IRAN:
GIANT ACHIEVEMENTS COMING SOON
Ahmadinejad: On February 11, Islamic Republic's nuclear rights 'will be established'
Yaakov Lappin
"Giant achievements" by Iran will be unveiled by its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
in the coming days, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
The Iranian news agency said
an upcoming dramatic announcement on Iran's
nuclear "rights" would be made on February 11. The report was accompanied by a series of announcements heralding alleged Iranian
technological and medical breakthroughs, including an "AIDS cure."
Ahmadinejad's "administration
is going to publicize the country's remarkable progresses and achievements within the coming days," the Fars
news agency said.
"The Iranian president also
reiterated that February 11 is the day when the Iranian nation's inalienable right to access and use nuclear technology will
be established," the agency added.
"The Iranian nation will celebrate
stabilization and establishment of its nuclear rights during the Ten-Day Dawn, (sic)" Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. The
"ten-day dawn" in early February marks the date of the Islamic revolution in Iran
in 1979.
"When a nation decides to
stand on its own feet to climb up the peaks, God helps it and that nation will embrace victory," Ahmadinejad said.
The Iranian government's boasts
of "great achievements" included an announcement on Saturday that Iranian scientists have "introduced an AIDS cure".
"After seven long years of
arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS)," Fars reported.
"The drug named 'IMOD' is
completely effective and safe with no proven side effects," Iran's
Minister of Health Kamran Bagheri Lankarani claimed during a ceremony.
"The world should know today
that the capable Iranian nation, relying on its own youths and scientists, has now conquered the peaks of knowledge and science,"
Ahmadinejad declared during his speech.