Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates - December 23, 2009

Iran: On Ground Updates
As the White House Warns Iran to Meet Nuclear Deadline -- Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Says “Who are they to set us a deadline?”... “We set them a deadline...”
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
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* VOANews.com had the following report posted up on their website Tuesday evening and it starts off like this... U.S. officials say time is running out for Iran to accept a deal designed to ease concern about its nuclear ambitions, and there are strong signs Tehran may let the end-of-year deadline slip by. The White House is warning of real consequences if Iran refuses to comply... Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, in effect, dismissed the year-end deadline. He says the United States is in no position to set deadlines. In remarks Tuesday in the southern city of Shiraz, he said American officials must "change their attitude."...
Read the full report at link below...
White House Warns Iran to Meet Nuclear Deal Deadline
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* Reuters.com had this report Tuesday evening... If Iran misses the deadline for agreeing to ship most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor, Washington has made clear it intends to pursue harsher sanctions against Iran in the United Nations... "Who are they to set us a deadline?" Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech in the southern city of Shiraz... "We set them a deadline that if they do not correct their attitude and behavior and literature we will demand from them the Iranian nation's historic rights," the hardline president told the crowd, without elaborating...
Read this report in full at link below...
Iran's Ahmadinejad dismisses West's year-end deadline
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* TehranTimes.com has this report up on their website this Wednesday evening and it starts off like this... Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday described the Islamic Republic of Iran as the most important country in the Middle East, the most sensitive and crucial region in the world... “Today all politicians and all people who want to have a say in the world need the Iranian nation,” Ahmadinejad said, addressing a gathering of Iranian officials in the southern province of Fars...
Read the rest of Ahmadinejad’s crap at link below...
Ahmadinejad: Iran is most important country in Mideast
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* Reuters.com brings us the following report... The U.S. President had been a disappointment to the world, Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, [a full transcript can be found at the link posted on its website... along with the entire video of the interview.]... He once again dismissed a year-end deadline on a U.N.-drafted fuel deal, saying it was "meaningless." The deal requires Iran to ship most of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor... The United States has made it clear it intends to pursue harsher sanctions against Iran in the United Nations if Iran fails to meet the deadline...

Read the rest of this report at link below...
Iran's Ahmadinejad mocks Obama, "TV series" nuke talks

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