Iran News Round Up

Larijani: “Iran’s current nuclear status is an achievement that is the direct result of the Supreme Leader’s prudence.”

Larijani praises new IAEA flexibility toward Tehran’s violations.
“Even if the UN threatens Iran with issuance of more sanctions, the country will not stop its uranium enrichment.”—Larijani.

Iraqi President Talabani to visit Tehran, call for U.S.-Iran talks at higher level.

“The occupiers and cheated agents should realize that resorting to such wretched acts has led to widespread hatred of the Islamic world against them.”
On Salman Rushdie: “The old, and decrepit British colonialism that claims to be the standard bearer of the human rights is now awarding a wretched bankrupt fellow that has insulted the sanctities of 1.5 billion Muslims… Is that the meaning of the human rights and the Western civilization of yours…? The old and feeble British government had better realize now that it is no longer an empire, but an ear-ringed slave of the Americans.”
“Bush should also know that the Iranian nation has all options on the table to confront the United States, and one of these options is slapping the US hard in the mouth.”

Ahmadinejad to U.S. ally Azerbaijan: Iranian power is in “the interest of all peoples in the region.”
Moscow says it sees no Iranian missile threat.