oh please no, not backlash!

The Canadian Press reports: “Iran’s top leaders vow to continue nuclear program despite NKorea backlash.”

In a nearly subsequent response, and in the wake of North Korea’s “successful” nuclear bomb test, a clearly shaken Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran said, “Our policy is clear: Progress, offering transparent logic and insisting on the rights of the nation without retreat.” But you could tell he was really worried about the repercussions North Korea is experiencing.

Privately (I just know) he worried to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (may he languish forever without press coverage) that Iran could not withstand another round of stern finger wagging and condemnations such as Ahmadinejad doles out to Israel every day.

“Don’t you realize,” Khamenei said, his lower lip quivering, “that the UN may convene to discuss the slim possiblity of opening a dialogue on whether to allow the suggestion of contemplating a prolonged timetable for issuing a resolution which takes a decidedly ‘disappointed’ view of our nuclear program? Do you really want that?”