Now if that isn't sticking it to the US, UK, France, and Israel then I don't know what is. This is a very bold statement for Iran to make whilst it is under the cross hairs of the US military machine. Too bold? - perhaps, especially during this time of fear and hatred towards all things Muslim. I just hope that this isn't twisted into some sort of 'evidence' of a weapons program which allows the US to 'justify' harsh sanctions or even worse. I am in little doubt that Government Lawyers in both the UK and Israel are already helping the US make some sort of legal case to present to the UN security council. As I have stated previously - dangerous times are ahead............

But lets be reasonble - Iran does not have and will not have wihout significant outside help enough high-grade uranium to enrich it and produce a functional nuclear weapon. From enrichment plant to bomb there is a long way - much longer than most people imagine.

The idea that the five countries telling Iran to stop building nuclear plants of any kind, is a joke!. These five countries are responsible for causing about 99% of all the problems around the world, if anyone really poses a threat to the world, its US, Russia, UK, Germany and Israel. How many nuclear weapons do these countries have? who is the only country in the world who has used nuclear weapons against civilians, how many countries have been invaded by these countries since world war 2, its not Iran or Iraq or anyone else, its these five countries that want to dominate the world. No sovereign nation should be subjected or put up with this kind of heavy handed tactics from the anyone especially these five countries who have caused so much pain and suffering around the world.

# From Poland - Yes you are correct, but when it comes to US (and Israeli) interests I have observed that being 'reasonable' does not register with them. There are many people in the US that still think that Saddam Hussain actually had 'weapons of mass destruction' and that Osama Bin Laden still lives in a cave in Afghanistan. These are the same sought of people who voted Bush in for a second term, and who voted for Palin&McCain against Obama, and who still think the US is the 'richest' country in the world (I doubt they have even heard the term 'national debt'). This would be almost funny if some of these same people did not now have their fingers very close to, or actually on, the lauch / fire buttons of some very nasty weapons. Having read some reports from the US and Israel it would appear that many in these counries actually think that they could 'bomb Iran back to the stone age' and not suffer any concequences. I just hope that there are enough sane, sensible, and intelligent people left in the US and Israel to prevent these fools from 'talking up a war' and picking a fight with yet another middle eastern country..........

Yes this is the Iranian gamble playing out to the end, truly fascinating game of chance on this one. With Obama struggling with a troop deployment and the domestic US tired of illegal wars, he thinks he can pull it off. He is betting a win either way strategy, he is banking that either the west has no stomach for another illegal fight or that if they do they will come into the snake pit and be eaten bit by bit. Iran also knows that if they can pull it off Israel will come within their grasp, and that is one end game they would be happy with. It's Iran's call, but they are playing for high stakes, they could be miscalculating a little. The west has no level of evil that it will not sink to in order to try to maintain US control over oil and gas and the people of the middle east. They will justify anything to keep Israel in the dominant position in the middle east. So the Iranians could be miscalculating, that an intervention will be conventional. But let's see how it plays out. Iran following through on its international legal right to nuclear power is proving to be interesting and a little much for the western bankers to bare. How dare Iran challenge the masters of the universe, to pursue its legal rights, instead of being controled and frightened into submission.