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Here's an interesting account of Akbar Rafsanjani, former President of Iran, speaking on the nuclear ambitions of Iran and the adventures of the U.S.

"The Persian Gulf is not a region where they can have fireworks and Iran is not a country where they can come for an adventure," cleric and former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told worshippers at Friday prayers.

"It is not acceptable that developed countries generate 70 or 80 percent of their electricity from nuclear energy and tell Iran, a great and powerful nation, that it cannot have nuclear electricity. Iran does not accept this," he added.

Although France produces close to 80 percent of its electricity from nuclear power stations, most major industrialized nations derive under 30 percent, U.S. Energy Information Administration data says.

Rafsanjani is often hailed by analysts as a pragmatist who wants to restore diplomatic relations with the United States.

And then just before the end of the article...

Rafsanjani reiterated Iran could not give up uranium enrichment, a key process in making nuclear fuel, but could work out a diplomatic solution by offering further assurances the fuel was not being diverted to bombs.

"This confidence has to be built in the next few months. When this period this is over, we will, God willing, continue enrichment and nuclear technology," he added, stressing Iran's co-operation with the U.N. atomic watchdog.

A red dawn sky in Iran doesn't symbolize spilt blood, it is just a red dawn. Rafsanjani, the Mullahs and the current "moderate" government have made clear that they aren't giving up their "right" to enrich uranium. When will we give up our belief that they don't mean it.