Ahmadinejad Threatens Nuclear “Traitors” And “Spies”
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (AFP) Nov 12, 2007
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday threatened to expose “traitors” who were pressuring his government over its atomic ambitions in the face of mounting calls on Iran to stop controversial nuclear work.
“If the internal elements do not stop pressures over the nuclear issue they will be exposed to the Iranian people,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying at a Tehran university.
“These are traitors and, in accordance with the vows we have taken to the nation, we will not back down and be onlookers,” he told students at the Elm-o-Sanat (Science and Industry) university.
Moderates inside Iran have attacked Ahmadinejad for his handling of Iran’s nuclear programme, with former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami warning against the “serious threats” facing the country.
According to the Fars news agency, Ahmadinejad said his government was under pressure from people who cited “the possibility of an attack and war” on Iran to stop its nuclear programme which the West suspects is cover for a weapons drive.
Without naming any individuals, Ahmadinejad said these people “met with foreigners every week and told the enemies why they were backing down and postponing (UN) resolutions.”
Iran is under two sets of UN Security Council sanctions for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, the process which makes nuclear fuel and, in highly extended form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.
Tehran denies Western suspicions, insisting that its nuclear programme is aimed solely at generating electricity for a growing population once fossil fuels run out.
Ahmadinejad has defiantly vowed to press on with the nuclear activities and ignore UN resolutions, despite the possibility of further punitive measures.
Washington, which accuses Tehran of seeking atomic weapons, has never ruled out military action against Iran over its nuclear programme, although the White House insists it wants to resolve the crisis through diplomacy.
In recent weeks, a number of Iranian politicians, both reformist and conservative, have warned of the reality of the threats against Iran despite efforts by Ahmadinejad to brush off the idea of a US attack.
Ahmadinejad also accused his critics of intervening of behalf of a suspected spy.
“Right now they have pressured the judge in a case to acquit a spy. The Iranian nation will not allow a minority to save the offenders from people’s vengeance by using their political and economic influence,” he said.
Ahmadinejad’s attack appeared to be aimed at former nuclear negotiator Hossein Moussavian who was briefly detained in May on national security-related accusations.
Moussavian, who is a close ally of Rafsanjani, was accused of leaking information to a foreign embassy. He was released on bail but the case is not closed.
“We are tolerating them due to some sensitivities but, when the nuclear question ends, we will express all issues in a student circle,” Ahmadinejad said, speaking at the university where he used to study and teach before becoming president.
Moussavian is now the deputy head of a research institute led by Hassan Rowhani, who was Iran’s top nuclear negotiator under Ahmadinejad’s reformist predecessor Khatami.
The research institute operates under the auspices of the Expediency Council, Iran’s top political arbitration body headed by Rafsanjani, who was roundly defeated by Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential election.
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A post from an Iranian student who was mocking Ahmadingawhacky:
“I have posted many funny pictures and videos of
“Dr.” Ahmadinejad in this blog. I have mocked him, I have made fun of him, and I have called him a naive person. Today, Soheil sent me a video,which if is real, is the most hilarious thing I have seen this man doing. Given that this video is not fake, which I am positive it isn’t,I officially call this man an idiot. These are the exact words of my
“president” ”
———-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cIrymEv8xI
POST-
Translation
Our youth have reached to the peak of technology in
the medical field. They have discovered the stem cells. Do you know what a stem cells is? It is the fundamental cell of any person’s body. If you find it, you can use it build all the organs of that person. You build his eye. You build his heart. You build the liver. You build the kidney. You install them and it will work exactly like it did before
[in that person’s body].
The enemy wants to tell us we can’t. We should
shout, youth! the Iranian nation! we can! A teacher called me a short while ago. [she said] “There is a girl in our school. She is 16 years old and she is in the third grade in the high school. She tells us that she has invented nuclear energy at home.” I told her to conduct a meeting at school and to research into it and know how much serious this is. They did that and replied that it seems to be quite serious.
So, I called the head of the nuclear energy institute and told him…to support her if her claim was true. So, they invited our nuclear scientists, whose average age is less than 25 years. They had a meeting and talked to her. They realized that she is telling the truth…So, they went to her house and found out that she had bought some equipment from the market, with the help of her brother, and in fact has produced nuclear energy. She is now there [in the nuclear facilities] and she is a nuclear scientist. She has a driver and a bodyguard now. This is self-confidence.
p.s. I listened again; she has “discovered” the nuclear energy.
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November 12th, 2007 at 8:39 pmThis, from a teenager
Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslims are so quick to Martydumb.. Let’s see now. . . No Jesus. No Christmas. No television. No cheerleaders. No baseball. No football. No hockey. No golf. No tailgate parties. No pork BBQ. No hot dogs. No burgers. No chocolate chip cookies. No lobster. No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks. No gumbo. No jambalaya. No, beer. Rags for clothes and towels for hats. Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he’s sick and there are no doctors. Constant wailing from the guy in the tower. More than one wife. You can’t shave. Your wives can’t shave. You can’t shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung. The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times. Your bride is picked by someone else. She smells just like your donkey. But your donkey has a better disposition. Martydumb begins to look really good
November 12th, 2007 at 8:56 pm