Iran takes nuclear claims to U.N.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken his country's claims of no nuclear weapons aspirations to New York.
His schedule included an address to the U.N. General Assembly and a speech at Columbia University.
Sunday night, CBS aired an interview with Ahmadinejad in which he said nuclear weapons were no longer necessary.
"If it was useful, it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union," Ahmadinejad said. "If it was useful, it would (have) resolved the problem the Americans have in Iraq. The time of the bomb is passed."
His remarks on "60 Minutes" suggest much of his U.N. address will focus on deflecting U.S. accusations of a nuclear weapons program and also that Iran is arming insurgents in Iraq.
"American officials, wherever around the world that they encounter a problem which they fail to resolve, instead of accepting that, they prefer to accuse others," he said. "I'm very sorry that, because of the wrong decisions taken by American officials, Iraqi people are being killed and also American soldiers." // Copyright 2007 by United Press International
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