Iran's Ahmadinejad Claims Iran Nuke Power Increased "Ten Fold"

After watching the lame international reaction to North Korea's nuclear test can anyone be surprised by this?

Associated Press
October 23, 2006
In Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country's nuclear capability has increased tenfold despite Western pressure to roll back its atomic program, which Iran insists is peaceful.

"The enemies, resorting to propaganda, want to block us from achieving (nuclear technology)," Ahmadinejad told a crowd on the southern outskirts of Tehran. "But they should know that today, the capability of our nation has multiplied tenfold over the same period last year."

Mad Ahmadinejad is thubming his nose at the world community as the toothless UN Security Council dithers over what steps to take next after Iran defied their order to stop uranium enrichment.

The statement above came three days after Mad Ahmadinejad called the U.N. Security Council and all its decisions "illegitimate."

The Significance of October 23rd

All this takes on even greater significance when Gazing at the Flag reminded Mike's America readers that today is the 23rd anniversary of the October 23, 1983 attack by a Hezbollah suicide bomber on the barracks in Beirut, Lebanon where 241 US Marines add servicemen on a peacekeeping mission were killed.

Iran was behind the attack which killed those 241 Americans.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has an excellent audio-visual presentation called: "The Beirut Story."

The servicemen who died were among the first casualties in the long war with Iran that started when "students" seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran November 4, 1979. Thank You Jimmy Carter.