“The Iranian nuclear issue is totally clear. The Americans try to put pressure on the Iranian nation every time under different pretexts, and at the present juncture, the nuclear issue is an excuse [for them] to exert pressure on Iran,” President Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Kuwaiti political, cultural and social scholars in Kuwait City on Wednesday.
Iran is opposed to nuclear bombs and the Zionists are wrong to think that we would hit them with an atomic bomb, President Ahmadinejad said, adding the Iranian nation will counter its enemies using its thought and culture emanating from the logic of Islam.
The Iranian chief executive said that global powers seek to stoke Iranophobia but reiterated that the Islamic Republic is a reliable partner for its neighbors as it has never carried out a measure that would undermine its brotherly relations with neighbors and friends.
The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.
Iran argues that as a signatory to the NPT and a member of International Atomic Energy Agency, it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
President Ahmadinejad arrived in Kuwait on Tuesday to attend the first summit of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) group.
The two-day summit opened in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday.
Established in 2002, the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) seeks to promote Asian cooperation at a continental level and to help integrate separate regional cooperation organizations such as ASEAN, SAARC and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council ([P]GCC).
Iran is one of the members of the group.
President Ahmadinejad returned to Tehran on Wednesday night.
On the sidelines of the meeting, he met with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah as well as heads of state attending the summit.
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