Nuclear Issue Closed, Says Iran Leader

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's leader, declares Tuesday that Iran's nuclear program is closed as a political issue and says Tehran will ignore the U.N. Security Council's Demand.

Yahoo News Reports, that during the U.N. General Assembly he told world leaders that Iran has chose to continue pursuing the monitoring of their nuclear program,

through its appropriate legal path

, the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency. U.S. delegation walked out of the room as the Iran leader was ushered to the podium, leaving only a note-taker to listen to his speech, which accused the United States and Israel of major human rights violations, indirectly. According to State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos, the U.S. wanted,

to send him a powerful message.

. Following a brief speech by the Iranian President, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the delegation that if Iran were to aquire a nuclear bomb that there would be

disastrous consequences

.

The world does not have to prove to Iran that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. Iran has to convince the world that it is not striving towards such a bomb

. Following the end of the assembly, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News that Ahmadinejad should not have been invited to address the General Assembly.