Source: AP News via Myway.com
This sounds like a smart plan to me: go out into the international press and threaten the very country that is just itching to attack and invade your country. Give the Warhawks a little ammunition to pump into their war-machine.
VIENNA, Austria (AP)--Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program.
But the United States and its European allies said Iran's nuclear intransigence left the world no choice but to seek Security Council action. The council could impose economic and political sanctions on Iran.
The statements were delivered to the 35-member board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is meeting to focus on Tehran's refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.
The White House dismissed the rhetoric out of Tehran.
"I think that provocative statements and actions only further isolate Iran from the rest of the world," White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters traveling with President Bush to hurricane-affected states in the Gulf Coast. "And the international community has spelled out to Iran what it needs to do."
John Bolton, America's ambassador to the United Nations, said Iran's comments showed how much of a menace it was.
Obviously, some world leaders enjoy playing with fire.
Note to Iranian leadership: look at the mess that is Iraq, keep up with your posturing, and missiles will soon rain down from your sky like the world is going to end. Your country must be sitting on natural resources that some GOP faithful wants to get their corporate hands on. So go ahead...keep threatening the guy with the big guns.
I'm pretty sure they will play your bluff and even though the attack will be unjustified, you will lose everything.
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