
President at a press conference in Pakistan:
Zionist stoke instability in Mideast to help the arrogant powers maintain control over the region
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the Zionist regime was created to wage wars, stoke instability and foment discord in the Middle East in order to help the arrogant powers maintain control over the region.
“The main mission of the Zionist regime is to create wars and conflicts and it has been created to stoke division and wage wars in the region so that the hegemony can control the region,”Dr. Ahmadinejad said at a press conference in Pakistan on Thursday.
He was speaking on the sidelines of the summit of the Group of Eight Developing Countries (D8) in Pakistan on Thursday.
President Ahmadinejad said that the Zionist regime takes advantage of every opportunity to hurt Iran, adding, however, that Zionist regime knows full well that Iran is not after aggression but can defend itself in such a way that will make aggressors regret their act.
“The Iranian nation gives no place to Zionists in its defense equations and their wish to hurt Iran is a childish desire and it is not important to us,” Dr.Ahmadinejad said.
He said that the Zionist regime and its supporters cannot be considered powerful as they were defeated by both Hezbollah and Hamas.
Describing the Zionists as the enemy of all nations, Dr.Ahmadinejad said that all countries should mobilize their resources to counter Zionism, which is a step toward achieving global security.
He said that hegemonic and Western powers used the issue of terrorism as a tool to invade countries in the region and added terrorism will persist as long as the arrogant powers remain in the region.
President said that the much-awaited Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project would be completed by 2014.He said work was in progress at a good pace for laying gas pipelines in Iran.
He said Pakistan and Iran enjoyed cordial relations.
Describing the D-8 summit in Islamabad as highly successful, he said that it would help promote trade and economic ties between the member states.
In reply to a question, the president said Iran was capable of countering all threats.
“There are threats to our country but we know how to defend our country.”
Dr.Ahmadinejad condemned terrorist attacks in the Pakistani cities of Karachi and Rawalpindi, and said Iran was opposed to the killing of defenseless people in any part of the world.
He said that such measures aimed to undermine Pakistan and added certain Western countries seek to make Pakistan insecure and impede its progress.