Dec. 25, 2009 - Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end
deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap
enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United
States warned Iran
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deadline seriously.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the U.S. of
fabricating a purported Iranian secret document that appears to lay out a plan
for developing a critical component of an atomic bomb.
Ahmadinejad's remarks underscored Tehran's defiance in the nuclear standoff —
and also sought to send a message that his government has not been weakened by
the protest movement sparked by June's disputed presidential election. He spoke
a day after the latest opposition protest by tens of thousands mourning a
dissident cleric who died over the weekend.
Late Tuesday, the Web site of state-run television said
Ahmadinejad had appointed a new chief of Iran's
prestigious Art Academy, removing opposition leader Mir
Hossein Mousavi from the post.
Mousavi, a presidential challenger who alleged voting
fraud, had attended Monday's funeral procession. There was no immediate comment
from Mousavi.
President Barack Obama has set a rough deadline of the end
of this year for Iran
to respond to an offer of dialogue on the nuclear issue. Washington and its
allies are warning of new, tougher sanctions on Iran if it doesn't respond.
The U.N.-proposed deal is the centerpiece of the West's
diplomatic effort. Under the deal, Tehran
would ship most of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium abroad to be processed
into fuel rods, which would ease the West's fears that the material could be
used to produce a nuclear weapon.
Iran, which denies it seeks Air Jordan
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at the deal's terms.
The international community can give Iran "as many deadlines as they want, we
don't care," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to thousands of supporters in
the southern city of Shiraz.
Ahmadinejad dismissed the threat of sanctions, saying Iran wants
talks "under just conditions where there is mutual respect."
"We told you that we are not afraid of sanctions
against us, and we are not intimidated," he said, addressing the West.
"If Iran
wanted to make a bomb, we would be brave enough to tell you."
As the crowd cheered: "We love you, Ahmadinejad,"
the Iranian leader lashed out at Washington,
vowing Iran will stand up against
U.S. attempts to
"dominate the Middle East."
The U.S.
responded sternly. "It is a very real deadline for the international
community," said White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.
In Washington, State
Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the international community was
"united in its resolve that Iran must either answer the
questions that we have about its nuclear aspirations or face additional
pressure."
Susan Rice, the U.S.
ambassador to the United Nations, said in an interview with the Associated
Press and APTN it was "premature" to discuss possible new U.N.
sanctions against Iran, but
added that the U.S., Britain, France,
Russia, China and Germany "are considering a
wide range of alternatives."
In Paris, Foreign Minister
Bernard Kouchner said the chances of finding a diplomatic solution to the
nuclear standoff with Iran
were "never very significant" and that in the "worst case,"
France will bring up the
issue of new sanctions on Tehran.
In a separate interview with ABC News, Ahmadinejad accused the
U.S. of forging the document that appears to describe an Iranian work plan for
developing a neutron Air Jordan
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in detonating a nuclear bomb.
"They are all a fabricated bunch of papers
continuously being forged and disseminated by the American government." He
said the accusations that Iran
seeks a weapon has "turned into a repetitive and tasteless joke." The
comments were aired Monday night.
The memo was first reported in the British newspaper Times
of London. U.S.
officials have said it's unclear whether the document is real.
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