Iran has threatened to cut off cooperation with the United Nations nuclear watchdog after it ordered the country to prove it is not pursuing a secret nuclear weapons program. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued Iran with an October 31 deadline at a meeting in Vienna on Friday.
| Sammy got a deadline, too, not that the UN wanted to do anything with it... |
The Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, walked out of the meeting.
| "Oh, y'wanna be that way, huh? Well! This is what my back looks like!" |
In a written statement afterwards, Mr Salehi warned Iran would be forced to review its cooperation with the agency. "All I have to say is in my statement and I would advise you that all of you to get hold of one of these statements and all the questions that you may raise are answered in this statement," he said. Mr Salehi has since described the IAEA resolution as "political" and labelled the United States, Britain, Germany and France as "extremist countries".
| Every once in awhile, one of these guys makes a statement so stoopid it takes my breath away. The ventilator, please! |
"Iran cannot take part in a political process, " he told the official news agency IRNA. "The Western group in the (IAEA) board of governors, in line with their political goals, have made illegitimate, illegal and impractical requests from Iran. Even if all the claims on Iran's program's shortcomings are true, they cannot be resolved within the 45 days given to Iran."
"Well, how long'll it take?"
"'Bout 35 years..." |
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