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Cox & Forkum: Runaway

February 25, 2007 /

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Cox & Forkum: Runaway

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Iran Won’t End Nuke Program

AP: Ahmadinejad: Iran Won’t End Nuke Program

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country would proceed with its disputed nuclear program, comparing its nuclear drive to a train that has no reverse gear or brakes.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, however, said what Iran needed was “a stop button.”

Ahmadinejad also repeated his call for negotiations, saying the time for “bullying” had expired. International leaders have demanded that Iran halt uranium enrichment.

“The train of the Iranian nation is without brakes and a rear gear,” the radio quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a gathering of Islamic clerics. “We dismantled the rear gear and brakes of the train and threw them away sometime ago.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency last week reported that Iran had ignored a U.N. Security Council ultimatum to freeze its uranium enrichment program and instead had expanded the program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges.

Iran has refused to halt uranium enrichment despite United Nations Resolution 1737.

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