Iran Rejects What It Calls Rice's 'Threats'

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Iran Rejects What It Calls Rice's 'Threats'


TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it was impervious to remarks by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who accused Tehran's "unelected mullahs" of a dismal human rights record and covering up efforts to build a nuclear bomb.

In remarks on Thursday, Rice made clear Washington was unwilling to become involved in European negotiations, which resume on Tuesday, to broker a deal that would offer economic incentives to Iran if it agreed to drop nuclear fuel production.

"Such threats will not have much effect on the Islamic Republic and we will continue our path of sovereignty, independence and saying no to hegemony," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told a news conference.

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http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050206/2005-02-06T132410Z_01_L06611780_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAN-USA-RICE-DC.html

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1. Attack by Israel on Iran

will probably = a vaporized Tel Aviv. Who here thinks that the Iranians would be as open about their nuclear capability as they have been, if they didn't already have the capability of retaliation?

IMO, it's a huge tactical blunder for Israel and the neocons to assume Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver, unless they really want a nuclear exchange to take place.

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