On Ahmadinejad’s pledge to ignore Obama’s deadlines until the U.S. totally disarms:

The Iranian leadership reacts, as we saw there, with utter contempt for our deadlines, and the presidential spokesman then responds with a fecklessness and a fatuousness which is embarrassing.
Look. It is not just that we have lost a year with this pursuit of engagement with a regime that has no intention — and has repeated it over and over — of giving up its nukes. Absolutely none. The sanctions idea that was negotiated with the Chinese and Russians is a sideshow and a farce.
It’s not just that we lost a year — we lost this year. This was a unique year in the history of Iran. A revolution was occurring in the middle of the streets … It was not our doing — a spontaneous revolution. It holds out the only hope of giving us nuclear safety in that region.
We have tens of thousands of anti-regime demonstrators in the street who are not asking for a new election, who are asking for a removal of the regime — [demanding] revolution, shouting slogans about the dictatorship, mourning the death of an ayatollah who issued a fatwa against the acquisition of nukes.
This is our hope for achieving a solution not only on the nuclear issue but [on] Iran’s assistance to insurgents who are killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All of this is at stake, and this administration for this year — this revolutionary year in Iran — has been aloof, has not lent its support [to the demonstrators], has bolstered the legitimacy of a regime which is oppressing its people and pursuing nukes to the point where there is graffiti in the streets of Iran which says “Obama, Obama, are you with us or with our oppressors?”
It is a disgrace that graffiti like that should appear anywhere in the world. . . .
We will not effectuate a revolution. However, we are actively working against it — conferring legitimacy on a regime which has none internally. But by engaging with them, we are bolstering the legitimacy and strength of the regime.
And secondly, dissidents need to hear that the world outside supports them. Soviet dissidents had said that [about outside support]. And Reagan gave it. Obama is not.