For the third time this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it clear that his country will not curb its nuclear program regardless of international opposition. 
The nuclear issue has come to an end and our nation will not negotiate.
Iranian government media claimed on Wednesday that Ahmadinejad addressed cheering crowds in Isfahan regarding the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. "In our opinion," he declared, "the nuclear issue has come to an end and our nation will not negotiate [it]." Instead, he continued, Iran will independently produce 20-percent enriched nuclear fuel to supply a Tehran nuclear reactor.
Israel and its leaders, Ahmadinejad added, are meaningless and "can not do a damn thing" to stop Iran.
Ahmadinejad further claimed that his regime made the decision to independently supply its needs after the International Atomic Energy Agency refused to supply Iran with 20-percent enriched uranium fuel. However, Iran recently rejected a deal worked out with the U.N. in which the Iranian uranium would be enriched abroad and shipped back to Iran for those energy and medical uses which they claim to be pursuing.
"We have declared to the world that the international organizations are being ruled by corrupt powers," Ahmadinejad is quoted as saying.
'No One Can Isolate Iran'
On Tuesday night, the Iranian leader declared that his nation "is not obligated to report to the IAEA about nuclear facilities it is building, rather just about technology it imports." He called the efforts to isolate Iran over its refusal to cooperate with international oversight of its nuclear program "psychological warfare waged by the Western nations. Iran is a unique nation and no other country can isolate it. Sanctions will have no effect on Iran."
In reaction to Russia's decision to support the IAEA position against Iran, Ahmadinejad said, "Russia made a mistake in supporting the anti-Iranian decision and we believe that their analysis in this matter was mistaken."
Earlier this week, Iranian media reported that the Islamic Republic's Nuclear Energy Council was instructed to begin construction of five new facilities for uranium enrichment. According to the government's decision, officially revealed on Sunday, the new facilities are to be the size of the central nuclear enrichment plant in Natanz. That facility has over 8,500 centrifuges for enrichment purposes.
According to the report in Iran's government controlled media, the locations of the five new plants have already been decided upon. Construction is to start within two months.
Ahmadinejad will also reportedly order his Nuclear Energy Council to determine what is needed for Iran to enrich the uranium it has already produced.