Smashing Sanctions Against a Wall

The threats keep coming from Iran.

Sunday's installment:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP)
-- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he would not hesitate to reconsider NPT (Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty) membership, speaking as Washington and its allies pressed for a U.N. Security Council vote to suspend Tehran's uranium enrichment program.

...Ahmadinejad restated his readiness to jettison treaty membership.

"If a signature on an international treaty causes the rights of a nation be violated, that nation will reconsider its decision and that treaty will be invalid," he told the state news agency.

He called threats of sanctions "meaningless" and vowed to "smash their (U.S.-backed) illegitimate resolutions against a wall."

Ahmadinejad seems to be emulating Kim Jong Il.

I wonder if he took his shoe off, Khrushchev-style, and slammed it on the table when he made his remarks.

Here's the spin from the Islamic Republic News Agency:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Sunday that if international treaties failed to secure the legitimate rights of all nations, they would become invalid.

His remarks came during an address to a gathering of Basij (volunteer forces) commanders and officials.

If signing an international treaty (in reference to the NPT) led to the violation of a nation's rights, "then that nation would revise its decision and the treaty would become invalid," said the president.

He reiterated that Iranians have repeatedly announced that they favor peace and tranquility for the whole world and that their (nuclear) progress is not a threat to any nation."

What a load! This is a flat out lie.

Ahmadinejad does not favor peace for the whole world, unless he doesn't include Israel in his definition of "the whole world."

Are these the statements of a man working for peace and tranquility?

"If anyone shows aggression to the Iranian nation’s rights, Iran will wipe the dark stain of regret on their foreheads."

"We say that this fake regime (Israel) cannot not logically continue to live."

IRNA conveniently ignores these comments.

It's pure propaganda.

..."Enemies believe that getting their illegitimate decisions approved by the UNSC will give them legitimacy," said the president, adding that the global arrogance was creating tensions and meddling in the internal affairs of other countries, Muslim states in particular.

"Global arrogance"?

Don't the Dems and the lib media elite like to use that same term when referring to the Bush Administration's foreign policy?

"They (enemies) do not like to see the Islamic world make progress and attain development," Ahmadinejad said, stressing that all regional and international relations have quickly changed shortly after Iran announced that it has completed the nuclear fuel cycle.

Now that Iranian nation has achieved modern technologies, "it is capable of becoming an unquestionable world power very soon," said the president.

Does a nation become "an unquestionable world power" because it has a nuclear power plant?

He's not talking about technological advances for peaceful purposes.

It concerns me that Ahmadinejad is talking so confidently and indicating that Iran will consider any UN resolutions against the country to be illegitimate.

I don't trust Iran, and I don't trust Russia and China.