While Dick Cheney was getting booed as he threw out the first pitch for the Nationals -- it bounced in the dirt and Scooter was n't even there to catch it -- Iran was jubilantly welcoming itself to the nuclear club and spitting in the eye of the U.S. and U.N . Speaking before a mural of fluttering white doves , President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bragged that his scientists had concocted enriched uranium .