[Arab Times (Kuwait)] Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in New York that if the United States started a conflict with Iran it would be a war with "no limits," US media reported. "The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious," Ahmadinejad told a meeting with US media owners and editors. "The United States doesn't understand what war looks like. When a war starts, it knows no limits," reports of the event quoted him as saying.
The UN Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program and the United States has called for stringent application of the measures.
Ahmadinejad declared Tuesday that capitalism faces inevitable defeat and called for the overhaul of "undemocratic and unjust" global decision-making bodies. In a speech on the second day of a UN anti-poverty summit, the Iranian leader blamed capitalism and transnational corporations for "the suffering of countless women, men and children in so many countries." Ahmadinejad's speech to the 192-member General Assembly never mentioned the Millennium Development Goals -- the UN targets set by world leaders in 2000 to combat global poverty by 2015 -- that are the focus of the three-day summit called by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to spur their implementation. |