Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has compared Iran's enemies to a "mosquito" as his regime continues to stall in negotiations with the West over Iran's nuclear program.

Mr. Ahmadinejad made the comment Sunday, a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran that "we're not going to wait forever" for Iran to pearl jewelry accept the UN-backed nuclear deal, reports the Associated Press.

    "While enemies have used all their capacities ... the Iranian nation is standing powerfully and they are like a mosquito," a government Web site quoted Ahmadinejad early Sunday as saying. ... "Given the negative record of Western powers, the Iranian government ... looks at the talks with no trust. But realities dictate to them to interact with the Iranian nation."

Under the International Atomic Energy Agency deal hammered out by negotiators from France, the US, and Russia, Iran would send 1.2 tons of low-enriched uranium to Russia in one shipment before January, where it would be converted to fuel for a Iranian research reactor. The Associated Press reports that amount is about 70 percent of Iran's stockpile.

Iran on Thursday essentially refused the deal, saying it would not send the entire batch of fuel in one shipment, but preferred several smaller shipments. That is unacceptable to Western officials, who fear Iran could further enrich the nuclear material for biwa pearl use in weapons.

On Friday, the Iranian state news agency IRNA said that position was not a response to the proposal and Iran still wants more talks, but Mrs. Clinton warned Iran Saturday that "patience does finally have its limits" and called on the regime to accept the deal.

Russia's envoy to Tehran, Alexander Sadovnikov, also chimed in on Sunday, urging Iran to sign the fuel deal, reports Agence France-Presse.

    "This is not to trick Iran in order to take its low-enriched uranium out of its hands," Mr. Sadovnikov said in an interview with the official IRNA news agency. "We believe that reaching this agreement and signing the technical contract to produce fuel for the Tehran reactor is beneficial to Iran and will help in resolving the nuclear issue."

While Ahmadinejad takes a tough line with the akoya pearl international community, he also faces new challenges at home. The British daily The Guardian reports that Iranian students are planning a massive protest Wednesday against the president's regime on the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Iran by students.

The demonstration is a continuation of the protests that swept through Iran after a disputed election in June, in which Ahmadinejad claimed victory over accusations of massive fraud. The Guardian reports that universities have become hubs of underground dissent since June. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi appeared to support the planned protest, reports the newspaper, and said that the significance of planning it on the anniversary of student takeover of the US embassy is to remind Iran that "it is the people who are the leaders."

That’s what happens when a president has young children. He better celebrate Halloween. And President Obama is — with a lot of style.

In the recent past, the White House website has received the majority of the Halloween treatment with the residential staff recounting the legends of pearl jewelry presidential spirits and other bumps in the night at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

This year, the largest website celebrating Halloween is Google (they’ve switched their logo again). As for President Obama, he went full out — turning the White House into a Halloween carnival.

As Mel Brooks said in “History of the World, Part One,” it’s “good to be the king.” Or the president. Or the president’s daughters.

Because when it comes to trick or treating, they definitely had the coolest house on the block. (Technically speaking, it’s the only house on the block — because it takes up the entire block, but still…)

As we told you earlier, more than 2,000 kids in the DC area got to trick or treat at the president’s house today. They were greeted by a Chicago-based jazz band appropriately clad in skeleton costumes while Star Wars creatures and other costumed performers roamed the North Lawn among giant 1,000 pound pumpkins.

One of those Star Wars creatures? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. He was decked out as Darth Vader. To conservatives, nothing’s changed — except his apparel. They must undoubtedly believe that he must feel more comfortable in this menacing costume.

The end is nigh…

The glow of the White House was distinctly different as well. Orange flood lights gave it a more eerie look. If President Obama already frightens those in the biwa pearl tea party movement, then imagine what dancing skeletons in front of a fiery-looking White House must do.

Yep. Armageddon is here.

Conservative websites, predictably, are taking aim at the president in seasonal style.

One video on Pajamas TV has President Obama telling children that they have far too much candy in their Halloween bags and that some of it should be redistributed to children who didn’t get candy for themselves.

    “What? It’s Halloween, they can get their own candy,” said one trick-or-treater dressed in a pirate costume.

