Iran makes admission against interest in response to Obama

CNN:

Iran's parliament speaker has criticized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama for saying that Iran's development of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable.

Ali Larijani said Saturday that Obama should apply his campaign message of change to U.S. dealings with Iran.

"Obama must know that the change that he talks about is not simply a superficial changing of colors or tactics," Larijani said in comments carried by the semi-official Mehr News Agency.

"What is expected is a change in strategy, not the repetition of objections to Iran's nuclear program, which will be taking a step in the wrong direction."

In his first post-election news conference Friday afternoon, Obama reiterated that he believes a nuclear-armed Iran would be "unacceptable." He also said he would help mount an international effort to prevent it from happening.

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Is Larijani admitting that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons? He certainly appears to be. Before Iran has always couched its statements on its nuclear intentions as seeking to develop electrical generating capacity and not weapons. With this admission, it should make it easier for the US to get sanctions against Iran at the UN where some have bought into the Iranian peaceful uses fiction.