Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday accused the United
States and other Western countries of pretending to be concerned about the
Iranian nuclear program, saying they actually aimed to stop the access by other
countries of modern science and technology.
"They are pretending that they are concerned with the nuclear program of
Iran, but this is a big lie," said Ahmadinejad at a joint press conference held
after the meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
All the reports so far prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) inspectors indicated that there had been no violation of relevant
stipulations by Iran, he said, adding that the U.S. and other Western countries
themselves were engaged in non-peaceful nuclear activities and were expanding it
day by day.
"I mean that those regimes have never had any record of complying with this
provision of any international treaty or international law, and they themselves
everyday tested new brand of weapon of mass destruction," he said.
These countries were trying just to manipulate modern technology and sciences
and they wanted to prevent independent states from reaching the science and
technology, he said.
"They want to keep such modern science and technology in their monopoly, so
that they can sell that to other countries of the world with high cost, and this
is the mean reason for their opposition to the peaceful nuclear program of the
people of the Republic of Islamic Iran," he said.
The Iranian president arrived here on Wednesday. He is also scheduled to meet
other political and religious leaders in Jakarta. He will fly to the resort of
island of Bali on Friday for the conference of Eight Developing Countries.