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Tue, 11/30/2010 - 16:32
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President Ahmadinejad answers reporters’ questions after press conference

Tehran, Nov 30, IRNA – Following the end of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Monday press conference several news media reporters who had not found time to question him gathered around him posing their queries.

President Ahmadinejad answered some reporters’ questions beyond his conference schedule there.

A female reporter thanking the government for the special attention it pays to family affairs asked him about the issue to which Ahmadinejad replied: “In the 4th Development Plan there are nine cultural axes, one of which is the family affairs.”

In reply to another reporter question regarding policies the government pursues to prevent the immigration of provincial residents to Tehran, President Ahmadinejad said, “We cannot build a wall around Tehran, but we have devised economic strategies aimed at encouraging the people to emigrate from Tehran to other cities, not vice versa.”

A reporter created the press conference director, Morad Enadi’s way of managing the session, asking Ahmadinejad to do something serious to observe justice in allocation of time to the reporters in such future conferences. The president, too, directed Enadi to allocate the beginning of the next press conference’s time to those reporters who had not had the opportunity to pose their questions this time.

In reply to a queston by a foreign reporter on the role of the stuxnet virus in halting the work of Iran’s centrifuges, the president denied the existence of such a problem.

Answering another question on the issue of buying arms and military equipments from North Korea, President Ahmadinejad said that it was a lie and irrelevant. Those who count on spreading such rumors are wasting their time.”

Regarding the question on the two imprisoned US “hostages” in Iran, Ahmadinejad immediately interrupted the reporter’s question arguing that the US inmates are not hostages, but violators of Iran’s borders, adding, “Their crime is pursuable at courts of justice.”

An Arabic news agency’s reporter protested when Ahmadinejad was leaving for the reason that all foreign reporters except him had been given time to pose their questions at the conference.

The president asked him what his question was to which he said, “Some Saudi officials are linked with the heads of the Great Al-Iraqiyya Coalition of Iraq and are after launching a second Al-Qadesiyya War against Iran. He added that the Saudis have invested billions of dollars on the project, asking President Ahmadinejad’s opinion.

In reply to the above question, the president said that Iran’s ties with Saudi Arabia are good, adding that “We are bothers with the Saudis and must remain so."

He reiterated, “If Saudi Arabia would cooperate with Iran the entire problems of the Islamic world could be resolved, while together we can even urge the Zionist regime to get back to its initial stage.”

Ahmadinejad reiterated, “There would be no poor folks in the Islamic world if Saudi Arabia would cooperate with Iran, while the region would get safe and secure.

President Ahmadinejad pointed out that he would not focus on any particular personality, stressing, “The matter you pointed to – a second Al-Qadesiyeh – is meaningless, because Iran and Saudi Arabia are friends and this friendship is even going to be further strengthened.”/end

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