Iran's Ahmadinejad Says He Doesn't Want Nuclear Arms
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview with Time Magazine published Sunday that his nation is not seeking to build nuclear weapons. "We are opposed to nuclear weapons. We think it has been developed just to kill human beings. It is not in the service of human beings," said Ahmadinejad, noting that in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly last year he called for establishment of a committee for disarming all countries with nuclear weapon capabilities. Ahmadinejad went on to say he did not believe Iran and the U.S. were destined for conflict. The Bush administration "should live their own lives. They should serve the interests of the U.S. people. They should not interfere in our affairs. Then there would be no problems with that," he said. Washington argues that it is serving U.S. interests, and the interests of its allies in Israel and Europe, by opposing what it believes is without a doubt a nuclear weapons program in Iran. Speaking on CNN's "Late Edition" on Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni warned that the day is rapidly approaching that Iran will reach a point where it cannot be stopped from obtaining nuclear weapons. "The crucial moment is not the day of the bomb. The crucial moment is the day in which Iran will master the enrichment, the knowledge of enrichment," Livni said, referring |
