Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We need the peaceful nuclear technology for energy, medical and agricultural purposes, and our scientific progress.

Ahmadinejad couched the alliances as part of 'a large anti-imperialist movement that has emerged in the region.'

I think the U.S. government is busy fabricating a new scenario and history has shown both the U.S. government and the CIA have a lot of experience in fabricating these scenarios.

It is not acceptable that some who are several thousands of kilometers away from the Middle East should send in troops for military intervention and for spreading war, bloodshed, aggression, terror and intimidation while blaming the…

The massive propaganda of the foreign media as well as other evidence proves the interference of the enemies of the Iranian nation who want to take political advantage and darken the pure face of the Islamic Republic.

I was addressing those who started riots and set up fires and attacked people. I said, 'They are nothing.' They're not even part of the nation of Iran.

You have Ayatollah Rafsanjani, perhaps the second most powerful man in Iran, forming a coalition with former President Mohammad Khatami, both of whom are working behind the scenes to try to pressure the supreme leader to annul this vote.

The countries in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region are able to protect themselves to run their own affairs and to establish security themselves, and do not need external forces and their involvement to interfere in their affairs.

Our nuclear program, first and foremost, operates within the framework of law, and, second, under the inspections of the IAEA. And, thirdly, they are completely peaceful.

If someone comes and explodes bombs around you, threatens your president, members of the administration, kills the members of the Senate or Congress, how would you treat them?

Iran has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.