Era of atomic bombs over: President Ahmadinejad
\n16 April, 2013 – Shia Post<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the era of atomic bombs is over and the use of nuclear weapons will no longer influence political equations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe era of the atomic bomb is over. Atomic bombs are no longer useful and have no effect on political equations. Atomic bombs belong to the last century, and anyone who thinks he can rule the world by atomic bombs is a political fool,\u201d Ahmadinejad said during his visit to Benin on Monday.<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad added that imperialism is what currently threatens the world, not nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
The Iranian president said world powers seek to maintain their monopoly over nuclear energy and are using propaganda tools to insinuate the idea that nuclear energy equates a nuclear bomb \u2013 which is \u201ca big lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNuclear energy is one thing and an atomic bomb is another. This useful energy must belong to all nations,\u201d Ahmadinejad stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fighting so that all nations could use peaceful nuclear energy,\u201d the Iranian president said, adding that although monopolists were resisting, they would fail against the struggles of independent countries such as Iran, and African and Latin American states.<\/p>\n
Those countries that possess large stockpiles of nuclear weapons deceptively claim that they are against the use of such arms, Ahmadinejad said. He added that if those countries oppose the use of nuclear weapons, they must not be in possession of the weapons.<\/p>\n
Ahmadinejad left Tehran for a three-day tour of Africa on Sunday at the head of a high-ranking delegation.
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