This can't be good...

Whether this is just posturing or in fact true, it only seems to fan the flames of Bush's messianic desire to rid the world of evil:

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced that his country has succeeded in enriching uranium while insisting that Tehran has no plans to produce nuclear weapons.

He said that Iran intended to reach industrial levels of nuclear production and demanded that western countries respect his country's right to nuclear technology.

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"Enemies can't dissuade the Iranian nation from the path of progress that it has chosen," Mr Ahmadinejad was quoted by Iranian television as saying at a speech in the northeast of the country.