[Article by an unnamed staff reporter: "Iran Pressing on in Defiance of Unwarranted US Interference"]
The great leader Comrade Kim Il-so'ng [Kim Il Sung] taught:
"Nowadays no one supports the outdated order of domination and subordination, which tramples on man's independence. A relic of the old times, it is rejected everywhere."
Recently, a shocking fact was unveiled to the media that the United States is getting ready for military action against Iran, causing uproar in the international community.
The person who made the revelation was Seymour [M.] Hersh, a renowned American political commentator. He is said to have obtained the material for it from a high-ranking, informed source within the US Administration.
According to the data unveiled, the United States, currently viewing it as an established fact to carry out a military invasion of Iran this summer, has been checking the locations of basic strategic targets and studying methods to destroy them since last year by mobilizing intelligence groups. In a nutshell, the United States is said planning for precision strikes and special military operations against more than 30 targeted installations, which are capable of producing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
Also unveiled was the fact that the US President had signed top-secret documents and presidential orders approving military activities of secret commandos and other special units against10 Middle East and South Asian nations.
Seymour Hersh, who unveiled the alleged US plan of Iran invasion this time, earlier brought to light last year the US forces' abuses of Iraqi inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison to shock the world. So, a large majority of journalists and analysts of the world today generally have no doubt as to the reliability of the alleged Iran invasion plan.
Noteworthy in particular are the US Administration's reactions to the allegation.
The United States is unable to come up with a vigorous denial, for all that it is doing now is to get high officials of the Administration to make an insipid response describing it as a "frivolous rumor."
On 17 January this year, US President Bush, answering a question from an NBC reporter on whether he had ruled out potential military action against Iran, said that "I will never take any option off the table," hinting that a military attack against Iran could be launched.
Subsequently, US Vice President Cheney, at a press conference, also said, "Look at the world's potential trouble spots; Iran is right at the top of the list," laying bare the US invasion attempt.
As the United States is turning the spearhead of "war on terrorism" to Iran in its scheme to stage a second Iraq crisis in that region, the Iranian Government is, in its response, taking resolute measures for self-defense.
On 20 January, Iranian President Khatami, at a joint press conference during his visit to Uganda, declared that "if any country tries to invade our country, we are strong enough to defend ourselves."
Earlier, an official spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, stating the position of his government, said that Iran has no interest in direct talks with the United States on bilateral issues unless it changes its hostile attitude.
In connection with US President Bush's remark that the United States would not rule out use of force against Iran, the Iranian minister of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics declared that "we can stress that we also have swiftly produced our equipment that can be the most powerful deterrent." He was demonstrating Iran's will that, in the event the United States opts for a reckless military intervention, Iran will confront it and fight fare and square with a powerful deterrent.
Currently, Iran is taking a series of powerful military measures in its response to Washington's anti-Iran policy, which is becoming increasingly undisguised everyday.
Some time ago, to the Iranian Air Force was given orders to shoot down any unidentifiable aircraft that violates Iran's airspace, without exception.
The Iranian armed forces -- including the approximately 900,000-strong army, navy, and air force and the 125,000-strong Islamic Revolutionary Guard Forces -- are in a high level of combat readiness overall.
While containing the US attempt at a military occupation, Iran is pressing on exercising its legitimate rights in a dignified manner, including that to peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Iran has taken flexible measures to prove to the international community that its nuclear activities are through and through for peaceful use of nuclear energy and, at the same time, repeatedly made its strong will clear that it will never abandon its legitimate right.
Sometime ago, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations said that the same United States that once had welcomed Iran's nuclear power plant construction suddenly changed its attitude and was now busy spreading all kinds of slanders. Iran will never abandon its right to peaceful use of nuclear energy, he emphasized.
In fact, in an effort to carry out its nuclear power program, Iran is energetically pushing forward its cooperation with the European Union and Russia, no matter who says what.
Presently, positive negotiations are under way between Iran and the European Union and between Iran and Russia concerning solutions to practical issues arising in the realm of peaceful use of nuclear energy, such as a halt to uranium enrichment activity and return of [spent] nuclear fuel.
In this connection, many countries around the world, while recognizing Iran's legitimate right to peaceful use of nuclear energy, are coming out against the unfair stance of the United States seeking an extremist way of solving the Iranian issue.
It is the common view of the international community and observers that, if the United States, which is at its wit's end for a solution to the Iraq issue, should pick Iran as the next target of a military invasion, it will fall into a maze from which it can never find a way out and, consequently, have no alternative but to reopen peaceful negotiations with Iran.
The United States should take a square look at the trends and quit its military unilateralism and policy of high-handedness at once.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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