Rumsfeld: Iran is a terrorist nation

New Evidence Against Iran -- findings of uranium enrichment at a military site increases the pressure

Rumsfeld: Iran is a terrorist nation
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a gathering of defense experts yesterday that Iran was "one of the leading terrorist nations in the world."

What did The New York Times, Ahmadinnerjacket's own personal Pravda have to say? Waste of Times It's Just Like Iraq, Only Different - New York Times.

Iran is threatening once again, Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that attempts to punish Tehran would jeopardize the world's oil supply. Who are they kidding? 80% of Iran's budget is oil. They can't live without us. We (the West) refine their oil. They ship crude, we ship them back oil they can use. They are so full of bullshit and bluster, it is eerily reminiscent of Saddam.

Condi Rice was on Fox News Sunday today with Chris Wallace. Salient points

Read the whole transcript here.

RICE: We will not allow Iran to drag this out. This really has to be settled not in a matter of months. This program has been moving along. But one reason, Chris, that you want to be sure that there's a suspension of the activity is that you don't want the negotiations to be used as a cover for continued progress along the nuclear front. And so this package is put together in a way that guards against a kind of extended set of negotiations while the Iranian program continues. It's also put together in a way that gives Iran a pretty clear choice of what choice it can make.

WALLACE: There are plenty of doubters about your new initiative, and I want you to take a look at this comment in a Wall Street Journal editorial this week. Here it is. "Perhaps the most dispiriting part of this new diplomacy is the signal it will send to Iran's internal opposition. The regime is wildly unpopular, but it will use this implicit U.S. recognition to show that it has earned new world respect."

Secretary Rice, by offering this regime a set of circumstances under which the U.S. will sit down, aren't you undercutting the popular opposition inside Iran?

RICE: Chris, in many ways, this is a natural follow-on. The decision to join the talks is a natural follow-on to the decision that the president took more than a year ago to fully and completely back the negotiations.

It was a time in which we ourselves said that we would make some steps like supporting Iran's right to an application to the WTO. That was a decision the president made over a year ago.

This is a natural follow-on because if the negotiations are going to succeed, if that track is going to have a chance for success, it's pretty obvious that the United States has to be at the table.

But what this is not is an offer of a grand bargain somehow with Iran. This is not an offer to let...

WALLACE: But if you're sitting down...

RICE: ... bygones be bygones and to forget the record of terrorism or the human rights...

WALLACE: But if you sit down with the regime — let's say they agree, and you sit down with the regime, you can't be trying to destabilize and overthrow them at the same time.

RICE: Chris, we are trying to change Iranian behavior here, behavior that would be quite dangerous to the international community, the acquisition of an Iranian nuclear weapon. We aren't confused or have no illusions about the nature of the Iranian regime.