Iran tells West to drop ‘bullying’ tone

US President Barack Obama, though, has cautioned against “bluster”
in talking about possible war with Iran, saying there still exists a window
of diplomacy.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, welcomed Obama’s “good talk”
but called US determination to continue with sanctions an “illusion”.

The United States and other Western governments suspect Iran is working
towards a nuclear weapon capability, although US intelligence services say
Tehran has made no decision yet on whether to produce an actual bomb.

Iran, for its part, denies it is even researching nuclear weapons.

It has twice refused, though, requests by the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect a
suspect military site for signs of alleged experiments with explosives of
the sort that could be used to trigger an atomic blast.

The United States and the European Union have in the past four months greatly
ramped up economic sanctions on Iran in a bid to force it to suspend uranium
enrichment, the most sensitive part of its nuclear programme.

Ahmadinejad said: “They should know they will never prevail. There are no
acute problems in the country and its economic pillars are strong. It is a
psychological war.”

His government, he vowed, “will overcome all the problems.”

The Iranian president also dismissed Israel, which has been leading the
bellicose rhetoric, as “a dead entity”.

“Do not think that just because idiot leaders of regional countries
support you, you will cement your basis in the region,” he said.

Ahmadinejad also lashed out at Arab governments backing the Western pressure
against his country – implicitly including Saudi Arabia, which is pumping
extra oil to make up for curbed Iranian exports.

“The (Arab leaders) have no support among their people. If they give only
one day of freedom to their nation, their people in the one day will topple
them all,” he said.

Source: AFP

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