Ahmadinejad: Nations siding with U.S. against Iran - are enemies

"We will consider siding and cooperating with the US in its plots against Iran as an act of enmity which we would retaliate," official news agency IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

On Friday, the president said the U.S. started a new propaganda war against Iran with the aim of weakening the will of the Iranian people to pursue the legitimate right to peaceful nuclear programmes.

He warned other countries, namely Russia and its President Dmitry Medvedev, not to join the "U.S. plot."

"The US has involved some European countries, including Russia, in their latest scenarios against Iran. All of them should know that if they do, like bothering our ships and airplanes, then Iran would give a decisive reply which would make them regret," Ahmadinejad warned.

He referred to parts of new sanctions which include inspections of Iranian ships and, according to Tehran, refusing to refuel Iranian passenger planes at international airports. Ahmadinejad also attacked the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying, "We finally realized that the IAEA was after enmity and not cooperation."

The Iranian parliament is considering to a bill obliging the government to revise and even decrease its cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog. "But eventually all these threats and sanctions will turn into new valuable opportunities for Iran to accelerate progress and self-sufficiency," the president said.

Ahmadinejad often said that Iran does not care about the UN resolutions and sanctions, and would not relinquish from its rights to pursue nuclear technology, including a disputed uranium-enrichment process.

Tehran denies accusations that it is working on a secret military programme and nuclear weapons research. It says that all of its nuclear projects fall within the Non-Proliferation Treaty and IAEA regulations.


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