"Going off the rails on a Crazy Train" in Tehran. From AFP:
TEHERAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday defied Western threats to impose more sanctions over Iran’s contested nuclear programme, comparing its atomic drive to a ‘train with no brakes’.
Ahmadinejad’s declaration came a day before the UN Security Council’s five permanent members plus Germany are to meet to discuss more possible punitive measures against Teheran.
‘Iran has reached the technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran’s movement on this path is like a train on a one-way track with no room for stopping, reverse gear or braking,’ the president told a gathering of religious leaders.
‘A while ago, we threw away the reverse gear and the brakes of the train and we announced to them that this Iranian train has no reverse gear or braking,’ the ISNA and Fars news agencies quoted him as saying.
The UN Security Council in December imposed limited sanctions against Teheran over its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons.
A report by the UN atomic watchdog has confirmed that Iran is still continuing with uranium enrichment work in defiance of the UN Security Council, opening the way towards possible further sanctions.
The United States has never ruled out the prospect of military action to halt Iran’s nuclear programme and Vice President Dick Cheney reignited such speculation by saying that ‘all options are still on the table.’
The United States and Israel accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons. Teheran denies the charges, insisting its atomic programme is peaceful in nature.
Hmm. A Nuclear Program of Peace?
‘We have prepared ourselves for any situation, even if war happens,’ Deputy Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mohammadi told the ISNA news agency
He added that Iran was prepared for talks with the United States but without preconditions. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has insisted she would only hold talks if Teheran first agreed to a suspension of enrichment.
‘We have had unofficial meetings with Americans over Afghanistan and Iraq, but they say first Iran should accept US conditions and then the talks take place,’ Mohammadi said.
Ahmadinejad shrugged off the impact of a resolution against Iran, saying such a move would neither hurt the Islamic republic economically and nor affect the progress of the nuclear programme.
‘They think they can hurt us economically. Since they have threatened us and issued a resolution against us we have had record contracts. They cannot do anything,’ Ahmadinejad said.
Huh?
‘Our revolution is going fast towards the summit like a bulldozer. The enemies think they can stop this bulldozer by throwing a few pebbles at it. They then magnify their small pebbles 500 times in psychological warfare’
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In another move that could increase tensions, Iran said on Sunday it had successfully launched its first rocket into space in a possible first step to launching its own satellites.
This must be the "peace train" Yusuf Islam sang about years ago. Now we all get to sit back and watch it go over a cliff, taking mad engineer A-Nut along for the ride.
Going off the rails on a Crazy Train, indeed.
There should be an Ozzy Osborne backed video of this on YouTube.
In more ways than a sane person could imagine . . .see MEMRI for video clip labeled:
scroll down to find the image of Ahmadinejad, standing behind a floral display, waving at the crowd - and select video clip or downloadtranscript
Of course, Iran's nuclear ambitions are for peaceful purposes //. . . PEACE, the variety observed in a cemetary.
train with no brakes … how about … conductor with no brains
about time for the passengers to revolt
Hmm. A Nuclear Program of Peace?
We have to remember Islam has a very different definition of Peace than the rest of the world. It's not translatable and out context and out of control and without brakes.
Round up the usual excuses (suspects).
Of course the are going to use it for lights, it gets dark down there in that well.
And they are going to illuminate those nasty Jews in Israel right out of existence and off the map.
"conductor with no brains"
Ha Ha Ha -- right on!
Darn! I meant "brake" the train of course!
Posted by: americaningermany at February 26, 2007 02:33 PM
Nah, "breaking" that train is a better idea.
Have no fear. Condeleeza Rice was Fox News last night discussing this. She has said in crystal clear terms that she does not need a reverse gear. She is instead looking for a stop button so that we can begin dicsussions. And she briefed us on how good the Iranian people are. They are a proud people from a proud culture.
I've got a new saying.
"And what does that have to do with the price of tomatoes in Iran?"
