Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “We are no threat for anyone. The issue of making nuclear weapons has no place in Iran's policy. Making nuclear weapons…”

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

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.

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.

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