Ahmadinejad also while referring to his letter to President Bush said, this letter had been intended to show the righteous path, due to the fact that many of the world's problems had originated from forgetting the divine culture.
"Of course they are free to accept the message of this letter or to discard it, but history is full of the examples of those who have been eradicated through rejecting the divine call."
Again and again, Ahmadinejad bases his temper-tantrumesque rants on the assertion that Iran is only seeking nuclear power for peaceful, civilian applications as it is entitled to do under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. The problem he continually tries to dodge through name calling and bravado is that there is not only the suspicion that Iran is working on nuclear weapons, but there is also some damning evidence to that end.
Inspectors recently confirmed Iran's claims of having enriched very small quantities of uranium to low levels, and they can continue to monitor those narrow steps. But at Natanz and elsewhere, they have lost their window into the future - for instance, into the factories where Iran has claimed it will build tens of thousands of centrifuges, machines that spin incredibly quickly to enrich, or concentrate, uranium into fuel. Low-enriched uranium can fuel reactors; highly enriched uranium can power bombs.
So, too, they cannot investigate Iran's boasts that it is forging ahead with research on a more advanced centrifuge that could accelerate its efforts to make atomic fuel.
The Iranians have also stopped cooperating with investigations into the possible existence of clandestine work on uranium and plutonium, an alternate bomb fuel. Just last week, diplomats revealed an inquiry into the origin of traces of highly enriched uranium linked to a razed military research base at Lavizan, outside Tehran.
Little by little, the agency pieced together a pattern of deception dating to 1985, proving that Iran had done uranium and plutonium work that could help fuel a bomb.
Over nearly three years of inspections, IAEA reports documented dozens of surprises, including:
Iran was found to have used lasers to purify uranium starting in 1991 and in 2000 established a pilot plant for laser enrichment.
Significant research was uncovered on polonium 210, a rare element that can help trigger an atom bomb.
Many ties emerged to the black market of A.Q. Khan, the Pakistani atomic pioneer who supplied Iran with its centrifuge designs. Inspectors found one Khan document offering to help shape uranium metal into "hemispherical forms" needed for bomb cores.
Even on their best behavior, the Iranians could delay and stonewall. They are still refusing to turn over an important Khan document that inspectors have sought for more than two years.
Sometimes, the excuses bordered on the comical. Keys to a centrifuge hall at the Kalaye Electric Company were lost. The Lavizan-Shian military physics research base on the outskirts of Tehran, recently linked to the discovery of highly enriched uranium, was razed because City Hall said it needed the land for a park.
In a sense, Iran's candor backfired. It always came up with detailed explanations for its omissions, discrepancies and hidden programs. But each new disclosure raised new doubts and demands for better information.
More: International Herald-Tribune
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