Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Iran has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.”

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.

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.

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

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?