Ahmadinejad says Iran ‘does not need’ US

AFP: Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that his country “does not really need” to restore relations with the United States, which were cut off a quarter of a century ago. “Iran is on a path of progress and elavation, and does not really need the United States on this path,” he told a news conference.
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TEHRAN – Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that his country “does not really need” to restore relations with the United States, which were cut off a quarter of a century ago.

“Iran is on a path of progress and elavation, and does not really need the United States on this path,” he told a news conference.

But he added: “We can work with any country in the world that does not show animosity to Iran.”
“The foreign policy of the government is justice, peace and co-existence, and the expansion of mutual, just relations,” he added.

Ahmadinejad, a hardliner who is currently mayor of Tehran, won a landslide victory against moderate conservative cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in Friday’s presidential election run-off. He takes office in August.