Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasted no time in confronting the West over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just days after being sworn in, Ahmadinejad defended Iran's decision to break seals placed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on a facility in Isfahan, thus ending a nine-month-old voluntary moratorium on converting uranium ore into gas used in the uranium-enrichment process.
The move followed Iran's rejection of a U.S.-backed compromise proposed by Britain, France and Germany that called for Iran to give up uranium-enrichment activities which could potentially produce fuel for an atomic weapon in exchange for a comprehensive...
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