Don't play with lion's tail, Iran warns UN
Afp, Tehran
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday warned the UN Security Council against imposing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear drive, telling the world body it risked playing with a "lion's tail". "We advise them not to indulge in child's play. Our actions are legal and Iran is a great country," Ahmadinejad said at a news conference. "They say that Iran is a lion sat down in a corner. And we tell them: Do not play with the lion's tail," he warned. Iran has infuriated the West by refusing international demands to suspend uranium enrichment, a process Europe and the United States fear could be used to make nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad on Tuesday warned Western powers it was too late to stop Iran's nuclear programme, amid new efforts to impose fresh UN sanctions against the Islamic republic. "It is too late to stop the progress of Iran," Ahmadinejad said at a news conference. "We have broken through to a new stage and it is too late to push us back."
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