Iran's president uses UN conference as stage for his attacks

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has used the UN nuclear conference in New York to slam the United States. By publishing exact figures about its nuclear warheads the US offered Ahmadinejad a welcome target for his attacks, the left-liberal daily La Repubblica writes: "The timing and turn the UN conference has proven unfortunate for the US. The Americans had hoped that the international conference, where the power is not in their favour and which won't produce a condemnation of Iran, would take place after sanctions against Tehran had already been imposed. But owing to Russian and China's resistance to financial and economic details the negotiations on sanctions in which the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany are participating are making slow progress. This enabled Iranian President Ahmadinejad to use the UN conference as a stage without any fear of sanctions."

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