The nuclear issue can't be resolved by pressure. Iran's right has to be respected and recognized and you have to talk to Iran," reiterated the president.

'We are for dialogue. We think dialogue is always better than quarreling and war. This is the logic of the Iranian nation,' Dr.Ahmadinejad added.

He emphasized again his country's readiness for cooperation on the nuclear issue.

'We have always been ready for cooperation ... and are still ready now to have cooperation.'

Dr.Ahmadinejad lambasted western sanction policy against Tehran, branding it 'wrong.'

President reaffirmed his country's opposition to having a nuclear bomb, saying such a weapon was a relic of the past century.

He labeled a nuclear bomb 'an inhuman and immoral weapon.'

Iran says that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. Dr.Ahmadinejad said that even if the country were to seek a nuclear capability, it wouldn’t hesitate to declare it.

'We are against an atomic bomb, we would never build one. When we say we don't want to build a bomb we mean it.'

President Ahmadinejad made clear that while his country was not looking for a war with any country, it was ready to defend itself against any military aggression.

'We will defend, if we are attacked. We are a great nation and powerful.'

Meanwhile, Dr.Ahmadinejad accused the UN nuclear watchdog of being biased against Iran when it comes to its nuclear program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is 'not working independently but is under the political influence of the great (western) powers,' he lamented.

The president also asserted that Iran was “cooperating at maximum” with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but blamed the UN watchdog for succumbing to pressure from the “great powers” to cajole his country into going beyond IAEA rules. “The IAEA tells us that we must prove that we’re clean, that we’re correct,” Dr.Ahmadinejad said. “How can you prove that? How can you prove that you’re not sick?”

“It’s not the right way to handle a great nation, a nation that uses logic and cooperation,” the president told ZDF.

Dr.Ahmadinejad who said his country should no longer be subjected to an ongoing discrimination in the Vienna-based UN nuclear agency.

He emphasized while Iran has been cooperating with the IAEA it has not only faced further punishment but also a deadly terror wave against its scientists.

Dr.Ahmadinejed held the IAEA responsible for leaking 'secret information to Iran's enemies.'

He urged the UN nuclear body to treat Iran fairly within the framework of its laws and regulations and respect its nuclear rights.

President responding to a question, do you consider Israel as an artificial country?

Said of course -- you know it, and the others know it too. How did this nation, this regime came to be? It was a colonialist planning, everyone knows that it created by a lie. They have never been rulers of this country. They have invented a story with the title Holocaust and the damage, the cost for that, had to be paid by the Palestinians. While the Palestinians played no role at all, neither during the 2nd World War, nor in the events afterwards.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “lie” and accusing Zionist regime of using it to suppress Palestinians. Zionist regime statehood “was a colonialist plan that resulted from a lie,” He said: “They never were rulers of this land.

Responding to this question, is that the reason that you once said "This country will vanish from the map?"President said we said that occupation and crimes have to be stopped and prevented lies. Working against children and women, terrorism, these things, we are against these phenomena.