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Following are excerpts from statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which aired on the Iranian News Channel on February 20 and 24, 2008:
February 20, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: With regard to the nuclear issue, the enemy not only wanted to prevent us from producing a bomb, from producing [nuclear] fuel, from enriching uranium, and from achieving advanced technologies. Even though all these things are of great importance, and today's enemies of humanity are very anxious that the Iranian people will accomplish them one day, they are even more anxious because the Iranian people are steadfast in their nobility, in their grandeur, and in their defense of the human and divine honor and sanctity of the Iranian people.
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Very soon, this act by the Iranian people will be imitated by all the peoples. The peoples will arise, one after the other, and will drag the superpowers of arrogance off their thrones.
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Take a look at our region. They have created a filthy black germ, known as the Zionist regime, in order to set it loose on the peoples of the region, like a wild beast, and in order to use it as a pretext to impose their policy on the peoples of the region.
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They are so devoid of human qualities that in full view of billions of people, they threaten to carry out assassinations. They assassinate devout and patriotic believers, and then they hold celebrations. You saw what they did to the brave son of Lebanon ['Imad Mughniya], who stood up to the brutal Zionist invasion into the land of Lebanon, and who humiliated the Zionists.
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February 24, 2008
Their problem is that they are not yet familiar with the Iranian people. They are not yet familiar with the strength and greatness of the Iranian people. That is why they make mistakes time and again.
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We consider the [nuclear] issue a done deal. From now on, anything they do will be an attempt to get attention. Nothing important will come of it anywhere in the world. That's the kind of thing superpowers do sometimes. Let them do so. Maybe they will get somebody's attention, but the Iranian people will not pay them any attention. If they decide to keep this up, we have a response already prepared, and any country that takes action [by imposing sanctions] will see that the Iranian people will act differently toward it. They should know that we will act differently, whether it is a European country or not. If they take any action, whether by putting a freeze on finances or products, they should know that we have prepared firm action against this. We will not joke around with any of them.
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They must apologize to us. They have delayed our progress for four or five... for two and a half years. They have stopped our scientific development in important nuclear matters. They owe us. They must compensate us.
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