(AP) Iran leader: Nuke drive a train ‘without brakes’

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Iran leader: Nuke drive a train ‘without brakes’
Ahmadinejad vows to push ahead after Tehran again
ignores U.N. deadline

Associated Press
Updated: 35 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday his country
would move forward with its disputed nuclear program, comparing its
nuclear drive to a train that has no brakes.

The hard-line leader also repeated his call for negotiations, saying
the time for “bullying” had expired. International leaders have demanded
that Iran halt uranium enrichment.

“The train of the Iranian nation is without brakes and a rear gear,” the
radio quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a gathering of Islamic clerics. “We
dismantled the rear gear and brakes of the train and threw them away
sometime ago.”

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Ahmadinejad said Sunday that Western countries feel threatened by
Iran’s nuclear program because they feel their own powers are
diminishing.

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Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17327091

(Reuters)

Iran needs "stop button" on nuclear program: Rice

1 hour, 50 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice responded
to Iran's declaration that it had no "reverse gear" on its nuclear program
by saying on Sunday that what Iran needed to do was halt weapons-related
activities.

Rice said if Tehran did so, the United States was prepared to discussed
trade and political issues, and she would be willing to meet her Iranian
counterpart.

"They don't need a reverse gear. They need a stop button," Rice said on
"Fox News Sunday."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that Iran had
obtained the technology to produce nuclear fuel and its program was
now like a train "which has no brake and no reverse gear."

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070225/pl_nm/iran_nuclear_usa_dc_2

[Colobo]

1. This whole thing smells to war...

[Truthiness Inspector]

2. Very provocative language. n/t