Iranian arab-parast president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Thursday that Tehran could halt UN inspections and quit the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in retaliation against mounting international pressure on the country.
The threat came the day after world powers referred the crisis over Iran's disputed nuclear drive back to the Security Council -- which could impose sanctions -- after Iran failed to respond to demands it suspend work that could lead to the production of nuclear weapons.
"Up to now the Iranian people have acted within the framework of the NPT and the IAEA," the president played his pathetic 'Theocratic Nationalism', in reference to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency.
"But if they reach the conclusion that Western countries do not have goodwill and sincerity... they (the Iranian people) will revise their policy," he said in comments carried by the website of Iranian state television.