.....and you know what, he kinda has a point. :think:
Ahmadinejad Condemns World Powers for Atomic Arsenals (Update1)
By Ladane Nasseri
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticized the world's most powerful countries for expanding their atomic arsenals while attempting to stop the progress of other nations toward ``peaceful nuclear energy.''
``The expansion of nuclear arms by oppressing powers is continuing and other nations' peaceful nuclear activities are being condemned by these very countries through accusations that they are being aimed at constructing nuclear weapons,'' Ahmadinejad said in a speech aired live on state television.
``The United Nations Security Council is backing the interests of powerful countries and dismissing the rights of most other nations,'' he said in today's address to foreign ministers from the Non-Aligned Movement who met in Tehran. ``There is no influential and independent body to enforce nuclear disarmament by countries possessing nuclear weapons.''
Ahmadinejad told NBC News in an interview aired yesterday that Iran isn't developing nuclear weapons and would respond positively to a new approach from the U.S. Iranian, European Union and U.S. diplomats met in Geneva on July 19, when Iran was given two weeks to respond to an offer of economic and diplomatic incentives in exchange for the suspension of uranium enrichment.
Iran, which is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, has said its nuclear program is aimed at generating electricity for a growing population and is lawful under the treaty. ......(more)
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awDkWZaaxAd0&refer=home