Iran leader plays down 'US war'
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is not heading for armed conflict with the US.
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Iran will not rule out using oil as a weapon if the United States resorts to military action against the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, an Iranian oil official said in remarks published on Tuesday.
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Iranian president appears unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country.
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The war of words between United States and Tehran continued today, with President Bush repeating his assertion that Iran is "a threat to world peace." The two countries have been trading accusations since a weekend incident involving Iranian boats and U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denied reports that Iran had slowed down its atomic work, which the West fears is aimed at making nuclear bombs.
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Iran&#039;s supreme leader said Sunday the United States would fail to provoke ethnic strife in the Islamic republic after several days of protests over a cartoon that insulted the country&#039;s largest minority.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran did not need nuclear weapons and his country was not heading for war with the United States, according to a television interview to be broadcast Sunday.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran was ready to help the United States and Britain in Iraq but only if they pledged to change their attitude and withdraw their troops.
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Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he is not an anti-Semite - months after urging Israel's destruction.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled out even a brief halt in Iran's nuclear program, saying Thursday it would hand a victory to the country's enemies and undercut the Islamic state's goal of becoming a world power
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Iran's supreme leader says the US should not to use the row over Tehran's nuclear programme to bring Iran to its knees.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday accused the United States of destabilizing Iraq through hired "terrorists" and former members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Iran says it is ready to talk to the US but rejects Washington's call for it to first halt uranium enrichment.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Monday that his government is not supporting the uprising by Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and blamed US troops for the fighting
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Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran does &quot;not need&quot; talks with the United States over its nuclear program because nothing would be gained, state television reported Tuesday.
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Iran's president praised Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for his firm opposition to the United States on Sunday, promising to deepen an alliance that is helping Tehran fight U.S. moves to rein in its nuclear program.
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Iran's former president decried a wave of "Islamophobia" that he said is being spread in the United States by fear and hatred of Islam in response to terror perpetrated by Muslims.