Iran not afraid of uproar over nuclear moves: Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would forge ahead with its nuclear programmes and was not afraid of the uproar it had caused in the West. 'The Iranian government and nation has no fear of the Western ballyhoo and will continue its nuclear programmes with decisiveness and wisdom,' Ahmadinejad said in a speech in Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

Are you sure you're speaking for all of Iran? I mean, maybe YOU'RE not scared to get a bunkerbuster dropped on your head but I have a feeling some other members of the community might be a bit concerned. And what the fuck is ballyhoo? Who talks like that?

He said that the two-and-half-year suspension of the research programme by the previous government of President Mohammad Khatami was made with no rational reason.

I guess being bombed by about ten countries isn't a rational reason to an irrational person.

'The West should now act wisely and not do anything which they themselves would later regret,' Iranian ex-president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said.

What? You mean like allow Iran to go nuclear?