Ahmadinejad: US, 'Zionists' to start new Mideast wars
Iranian president says his country has 'precise information' on American plot to stymie his country's growth and 'save Zionist regime' through military confrontation
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States is planning to launch two wars in the Middle East in order to pressure Tehran, English-language Press TV reported on Tuesday.
"We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot ... they plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months," he said in remarks Press TV posted on its website from an interview with him late Monday.
Ahmadinejad said the United States was seeking to achieve two main objectives from these wars.
"First of all, they want to hamper Iran's progress and development since they are opposed to our growth, and, secondly, they want to save the Zionist regime because it has reached a dead-end and the Zionists believe they can be saved through a military confrontation," he said referring to Israel.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly launched tirades against Israel which has never ruled out a military strike against Iran to stop its nuclear drive.
The Iranian leader particularly infuriated world powers when he dismissed the Holocaust as a "myth" and said Israel was doomed to be wiped off the map.
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