Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran President Ahmadinejad – The West Won’t Deprive Iran of Its Nuclear Technology

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) greets Chief of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Tehran, June 2, 2006.

ASSoicated Press: Iran defends right to nuclear technology

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday that the West won’t deprive Iran of its nuclear technology, sounding a defiant note after the world’s major powers stepped up pressure for Tehran to accept a new package of incentives to halt its uranium enrichment program.

Ahmadinejad did not directly mention the package agreed to on Thursday by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, which urges Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and come back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.

But he insisted on Iran’s right to pursue nuclear technology.

The Quotes:

“The efforts of some Western countries to deprive us will not bear any fruit,” he said, according to the state news agency IRNA.

“The reason of their opposition is not their claim of concern over nuclear weapons, but Iran’s access to the technology that means opening of the way for all independent countries, especially Islamic countries to the advanced technology,” he said after talks with the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

“Unfortunately, some who have huge arsenals of nuclear weapons and are not members of NPT, are today in the position of decision making and want to deprive us from our inalienable rights,” he said.

So, Flap understands this to mean NO.

When will the diplomats understand that Iran covets a nuclear weapon to give them POWER in the region and world.

Iran does not want to DANCE (negotiate).

In the meantime, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turns up the diplomatic heat:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tehran must decide quickly whether to resume negotiations.

“We do need to have an answer and it can’t be months,” Rice said in on NBC’s “Today” show. “It really needs to be within weeks.”

The United States has won this round of world diplomacy. Iran has rejected the world community while the United States made direct overtures to defuse the crisis.

Now swift action before the UNSC is imperative and then the inevitable if Iran does NOT stand down their nuclear program.

Stay tuned……