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AHMADINEJAD: WEST CAN'T PREVENT IRAN FROM BUILDING NUKE IF IT DECIDES TO
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 23, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted
Thursday June 23 that Iran is not seeking to build an atom bomb
but defiantly added that should it decide to do so "no one can do a
damn thing."
"When we say we do not want to make bomb it means we do not want to,"
Ahmadinejad was quoted by the state television website as saying.
"If we want to make a bomb we are not afraid of anyone and we are not
afraid to announce it, no one can do a damn thing," he said during
a ceremony inaugurating a sewage treatment plant in southern Tehran.
Iranian officials have staunchly denied Western suspicions that
Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme is masking a drive for atomic
weapons.
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani last year reiterated the denial by
quoting a previous fatwa by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who has the final say in the Islamic republic's affairs, which said
"using weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear (arms) is haram
(forbidden)."
Ahmadinejad's comments come two weeks after the chief of Iranian
atomic organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani announced plans to triple
Tehran's capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent level in a move
Washington deemed "provocative", according to AFP.
PanARMENIAN.Net
June 23, 2011
PanARMENIAN.Net - Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted
Thursday June 23 that Iran is not seeking to build an atom bomb
but defiantly added that should it decide to do so "no one can do a
damn thing."
"When we say we do not want to make bomb it means we do not want to,"
Ahmadinejad was quoted by the state television website as saying.
"If we want to make a bomb we are not afraid of anyone and we are not
afraid to announce it, no one can do a damn thing," he said during
a ceremony inaugurating a sewage treatment plant in southern Tehran.
Iranian officials have staunchly denied Western suspicions that
Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme is masking a drive for atomic
weapons.
Parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani last year reiterated the denial by
quoting a previous fatwa by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who has the final say in the Islamic republic's affairs, which said
"using weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear (arms) is haram
(forbidden)."
Ahmadinejad's comments come two weeks after the chief of Iranian
atomic organisation Fereydoon Abbasi Davani announced plans to triple
Tehran's capacity to enrich uranium to 20 percent level in a move
Washington deemed "provocative", according to AFP.