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President Mahmoud rants, makes faces
 Iran's ultra-conservative president elect said last night that he wants "fair" relations with the entire world, but warned western nations not to issue demands to his country, which the US accuses of wanting to build nuclear weapons. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech came during an exclusive interview with state-run Iranian television and indicated the new Iranian leader's apparent determination to not bow to US demands to curtail his country's nuclear programme. "We are urging fair relations with the world, but people are being blocked by some who claim they promote democracy and freedom but act vice versa when they deal with Iranians," Mr Ahmadinejad said in an apparent reference to the US.Mr Ahmadinejad also said that his surprise landslide election win last month was a message from Iranians to "the world that they want to be independent". "They [the west] still think like landlords of a century ago," he said."Landlords expected their peasants just to listen to their words. But the period of one-sided decision-making is over. Our nation does not accept imposed relations." Posted by: Fred 2005-07-12 |
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