September 26th, 2008 by Amanda

Before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad spoke at the UN General Assembly this week, he fielded a number of questions from “The American Peace Movement,” as reported by The Nation. The inquiries ranged from human rights to Iran’s relationship with Israel, but many focused on the issue of alleged nuclear weapons development. He voiced a willingness to participate in diologue with the United States, but drew history to the fore by when he ridiculed the United States, the UK, France and Canada for cooperating with the pre-1979 regime of the Shah on nuclear technology.” The Nation quoted him as saying that “when there were no elections in Iran, they wanted us to be a nuclear power. As soon as there were elections, they didn’t want us to be a nuclear power.”

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