No stopping Iran, Ahmadinejad says
Nuke program needs halt button, replies Rice; report says bombing plan in works
By Democrat-Gazette Press Services
This article was published February 26, 2007 at 6:00 a.m.
TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday that his country's nuclear program was like a train without brakes or a reverse gear, prompting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to respond that Iran needs "a stop button."
The comments came as senior officials of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, the United States, France, China and Russia - and Germany prepared for an emergency summit in London today on increasing international pressureon Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
In another development, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue that a special planning group has been set up in the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop a bombing plan against Iran that could be activated within 24 hours of Bush's orders.
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