Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad to Publish Big 6 Offer to Iran

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the tomb of Iran’s late leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stuck to insistence on Iran’s right to a pursue a nuclear program.

Washington Post: Iran to Make Offer by Six Powers Public

Leader Protests U.S. Tone in Nuclear Dispute but Hints at Breakthrough

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Iran would publish details of the package of incentives and possible penalties prepared by the United States and five other major powers aimed at halting Iran’s nuclear program.

In a speech in which he warned Iran’s critics against “threats and intimidation,” Ahmadinejad seemed to sweep aside a request by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to keep the process confidential. Western diplomats had said they were trying to avoid the appearance of threatening Iran by keeping the terms of the package as private as possible, especially the specific penalties Iran might face if it continues to enrich uranium.

“We will record the talks and we will publish them at the appropriate time, so our people will be informed about the details,” Ahmadinejad said in his first speech since the package was agreed upon by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany.

Addressing a crowd of government loyalists at the tomb of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s theocratic state, Ahmadinejad said Iran would not prejudge the offer from the United States and the other countries. But he reiterated Iran’s refusal to cease enriching uranium as a condition for formal negotiations, saying, “The Iranian nation’s right to nuclear technology and power is legal and definite, and we will not talk about these issues.”

And do you REALLY believe Admadinejad and the Mullahs will share any offer with the Iranian people?

The rhetoric is softening because the Iranians realize they have been “trapped” in a diplomatic stalemate by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.

There may be an agreement but TRUST BUT VERIFY.

Stay tuned…..

Captain Ed has Ahmadinejad: I’ve Got A SecretÂ

As I have written before — that’s exactly what Ahmadinejad wants. He is neither rational nor irrational, but non-rational. His messianic strain of Shi’ism drives him to believe in a world catastrophe in which the Twelfth Imam will arise and take control of the entire world. Everything Ahmadinejad does is completely understandable in this context. His efforts to derive nuclear material for a bomb is the most public of his efforts to create explosions of every kind, and to put Iran in the center of the maelstrom. He’s planning for Islam’s transcendancy, not in a strictly corporeal sense but in a spiritual sense as well.

In poker terms, this man is all in for the pot. And it has become increasingly clear that he isn’t bluffing for the final hand.

Flap agrees and ultimately it will be the United States and Israel who will have to deal with the maniac Ahmadinejad, the Mullahs and his nuclear program.Â And it looks like President Bush has decided that it will be his administration that will have to deal with Iran – no punting to the next President.