According to Khabar Online correspondent, as Ahmadinejad had not earlier commented on Basiji student’s storm into the British Embassy, he said Telesur: "The officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Foreign Ministry expressed their view [expressing deep regret over the events in a statement] and the security officials are investigating the issue.”
Ahmadinejad's comment came a day after a controversial speech he had made a day earlier at a ceremony held as a death anniversary for his former Interior Minister Ali Kordan in Mazandaran province, north Iran. In his speech, referring to the case of Kordan Ahmadinejad lambasted his critics by implication.
As a close aide of Ahmadinejad, Kordan was impeached in 2008 by Iran’s Majlis (parliament) for including a forged honorary PhD degree from Oxford University on his resume. He died in November 2009 of multiple myeloma. Later Ahmadinejad called the investigation on Kordan's case as an alignment with the old fox (the UK) and regarded his impeachment as an illegal act.
But in his interview with Venezuelan TV he preferred to focus more on international issues stressing: "No one dares to attack Iran."
Responding to a question on Iran's successful operation of seizing the unmanned American stealth RQ-170 Sentinel aircraft and the US officials claim that Iran is not able to carry out reverse-engineering on the drone Ahmadinejad said: "Perhaps the Americans themselves have decided that the drone be captured by Iran!"
"Certainly those who could take the control of the aircraft are able to carry out other operations on that. Moreover Iran has made huge advancements in manufacturing unmanned drones which is not far beyond the Western technology," he added.
On what the US officials believe that Iran cannot get access to the complicated database of RQ-170 Sentinel but it's rather useful for Russia and China, Ahmadinejad said: "They talk a lot on the issue. Let them be happy with such talks, but that'll be the day when they will realize Iran's modern technological capabilities."
Earlier the US President Barack Obama, speaking at a news conference with the visiting Iraqi prime minister Monday, said the United States had asked Iran to give the downed American reconnaissance plane back.
However Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi told semi-official ISNA news agency the American espionage drone is now Iran's property, and our country will decide what steps to take regarding it."
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