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Iran Nuclear Watch Briefing: April 26, 2006 Morning

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed that Iran will ignore any UN Security Council demands to halt its disputed nuclear programme.

AFP: Iran to ignore Security Council demands to halt nuclear drive

Iran will ignore any UN Security Council demands to halt its disputed nuclear programme, hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed.

“We won’t back down one iota on our lawful and inalienable rights,” the president was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.

“If international institutions respect our legitimate rights, we will respect their decisions. However, we will not regard these decisions as valid if they are intended to deny us our rights,” he said.

“We hope they will fulfil their duty lawfully so that the Islamic republic will not need to reconsider its relations with them.”

According to Ahmadinejad, the dispute served as a “trial for international bodies to prove whether they are defending the rights of nations or whether they are acting as puppets in the hands of some bullying powers”.

The rest of the world, he added, must “accept Iran as a nuclear country, which is an undeniable fact.”

“The few countries opposed to us … want to make us give concessions through psychological warfare and propaganda,” he was quoted as saying.

The Sunday London Times: Iran’s president recruits terror master 

Plot for revenge attacks on West 

IRAN’S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington.

US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.

Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for his role in a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and murder of one of its passengers, a US navy diver.

Now in his mid-forties, Mugniyeh is reported to have travelled with Ahmadinejad in January this year from Tehran to Damascus, where the Iranian president met leaders of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas.

The meeting has been dubbed a “terror summit” because of the presence of so many groups behind attacks on Israel, which Ahmadinejad has threatened to wipe from the map.

Jane’s Intelligence Review cited “reports in recent weeks” of Mugniyeh’s presence alongside the president.

Head of head of Iran ‘s nuclear energy program Gholamreza Aghazadeh speaks to journalists in Bushehr, Iran in this February 26, 2006 file photo. He headed to 11th-hour talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency on April 26 but the move looked too late to decisively alter an imminent IAEA report to the U.N. Security Council .

AFP: Last-ditch talks between Iran and UN nuclear agency

The head of Iran’s nuclear agency, Vice President Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, was to hold last-ditch talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, two days before a UN deadline for Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment.

However hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated in Tehran earlier Wednesday that Iran would ignore any UN Security Council demands to halt its disputed nuclear program.

“We won’t back down one iota on our lawful and inalienable rights,” the president was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.

The Security Council set on March 29 a non-binding, 30-day deadline for Iran to honor the watchdog.

ASSociated Press: Iranian Leader Warns U.S. Against Attack

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that if the United States attacks Iran, U.S. interests around the world would be harmed, state-run Tehran television reported.

Speaking to laborers on the occasion of the International Laborers Day, Khamenei said U.S. officials have been using threatening language against Iran for the past 27 years, but the Iranian nation and officials do not care about the threats.

“The Iranian nation and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody,” the television quoted Khamenei as saying.

But he added: “The Americans should know that if they invade Iran, their interests around the world would be harmed. Iran will respond double-fold to any attack.”

More BLOVIATIONS from the Mullahs and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but SO WHAT! Iran will not willingly abandon their quest for nuclear weapons and the United States/Israel WILL deny them.

Look for a NEGATIVE IAEA report being leaked later today.

Stay tuned…….

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