Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “I declare to the big powers of the world that Iran and Iranian government will follow the path to achieve peaceful…”

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

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.

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?

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