Ahmadinejad Threatens To Destroy Israel

Iran is approaching the "peak" in its nuclear program and will not yield to Western pressure to halt its activities, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said recently. Ahmadinejad was speaking in the southwestern town of Bushehr near the site of Iran's planned first nuclear power plant, being built with Russian help, and predicted the country would have nuclear electricity by this time next year. "If you (Western powers) imagine that the Iranian nation will back down you are making a mistake," he said in a televised speech. "On the nuclear path we are moving towards the peak," he said without elaborating. Turning his attention to Israel, Ahmadinejad said, "The religious Palestinian people will bring down the last screen with its powerful hand on the Zionists' puppet theater. It's time to end the puppet theater of this fake regime." The Iranian president noted that Israel's days were numbered and that it has reached its end.