getting accidently electrocuted by our civilian energy program. Don't be such a disengenous apologist for an overzealous convert to Islam whose exclusive, brutal, militant national and international agenda has been denounced publicly by even Saudi Arabia.

Iran was just caught sending weapons to Hamas, and we know Iran sends weapons to Hezbollah via Syria. It is Israel that is threatened by Iran! Israel want to live in peace within its community in the Middle East. Iran on the other hand want "to wipe Israel off the map". Iran's last war with Iraq had nothing to do with Israel or the U.S.. It was a land dispute between Iran and Iraq. I do wish with you that Israel, the U.S. and Iran could live in peace. It would be better for them and the world. We simply disagree who the true threat is, I believe it's Iran that causes all the trouble, not Israel or the U.S., and the Iranian record(for causing trouble) bears that out.

"Iran sits on some of the worlds biggest oil reserves. It is very obvious to anybody but a fool that Iran has no need for "peaceful nuclear power", but definitely wants nuclear weapons." This is not analysis. But a top of the head outburst. It might do you some good to read more and type less. 1. The US was actively trying to encourage the Shah to employ civil nuclear power back in the 70's! Benn, the former UK energy sec has testified to this. 2.There is a huge amount of analysis which makes Irans civil nuclear program an economically sound policy. Only a few dim souls are not aware of this analysis. Highly valuable oil can provide vital foreign exchange which other areas of Iranian industry can not yet bring. Ask yourself why Iran is actively developing massive hydro electric projects, along with solar and wind power? It makes your argument redundant. Look it up you fool instead of blabbing on about a subject in total ignorance.

it is not in breach of NPT. Missile development is also not in breach of any international treaty. Were it so,Israel would be in the dock long before Iran! Please cut the hypocrisy on here. it is laughable.

"Iran sits on some of the worlds biggest oil reserves. It is very obvious to anybody but a fool that Iran has no need for "peaceful nuclear power", but definitely wants nuclear weapons." This is not analysis. But a top of the head outburst. It might do you some good to read more and type less. 1. The US was actively trying to encourage the Shah to employ civil nuclear power back in the 70's! Benn, the former UK energy sec has testified to this. 2.There is a huge amount of analysis which makes Irans civil nuclear program an economically sound policy. Only a few dim souls are not aware of this analysis. Highly valuable oil can provide vital foreign exchange which other areas of Iranian industry can not yet bring. Ask yourself why Iran is actively developing massive hydro electric projects, along with solar and wind power? It makes your argument redundant. Look it up you fool instead of blabbing on about a subject in total ignorance.

Iran is fulfilling its rights to itself as a sovereign nation and rising power, aswell as insuring irans future and that of it citizens. Iran hasnt attack any nation in ME outside of the Iraq war (A defensive war). Whereas It's neighbours Iraq has attacked it and still poses a possible future threat, as do the israelis who have not only been an instrumental part of the shah regime but have since then been hostile and threatened them with air strikes. Iran has every right to protect itself. As for war crimes, Iran has far less to answer for, than many other ME countries like Israel for example.

it is not in breach of NPT. Missile development is also not in breach of any international treaty. Were it so,Israel would be in the dock long before Iran! cut the hypocrisy on here. it is laughable.

A/jet needs talk to Saddam Ivanovich

Chaim, Iran has the right to be a nation of course, just like Israel does although its not recognised by the UN on its current borders.What has Iran done wrong to the world? It is only struggling to continue as a nation in face of threats from its adversaries which are the US and Israel.Whatever it has done or threatened, has been solely directed at those countries who are threatening its interests. It has relatively good relations with the west if you dont count the current nuclear dispute.Israels or americas enemies are not necesarily the worlds enemy or make it evil.No country is perfect but certainly Iran doesnt have the record that Israel has when it comes to military actions.I truely beleive that if Israel and US respected Irans interests, the three countries would be allies and contribute to peace and advancement in the middle east. And imagine what a market of 70 million iranians would be for Israel in the long term.

The Iranian government reminds us of Saddam Hussein - they lie as much as possible in order to get nuclear weapons. The world will be more dangerous with a nuclear equipped Iran. Iran sits on some of the worlds biggest oil reserves. It is very obvious to anybody but a fool that Iran has no need for "peaceful nuclear power", but definitely wants nuclear weapons. Since Iran is on record saying they want Israel wiped off the map, the Palestinians, Jordanians and Iraqis should all be worried - they are all either downwind or in target range. Wiping Israel off the map may take a few million Palestinian and Jordanian martyrs too - something we know the Iranians are not hesitant to do.

iran has no right under the npt to acquire, develop or build nuclear weapons. iran is doing all of the above. hence, iran is in material breach of the npt, a treaty among nations. iran is also in violation of chapter vii unscr's mandating that iran stop enriching uranium, stop all nuclear weapons building, and stop all ballistic missiles development. in case iran is not informed, the u.s. has seized assets worth hunderds of millions of dollars belonging illegally to iranian agents and their government. more of the same is on the way. iran faces some very serious problems if it does not cease and desist.

It seems that Iran's government is forfeiting it's rights to govern itself and as a rogue, hostile nation is bringing it's people to a fiery abyss. Iran needs to be stopped and it's government charged with war crimes.