(NEWS) Iran To Disclose Documents On Israel's Nuclear Program

"Iran will soon release documents on Israel’s nuclear program, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili announced on Monday.

'The hegemonistic powers have created a brouhaha over Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities to divert the world’s attention from major international issues, such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons by the world powers,' Jalili added.



'In the near future, we will disclose some documents about the proliferation of nuclear weapons by the United States and the Zionist regime, and we will follow up the matter,' the SNSC secretary said.

According to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the proliferation of nuclear weapons should be prevented, and the key question is who has provided the Zionist regime with enriched uranium, Jalili stated.

Iran has documents that show how the U.S. facilitated Israel’s nuclear weapons program, he added.

He went on to say that Iran will defend its nuclear rights as well as the rights of all independent countries and NPT signatories.

Israel, which is believed to possess over 200 nuclear warheads, has refused repeated calls to join the NPT over the years and has also refused to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities.



At the annual meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna on September 24, Arab member states proposed the Israeli Nuclear Capabilities Resolution, which calls on Israel to join the NPT.

Of the nations present at the meeting, 51 voted against the resolution, 46 voted for it, and 23 abstained, and the resolution was rejected.

However, Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, welcomed the Arab-sponsored resolution on September 28, saying the resolution opened a new chapter in the global efforts to deal with the issue of Israel’s nuclear capabilities.

The significance of the resolution is that it broke 20 years of inaction about Israel’s nuclear capabilities, and efforts will continue until Israel brings its nuclear activities under the supervision of the IAEA, he added." (source)

(NEWS) Iran Will Stand Beside Any Country Threatened In Region

"TEHRAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran will stand beside any country in the region that is threatened.

'Iran will stand on the side of any country in the region which comes under pressure or is threatened,' Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Arabic satellite television network Al Jazeera aired on Sunday.

He also said he doesn’t think the threats by the United States and Israel to attack Iran are 'serious'.

'Israel does not have the courage to do it… I do not think the threat is serious.'



Ahmadinejad also stated that Israel is 'too weak' to attack the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian president said that any military adventure by the Zionist regime targeting Iran would receive a 'crushing' response that would make Israel regret the decision.

He went on to say that Persian Gulf states are 'too smart' to allow the U.S. to use bases on their territory for a strike on Iran.

'We regard the Persian Gulf countries as brothers and friends. They are smarter than that.'

In the interview, the president also said he does not fear an attack by the U.S. because it could not even defeat a small army in Iraq.

'There are no logical reasons for the United States to carry out such an act,' President Ahmadinejad told Al Jazeera.

'Do you believe an army that has been defeated by a small army in Iraq can enter into a war with a large and well trained army like the Iranian army?' he asked, referring to the insurgents in Iraq.

Iran will only 'look to the views of wise people' in the U.S. and not to those whose minds are obsessed with 'hatred and animosity', the president said when asked about former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton’s remarks, which had apparently encouraged Israel to attack the Bushehr plant before its start-up.

Washington has no real motive to attack Iran and would not benefit from hostilities, he added.

'The friendship of Iran is much better than its hostility,' he said.

He went on to say that Iran is working to produce nuclear fuel independently 'because receiving it from an outside source is conditioned on diplomatic criteria.'

To prevent Iran from using the Bushehr reactor to produce plutonium, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency and Russia, which built the power plant, are making sure Iran returns the fuel rods it receives after they are spent.

'There is a difference between those who produce and those who buy. We must make sure our nuclear power plant continues to operate. We do not trust the West, despite our good relations with Russia,' Ahmadinejad said.

'We need 20 power plants like the one in Bushehr,' he added." (source)