Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he is not concerned about the potential of an Israeli military strike against his country’s nuclear program.
In an interview Wednesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Ahmadinejad told host George Stephanopoulos that Iran “definitely” will continue its nuclear path.
Asked if he feared an Israeli military strike, Ahmadinejad said, “They’re not a factor. In our defense doctrine, we don’t even count them.”
Questioned further, the Iranian president said, “They’re finished, the Zionist regime is finished.” Later he said “The Zionist regime can’t manage Gaza, do they want to get into a conflict with Iran?”
Ahmadinejad, who was in the United States this week to attend the United Nations nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review conference, decried the fact that countries that possess nuclear weapons are telling other countries that they cannot have them, referring specifically to the United States.
“Those who have stockpiled their bombs and impose their will on others and act unlawfully are the ones who are playing with fire,” he said.
“Have we stockpiled bombs? Do we have atomic bombs? Who has used the nuclear bomb? Who has? Is it us stockpiling nuclear bombs? Do we possess a nuclear bomb? Who has the nuclear bomb? Who threatened other with nuclear bomb? We or the government of the United States?”
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