Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday shrugged off criticism from French President Nicolas Sarkozy and said his comments lacked "political credibility.""I mean, what does some Frenchy know?"
Sarkozy, whose government has taken a tough stance against Tehran over its alleged nuclear drive, said on Wednesday he could not sit at the same table as Ahmadinejad, who has regularly slammed Israel's inhumane treatment of Palestinians. "We do not care much, we have to see in practice. We do not consider this remark to have any political credibility," Ahmadinejad told reporters.
Iran said on Thursday that its foreign ministry had summoned the French ambassador to Tehran, Bernard Poletti, to express the Islamic republic's "strong objections to the recent interfering comments by the French president."
France has condemned Iran's perceived threats against Israel and maintained its position after Tehran summoned the ambassador "The declarations of the Iranian authorities questioning this right are unacceptable and can only have a negative effect on the perception of Iran by the international community," a French foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday.