I hope Iran carries out these threats. I see no other alternative.
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Iran poised to retaliate against UN referral
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran threatened to retaliate if it is hauled before the UN Security Council over its disputed nuclear program, by kick-starting sensitive fuel cycle work and blocking international inspections.
In a barrage of threats on the eve of a key meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also vowed Iran would "continue on the road to victory" and labelled US President George W. Bush a warmonger.
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"If Iran's case is referred or reported to the Security Council... Iran's cooperation will decrease," Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani told a news conference.
"The government will be obliged to remove suspensions, which includes industrial-scale enrichment, and it will do so," he said, adding that a massive enrichment plant at Natanz in central Iran was "ready for operation".
"Inspections will be restricted. They will not have the right to go to military sites which we had so far allowed them to go to. Some of their cameras will be taken down," Larijani said of the now three-year-old IAEA investigation into Iran's nuclear activities.
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"Those who possess stocks of nuclear arms meet together and take decisions and think that the Iranian people will submit to their decisions," Ahmadinejad fumed earlier in a speech in the south of the country.
"Our people will not bow to a few tyrannical countries who think they are the whole world," said Ahmadinejad, accusing world powers of treating Iranians like "a second-rate people with no culture".
He also lashed out at Bush, who in his State of the Union address Tuesday branded the Islamic republic "a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people".
"You who support the Zionist puppet regime, you who support the destruction of Palestinian homes, you have no right to talk about liberty or human rights," shouted Ahmadinejad, who has already called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or moved as far away as Alaska.
"God willing, in the near future we will judge you in a people's tribunal," he said of Bush.
Larijani also appeared to be bracing for an escalation of the crisis, saying Iran was no longer even insisting on having more time for negotiation "because we have prepared ourselves for another scenario".
He said his talks Wednesday with Russian and Chinese deputy foreign ministers also failed to bear fruit: "They had a point of view on solving the issue, but we had a different point of view."
Iran claims it is cooperating fully with an IAEA investigation, although the latest IAEA report shows Tehran refusing to give agency inspectors all the information or interviews they want and possessing a document containing information whose only use would be in making nuclear weapons.
Larijani played down the importance of the document, saying it "can be found on the Internet".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060201/wl_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060201184314;_ylt=AgmCSBzTtFr6GDLMsiUJIaZSw60A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Iran poised to retaliate against UN referral
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran threatened to retaliate if it is hauled before the UN Security Council over its disputed nuclear program, by kick-starting sensitive fuel cycle work and blocking international inspections.
In a barrage of threats on the eve of a key meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also vowed Iran would "continue on the road to victory" and labelled US President George W. Bush a warmonger.
...
"If Iran's case is referred or reported to the Security Council... Iran's cooperation will decrease," Iran's top national security official Ali Larijani told a news conference.
"The government will be obliged to remove suspensions, which includes industrial-scale enrichment, and it will do so," he said, adding that a massive enrichment plant at Natanz in central Iran was "ready for operation".
"Inspections will be restricted. They will not have the right to go to military sites which we had so far allowed them to go to. Some of their cameras will be taken down," Larijani said of the now three-year-old IAEA investigation into Iran's nuclear activities.
...
"Those who possess stocks of nuclear arms meet together and take decisions and think that the Iranian people will submit to their decisions," Ahmadinejad fumed earlier in a speech in the south of the country.
"Our people will not bow to a few tyrannical countries who think they are the whole world," said Ahmadinejad, accusing world powers of treating Iranians like "a second-rate people with no culture".
He also lashed out at Bush, who in his State of the Union address Tuesday branded the Islamic republic "a nation now held hostage by a small clerical elite that is isolating and repressing its people".
"You who support the Zionist puppet regime, you who support the destruction of Palestinian homes, you have no right to talk about liberty or human rights," shouted Ahmadinejad, who has already called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" or moved as far away as Alaska.
"God willing, in the near future we will judge you in a people's tribunal," he said of Bush.
Larijani also appeared to be bracing for an escalation of the crisis, saying Iran was no longer even insisting on having more time for negotiation "because we have prepared ourselves for another scenario".
He said his talks Wednesday with Russian and Chinese deputy foreign ministers also failed to bear fruit: "They had a point of view on solving the issue, but we had a different point of view."
Iran claims it is cooperating fully with an IAEA investigation, although the latest IAEA report shows Tehran refusing to give agency inspectors all the information or interviews they want and possessing a document containing information whose only use would be in making nuclear weapons.
Larijani played down the importance of the document, saying it "can be found on the Internet".