Marisol wrote":
"Going off the rails on a Crazy Train" in Tehran.
That was quite apropos, Marisiol "metalhead" Seibold. Thanks for that.
There is no downside to bombing Iranian nuclear facilities. The elimination of the nuclear threat would be an immediate benefit.
The bigger benefit would be Iran’s response. Ahmedinejad has threatened to unleash tens of thousands of suicide bombers and take out strategic facilities in the US. Its probably 90% bluff, but we’d still get stung by our own citizens. Its good to get these things out in the open. It facilitates open discussion.
One of the further advantages of some directed bombing of Iran production facilities, is that, if the Iran govt. goes ballistic, we can off a few mullahs.
We will always grieve at the loss of a few Iranian mullahs, a few Saudi imams, but hell, we'll get over it.
A while ago, we threw away the reverse gear and the brakes of the train and we announced to them that this Iranian train has no reverse gear or braking
Statements like this show the regime to be exactly the kind of government that should not have access to nuclear weapons or reactors for that matter. If they throw caution to the wind and rush headlong regardless of safety concerns and deliberate thought... well, then the nuclear program will have incidents of negligence and/or cover-ups should something go wrong.
Even if the regime were only pursuing nuclear technology for electricity generation... the idea that the leaders would pursue something 'without brakes' sounds damning.
I believe junior mahdi ahmadinejad will find that lever next to him marked JDAM is the bunker buster brake he is about to introduce himself to.
"Russian Railroads president Gennady Fadeyev offered Iranian Railways president Mohammed Saeed Nejad a design under which an Astara-Kazvin railroad would be built in Iran for a price of $177 million.
Russian engineers have started work on that stretch, he said.
A consortium of Russian, Iranian and Azerbaijani organizations now has to be set up, Fadeyev said.
"We know for sure that the Azerbaijanis are interested in this project," he said."
.......this rail line goes from Astara Azerbaijan to Kazvin Iran.....care to guess what is transported on a Russian built rail line?....
Russian tomatos?
you say 'помидор'
I say 'tomato'
Let's call the whole thing off.
Putin: "Ислам - ебанный, но мы поддерживаем "Смерть Америке"
No brakes? No reverse? Is this a common theme now, or what?
A train doesn't have to have brakes or reverse to stop.They tend to stop when the track runs out.It can get rather messy when this happens.
on another note D.J Dar al- Harb would like to spin another tune in the direction of the 'Enlightened',the 'heroes' and 'lions'.
while crazy train by ozzy was a very good song i am going to stick with my fav. Metallica.
Crank it up!
" Holier than thou " by Metallica
No more!
the crap rolls out of your mouth again
haven't changed your brain is still gelatin
little whispers circle around your head
why don't you worry about yourself instead
who are you?where you been?where ya from?
gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue
you lie so much you believe yourself
judge not lest ye be judged yourself
holier than thou
you are
holier than thou
you are
you know not
before you judge me take a look at you
can't you find something better to do
point the finger,slow to understand
arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand
it's not who you are it's who you know
others lives are the basis of your own
burn your bridges burn them back with wealth
judge not lest ye be judged yourself
holier than thou
you are
holier than thou
you are
you know not!
I don't know what it is about this evening... but I keep picturing Charlton Heston riding bareback along the beach with his lovely (but brainless) Nova as his companion. As they reach the remains of the Statue of Liberty... it is then that all the pieces of the puzzle come together for Heston.... it is then, and only then, that Heston realizes that Dr. Zeus is a direct descendant of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!!
MAD-IN-THE-HEAD RIDES THE LIGHTNING TO OBLIVION
It's definitely fun to mock and ridicule Mad-In-The-Head for his continuous supply of asinine lunatic comments. But the truth is...that guy is SCARY.
We must never allow that Hitler to develop nuclear bombs! He obviously wants a war. In his warped mind maybe he thinks the Mahdi will save Islam or something. I'd rather we went to war with Iran BEFORE they get nukes, not after.