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...your interview with Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [Sept. 26]: In discussing the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran more than 25 years ago, he said, "Sometimes, in order to gain your rights, you have to do certain things." That sounds as if he would condone any type of behavior if it achieved political goals. But then, in answer to a question about Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's call for violence against Shi'ites in Iraq, Ahmadinejad said, "Any decision that leads to the killing of innocents is something that we reject." Comparing Ahmadinejad's answer about rejecting...
...inalienable right" under the NPT to enrich its own uranium for reactor fuel - enrichment capability is of paramount concern to the West, because it would give Iran the technical means to create weapons-grade nuclear material. That stance hardened with the election of conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who last week insisted that Iran would never give up the "right" to enrich uranium and scoffed at Western concerns that Iran was building a bomb...
Just days after delivering a vitriolic speech to the United Nations General Assembly—in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared Iran’s inalienable right to enrich uranium and develop nuclear power—the hard-line president gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should...
...arrange tte--ttes with the Presidents of Russia and Turkey. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also pointedly left Assad out of a meeting with European and other Middle Eastern leaders. (The only one willing to meet with him, the sources say, was Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) Assad's emerging status as a political leper comes amid an intensifying U.S. campaign against Syria--if not to oust the regime, then to muscle it into better behavior...
Iran's new President flew to New York City last week, where George W. Bush was lobbying the United Nations to stop Tehran's uranium-enrichment program. From his heavily guarded hotel suite, Ahmadinejad, a blacksmith's son who still drives his 1977 white Peugeot on occasion, spoke with TIME's Adam Zagorin about his nuclear frustrations, the Iraqi insurgency and his wife's home cooking...