Apparently Obama’s diplomatic tour de force in the wake of the North Korea launch has yet to cow the mullahs into submission:
Iran criticized on Monday U.S. President Barack Obama for saying Tehran posed a threat with its nuclear program and urged Washington and other countries possessing atom weapons to dismantle their arsenals. “It seems that the repetition of the past U.S. administration’s accusations [against Iran] would be in contrast with the slogan of change [by Obama],” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told a news conference… “We, like the rest of the world community, are awaiting a world free of nuclear arms,” Qashqavi said. “Our expectation from the U.S. and others is to take serious and practical measures towards nuclear disarmament and dismantling of weapons of mass destruction,” he said.
For the record, Iran has enough material for between one and fifty nukes, they’ve surmounted the technological barriers to weaponizing it, and both the US Secretary of State and the US Director of National Intelligence don’t think that we can do anything about it. Their mastery of ballistic missile technology has translated into a new long-range rocket that they’re bragging about using against Israel.
Remember that time a few years ago when when the left eagerly latched onto the politicized NIE report and used it to prevent Bush from acting against Iran? Because Iranian nuclearization was just a feverish neocon warmongering lie? Good times.
References and previously after the jump…
References:
* Obama’s Decision To Join UN Human Rights Council Buys Zero Cooperation On North Korea [MR]
* Iran: We aren’t a nuclear threat, U.S. must dismantle own arsenal [Ha'aretz]
* Mullen: ‘Iran has enough material for bomb’ [JPost]
* Report: Iran Can Get Material to Make 50 Nukes [Fox News]
* MI chief: Iran capable of creating bomb [YNet]
* Clinton says U.S. diplomacy unlikely to end Iran nuclear program [LAT]
* US intel chief: It will be difficult to stop Iran [JPost]
* Yes, We Should Worry About Iran’s Satellite [WSJ]
* Iran test fires new long-range missile [YNet]
* US Spy Agencies: Actually, It Turns Out That Iran Is Developing Nukes (UPDATE: Obama On The NIE: “Bush Continues To Not Let Facts Get In The Way Of His Ideology”) [MR]
* WaPo: NIE Conclusions Were Engineered By Easily Identifiable, Hysterically Anti-Bush State Department Washouts [MR]
Previously:
* Iran: Not Only Are We Not Going To Talk To Obama About Nukes. We’re Not Going To Talk To Him About Iraq Either.
* Brzezinski: Israeli Campaign Against Iran Will Detonate US-Israel Relations
* The “Iran Lobby” Moves Into The White House
