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Ahmadinejad calls UN Security Council 'political retards'
Friday December 24, 2010 05:51:51 PM,
DPA
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Tehran: Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the member states of the UN
Security Council were "political retards" for still believing in
the effectiveness of sanctions, the news agency ILNA reported
Friday.
"The officials of those countries who in the third millennium
still think sanctions are an effective means are politically
retarded," the ILNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying during a visit to
Istanbul.
The member states of the UN Security Council with the exception of
Brazil, Turkey and Lebanon voted overwhelmingly for a fourth
sanctions resolution against Iran in June over the Islamic state's
nuclear programme.
Ahmadinejad claimed, as he has previously, that the UN sanctions
have no effect as neither the United States nor Europe has any
major role in the Iranian economy.
He said the next nuclear meeting with world powers, scheduled to
be held at the end of next month in Istanbul would be an important
opportunity to settle the dispute.
But he again stated that Iran would not be intimidated into
forsaking its right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology.
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