(KUNA) -- Iran's President  Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad denied that his country was working on making a nuclear bomb and stressed its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
"When we say we do not wish to make a nuclear bomb, we mean that. Anyone who wants to have a nuclear bomb must by out of their mind," Nejad told Euronews channel, Wednesday.
"A sane person could never use a nuclear bomb in any dispute," he stressed,
and he refuted all accusations regarding Iran's nuclear activities. "The nuclear program is for medicinal purposes," he insisted.
| Those crazy, crazy French!!1!!eleventy! |
The west constantly accuses Iran of possession of nuclear weapons under the guise of a peaceful program.
| No, Iran is accused of working toward acquiring nuclear weapons, with the aim of establishing regional hegemony. Not quite the same thing, thank goodness. |
Tehran meanwhile vehemently denies that.
The Iranian president also defended his country against accusations of human right abuses. "Every country in the world has prisons," he remarked.
"We are a free society, and everybody can declare their opinion, and there are even criticisms against me personally by some opposition figures, who express themselves without fear." The ineffective International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), headquartered in Vienna, had recently expressed the view that it was not unlikely Iran is in the process of making a nuclear bomb. |