Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Some seek to rule the world relying on weapons and threats, while others live in perpetual insecurity and danger.”

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.

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.

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?

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.