Sanctions can do nothing to Iranian nation: Ahmadinejad

8 October 2008

Tehran-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday in the northeastern city of Bojnourd that the Western governments should know that imposition of sanctions can do nothing to Iranian nation.

Addressing a large group of people of North Khorassan province, he said the advocates of liberalism and democracy think that the Iranian nation would retreat from its inalienable rights.

They have always been harbingers of war and conflicts throughout the globe, he said, adding that they have waged over one hundred wars in the world on the pretext of support for freedom and human rights.

He added that even the eight-year Iraqi imposed war on Iran was waged by these so-called advocates of democracy.

As to financial crisis in the US, Ahmadinejad said the American authorities have become distressed and have lost their self-confidence.

Most of world population suffer from threats, war, insecurity and instability created by the bullying powers, he said, adding that the big powers try to transfer their problems to other world countries.

President Ahmadinejad, along with cabinet members, arrived in Bojnourd this morning on the second round of his provincial tours started in the current Iranian year to follow up implementation of the projects that had been approved during the first round of his provincial visits.

He made the initiative to visit different provinces since he took office in 2005 in order to bring closer the government to ordinary people.