Iran wants to pick a fight with Uncle Sam

[pisser]

they should know we'll give um a bloody nose!

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Despite the threat of economic sanctions, Iran has not made any move to suspend uranium enrichment activities or comply with U.N. demands to verify its nuclear program is peaceful, according to a U.N. report issued Thursday.

U.N. ambassadors are looking over the report from International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohammed ElBaradei, released on the deadline set by the Security Council for Iran to halt all of its nuclear activities or face economic sanctions.

"The report makes clear that not only has Iran not suspended uranium enrichment activities as required by [U.N.] Resolution 1696, it's accelerated," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told reporters.

"The report, short and to the point, concludes that after all these years of trying, the IAEA is still unable to confirm the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program," Bolton said.

"Now, in the language of the IAEA and the international system, that's a red flag," he continued. "There's simply no explanation for the range of behavior which we've seen over the years, other than that they're pursuing a weapons capability."

Iran has left little doubt it will defy the West and continue its nuclear program.
"They should know that the Iranian nation will not yield to pressure and will not let its rights be trampled on," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd Thursday in a televised speech in the northwestern Iranian city of Orumiyeh.

In front of his strongest supporters in one of his provincial power bases, the Iranian leader attacked what he called "intimidation" by the United Nations, which he said was led by the United States.

President Bush insisted Thursday that "there must be consequences" for Iran's defiance of demands that it stop enriching uranium. He said "the world now faces a grave threat from the radical regime in Iran."

"We must not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon," Bush told the American Legion's national convention.

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