Iran Warns West May Face 'Done Deal' on Nukes if Country Is Provoked

[Nagishkaw 510]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,371281,00.html

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's powerful parliament speaker on Wednesday warned that the West could face a "done deal" if it provokes Iran, in a rare hint by an Iranian official that Tehran could build nuclear weapons if attacked.

Iran's leaders have long been adamant that the country's nuclear program is and will always be aimed only at generating electricity. Ali Larijani did not directly contradict that stance, but his veiled warning comes amid increased Iranian fears that the U.S. or its ally Israel could strike its nuclear facilities.

Earlier this month, Israel sent warplanes and other aircraft on a major exercise in the eastern Mediterranean that U.S. officials said was a message to Iran — a show of force as well as practice in the operations needed for a long-range strike mission.

Larijani, who was once Iran's top nuclear negotiator with the West, made the comments in a speech to parliament aired on state TV and radio.

He pointed to recent comments by Mohamed ElBaradei, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief, who said in an interview last week that a military strike on Iran could turn the Mideast into a "ball of fire" and "prompt Iran, even if it didn't produce a nuclear weapon today, to resort to an emergency plan to produce a nuclear weapon."

"Take Mr. ElBaradei's warnings seriously," Larijani said, addressing the West.

"Don't provoke Iran otherwise you will face a done deal that will block the path of your return to a compromise with Iran," Larijani told an open session of the parliament broadcast live on state radio Wednesday.

The phrase he used in Farsi, "amal-e anjam shodeh," means literally "an accomplished act" or "fait accompli."

Larijani also warned that a "short opportunity is left" for a deal with Iran over its nuclear program.

The West is taking a carrot and stick approach with Iran, trying to push it to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that can produce either fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material for a warhead. Top Western powers have put forward a package of economic incentives for Iran to halt enrichment, while threatening an increase in sanctions.

Iran has yet to reply to the package, insisting it will never suspend enrichment but also mentioning some common ground with its own proposals for a resolution to the standoff.

The U.S. and some of its allies accuse Iran of seeking to build a nuclear bomb. Iran has always said it will never do so — and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled it out, calling nuclear weapons un-Islamic.

Larijani is a member of the powerful Supreme National Security Council and is close is close to Khamenei. He was careful not to directly state that the country could change its intentions. His vague hint now that Iran could do so appeared aimed at signalling the possible consequences of military action and pressing the West to reach a negotiated solution.

One hard-line newspaper was more overt about the possibility, though it too stopped short of directly threatening a move to build a weapon.

The daily Kayhan said in an editorial that even if Iran's nuclear facilities are destroyed in a strike, they could be rebuilt "within a short period of time, but with the difference that it (a military strike) may prompt a fundamental reconsideration in intentions."

Meanwhile, a top commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday warned that an attack on Iran would draw the U.S. into "a new tragedy."

"If you want to move towards Iran, make sure you will bring artificial legs and walking sticks because you will not have any legs to return on should you come," the television quoted Mohammad Hejazi, a top Guards figure, as saying.

Iran has spread its nuclear facilities over various parts of the large country and has built key portions underground to protect if from possible Israeli or American airstrikes.

In 1981, Israeli jets bombed Iraq's Osirak nuclear facility in an attempt to end then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's nuclear program. Last September, Israel bombed a facility in Syria that U.S. officials have said was a nuclear reactor being constructed with North Korean assistance, a claim denied by Damascus and Pyongyang.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

What could they possibly do to us? They're nuclear program is for peaceful power generation.

[Nagishkaw 510]

What could they possibly do to us? They're nuclear program is for peaceful power generation.

[Ban Hammer 14,269]

What could they possibly do to us? They're nuclear program is for peaceful power generation.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Remember your history:

August 2001: Saddam warns West on Iraq flights "If you care that your pilots and your aircraft are not harmed by the weapons of the high-spirited freedom fighters of great Iraq, then take your aircraft and battleships and go home."

And we learned just how superior and destructive a power Saddam's military was...

[HAL 9000 96]

Yep. That's pretty much definite proof. Bomb 'em now!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

I think I just made a poopy in my pants!

[Scott & Lai 12]

I think I just made a poopy in my pants!

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[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

So here's the deal. The leader of Iran hasn't been shown to be deterable and his theats of war are not only esclatory he's in a position of being in power in a country that had the largest mobilized revolution in the world based on a negative coalition forming against the UK & US. Not only does this country have a venemous history with us it is disatisfied and moving into the postion of becoming a challanger with capability to do something about it in the near future. They are a threat and their brand of fundementalist Islam is not one I want spread across the Middle East North Africa nor the rest of the world like a black plauge. It would catapult the Western world backwards by 200 years with Human Rights and Women and Children's Rights.

If I was a neo-con I would take up Isreals proposition to attack Iran already then let the foregin policy and war and world politics landslide into the next elected representatives laps so they're able to stay in the Iraq War and establish a mature democracy. Hell I might even bargain with Iraq to get back that slice of land that the Iran & Iraq war started over.

The other side of the coin: I wouldn't make any moves and coast on into the next election riding the wave of leaving the current war with the election of the next President and allowing the children and grandchild to deal with the mess uber political mess down the road say like 20 yrs.

[HAL 9000 96]

That settles it even more... but instead of bombing them 200 years back... we can form the VJ Commando Squad to take the nutjob out.

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

That settles it even more... but instead of bombing them 200 years back... we can form the VJ Commando Squad to take the nutjob out.

And then who would take over the nutjobs job? According to the Western Model it would be a more coercive leader then the current one. Maybe Nostradamus's prediction of the man in the blue turban coming to power as a leader of the third world war and anti-christ will come true stepping into Ahmadinejad's vacancy?

[HAL 9000 96]

Don't know about that. Notice my satire in the previous post.

[Dan J 277]

That settles it even more... but instead of bombing them 200 years back... we can form the VJ Commando Squad to take the nutjob out.

We have a history of removing "democratically" elected leaders and replacing them with a totalitarianist that is more sympathetic to our goals. So we need to take out the present of Iran and replace him with Rush or Bill O'Rielly.

[HAL 9000 96]

That settles it even more... but instead of bombing them 200 years back... we can form the VJ Commando Squad to take the nutjob out.

We have a history of removing "democratically" elected leaders and replacing them with a totalitarianist that is more sympathetic to our goals. So we need to take out the present of Iran and replace him with Rush or Bill O'Rielly.

But wouldn't that be just as nutty as leaving the present ape in power?

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

That settles it even more... but instead of bombing them 200 years back... we can form the VJ Commando Squad to take the nutjob out.

We have a history of removing "democratically" elected leaders and replacing them with a totalitarianist that is more sympathetic to our goals. So we need to take out the present of Iran and replace him with Rush or Bill O'Rielly.

But wouldn't that be just as nutty as leaving the present ape in power?