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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Rejects “ILLEGAL International Obligations” of the United Nations Security Council

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In this image made available by CBS News, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, talks to American reporter Mike Wallace at the Presidential Palace in Tehran Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 for a ’60 Minutes’ report to be broadcast Aug. 13. Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that was one of Wallace’s most memorable, the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.

AFP: Iran rejects ‘illegal’ nuclear demands

Iran has again rejected an end-of-the-month UN Security Council deadline to suspend sensitive nuclear fuel work saying it would not accept “illegal international obligations”.

“We will continue our nuclear activities and do not accept illegal international obligations,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying by state television Thursday.

“We will not retreat from the nation’s rights under any circumstances and our diplomacy is based on protecting national interests,” Mottaki added.

The UN Security Council has given Iran until August 31 to halt enrichment and reprocessing activities or face possible sanctions.

Well, if anything, Iran continues to be consistent. Iran has rejected the United Nations Security Council deadline of August 31 to halt uranium enrichment.

And Iran has set August 22 as the date on which they will turn down reply to the P-5-Plus-1 proposal.

But, does Iran, the master of the Western media cycle, have nay incentive to do any more?

NOPE – especially when you get fawning interviewers like Mike Wallace.

Of Ahmadinejad, Wallace said, “He’s an impressive fellow, this guy. He really is. He’s obviously smart as hell.”

Wallace said he was surprised to find that the Iranian president was still a college professor who taught a graduate-level course.

“You’ll find him an interesting man,” he said. “I expected more of a firebrand. I don’t think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels … about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as more rational than I had expected.”

And…..

“He’s actually, in a strange way, he’s a rather attractive man, very smart, savvy, self-assured, good looking in a strange way,” Wallace said. “He’s very, very short but he’s comfortable in his own skin.”

Why Mahmoud is just one of the boys……who covets nuclear weapons.

The Mullahs and Ahmadinejad must be laughing their ASSES off at Wallace and CBS News.

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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