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Showing posts with label 22 Bahman. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
UPDATE at 10:08 EST, Feb 11, 2010
Here we go -- from the NYT:
As security forces clashed with his opponents, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran was quoted on Thursday as saying his country had produced a first batch of uranium enriched to a level of 20 percent, taunting the West by declaring that if Tehran wanted to build a nuclear bomb, it would say so. Iran, he said, repeating an earlier assertion, was now “a nuclear state.”
Of course this is not unexpected -- and President Ahmadinejad continues to claim that Iran does not seek weaponization of their new stockpiles of HEU -- but what is clear is that both Ahmadeinejad and the Supreme Leader of Iran have placed joining the club of nuclear states at the center of their domestic and foreign policy agendas -- something that will make it near impossible to coerce or dissuade the Iranians from their current path.
While Ahmadinejad spoke, large protests surrounded the event, where police fired tear gas and arrested many -- among them the granddaughter of Ayatollah Khomenei -- the father of the Iranian Revolution.
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