    “What about kids that are less fortunate than you,” the president asks.

    “It’s Halloween. It’s free,” said the pirate.

    “Maybe for kids like you who can afford costumes,” the akoya pearl president replied.

    “Hey commander-in-chief,” the kid said. “See my eye-patch? It’s felt. We’re not exactly running a Disney-budget on this one.”

The president goes on to say that if the children give him half of their candy, he’ll give them credit for new candy.

Here in South Korea, there's a booming business in Kim Jong-il look-alikes. Dozens of people in recent years have portrayed Kim Jong-il in television comedy shows, nightclub routines, and serious movies and dramas.

After the inter-Korean summit of June 2000, in pearl jewelry which Kim Jong-il received South Korea President Kim Dae-jung in Pyongyang, the South Korean government discouraged such satires for fear of upsetting reconciliation with the North.

Still, from time to time South Koreans delight in appearing on TV flaunting the curly-haired bouffant hairstyle, platform shoes, and protruding stomach for which the Dear Leader was known before he disappeared from view for months after reportedly suffering a stroke in August 2008.

The wave of public appearances reported by the biwa pearl North Korean propaganda machine since then to show he's in good health convinces some analysts that North Korean actors are portraying the Dear Leader, too – but in dead seriousness.

"That's possible," says Choi Jin-wook, senior fellow and specialist on North Korea at the Korea Institute of National Unification. "These dictators always need look-alikes for security reasons. Kim Jong-il is giving 'on-the-spot guidance' too often for his health."

Mr. Choi also says that North Korean photo editors are likely pasting in akoya pearl old pictures of Kim from previous times when he was in good health.

A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il.

Instead, they say, a look-alike has been standing in for him on some of the 122 trips he's reportedly made this year to the countryside, factories, cultural events, military units, and all sorts of other venues.

Some observers say the North Korean leader is too ill to pearl jewelry make all these appearances. One Japanese analyst claims President Clinton didn't meet with Kim Jong-il in August – he met with a Mr. Kim double.

The evidence of Kim stand-ins is far from verified, but several North Korean refugees here say that Kim has not one but several look-alikes playing his role.

Still, it's logical that for security reasons, Kim has one or biwa pearl more stand-ins, as did former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before the US invasion in 2003. One argument is that Kim has no time for all those trips outside Pyongyang while his health remains uncertain and he's preparing his youngest son to take over as early as next year.

Ha Tae-young, president of Open Radio for North Korea, which broadcasts two hours a day via shortwave into North Korea, cites the word of one recent North Korean defector.

"He says he knows a girl whose father is the actor for akoya pearl Kim Jong-il," says Mr. Ha. "Recently Kim Jong-il loses fat. He's very skinny these days. The defector says, If Kim Jong-il looks skinny, the actor can do the same thing."

No one here, however, is ready to go as far as Japanese writer Toshimitsu Shigemura, who has written two books and numerous articles claiming that Kim has been seriously ill for the past decade and may even have died.

Mr. Shigemura says that if the pearl jewelry real Kim, looking wan and weak, appeared before the Supreme People's Assembly several days after North Korea fired a long-range missile on April 5, then it must have been a look-alike who hosted former US President Bill Clinton in August.

"They were totally different people," says Mr. Shigemura, a former correspondent for Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper, who now teaches international relations at Waseda University in Tokyo. "In August, he looked very healthy."

Shigemura suspects that a skilled actor delivered the biwa pearl lines to Mr. Clinton during their three-hour, 17-minute meeting, which ended with Mr. Clinton flying back to the US with two journalists who had been held for 140 days.

Shigemura is equally convinced that an actor played Kim in recent meetings with China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, and the head of Hyundai Asan, the South Korean company responsible for developing special economic and tourist complexes in North Korea.

After the June 2000 summit, says Shigemura, Kim "was bedridden with diabetes" and "cannot walk by himself." He cites the names of three Japanese who claim to akoya pearl have met his look-alikes, including one who was told flatly, "I am a double."

One of them, a magician named Princess Tenko, Shigemura describes as a "close friend" of Kim, saw him more than once in visits to Pyongyang.

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