And given the UN's track record on halting Iran's nuclear program so far, why should he think otherwise, even as the August 31 deadline arrives tomorrow?
From AFP:
TEHERAN, Iran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said it was ‘unlikely’ the UN Security Council would act against Iran over its nuclear programme.
‘We have said everything in our response. I think the time to use the instrument of the Security Council has expired,’ he told reporters, referring to an Iranian answer to a Western package of incentives over its nuclear programme.
‘I see it as unlikely that they want to use it (the Security Council). Using nuclear energy is Iran’s right and we want to use it according to international law.’
The UN Security Council has given Iran an August 31 deadline to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities. Iran has insisted it has no intention of abandoning such work.
‘I think that the opportunity that Iran has given Europeans is extremely exceptional for fairly resolving all issues. Of course, that is if they are interested in justice and I hope they will be,’ said Ahmadinejad.
"The UN Security Council has given Iran an August 31 deadline to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities. Iran has insisted it has no intention of abandoning such work."
No intention of abandoning such work, indeed.
"Iran Enriching More Uranium"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/29/AR2006082901605.html
The U.N. has over the past 40 years been slowly and steadily infiltrated. In the Secretariat, in the various committees and staffs that make the whole thing run, that set agendas, that rule on who may speak and who may not, who serve as rapporteurs and write reports, and who supplement in their work the diplomats, Muslims or non-Muslim hirelings (how hard is it, after all, to rent the sympathies, and buy the votes, of all kinds of countries, and not only in sub-Saharan Africa, on which most of the suspicion falls?). While there are many things to complain of, not least the behavior of Kofi Annan and of many of his predecessors, the main problem is not one of the former Soviet bloc or some Bandung remains of the day, but rather the Arab Muslim bloc that, in turn, controls other Muslim countries, and also manages to find sympathetizers by playing, as has been done so successfully in Western Europe, on two pre-existing attitudes and conditions, the by-now related phenomena of antisemitism and anti-Americanism. And then there is always, as the final guarantee, Arab money.
Start with Kofi Annan's office. Start with Edward Mortimer, illegitimiate Edward. Google "Edward Mortimer" and "Jihad Watch" and begin by informing yourself about the man who was ecstatic over the ascendance of Ayatollah Khomeini, and who became the Director of Communications, and Chief Speech Writer, and Senior Adviser (as he also bills himself) to Kofi Annan. Start there, but don't end there.
Hugh -
I refer you to my comments
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012916.php
Almondnuts will not attack until he is sure he can produce a mushroom cloud.
Wait for North Korea to test a nuke first and then he will be sure of a pop.
I believe he might detonate a nuke in the Gulf, maybe the Strait of Hormuz which would disrupt shipping, increase oil prices and confirm to the world that Iran is now a Nuclear Power.
Iammadinthehead will drop the first nuke in that region. Let's hope it misfires and detonates on the mullahs of Iran. Even so, the combined forces of democracy and freedom (Isreal/USA/England) will drop some precision atomic explosives on top of these ragheads. There will be no world peace while muslims roam this planet. What they call religion is the ideology of the hopelessly brain-washed! One of these days the simple truth that this nomad mohammed bereft of any power created a religion so that he could ravish women and behead enemies. What a piece of garbage mo was. Unlike Jesus this man has planted many seeds of destruction for his own people. Musherooms will be good for them!