Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sharply critical of the United States and Britain in his address before the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, accusing the two nations of using the Security Council only to advance their own interests.
"The question needs to be asked: if the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the UN organs can take them into account?" he asked when he took the world stage at the Assembly, hours after U.S. President George Bush.
"If they have differences with a nation or state, they drag it to the Security Council and as claimants, arrogate to themselves simultaneously the roes of prosecutor, judge and executioner," he added. "Is this a just order?"
The United States and Britain are two of the five permanent members of the security council, with power of veto, as well as France, China and Russia.
Ahmadinejad also reiterated his nation's commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty amid persistent accusations that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons.
Ahmadinejad and his American counterpart have been at odds over Iran's nuclear ambitions -- heightened by the Iranian leader's refusal to adhere to an Aug. 31 UN deadline calling for his country to halt its uranium enrichment program.
The Iranian leader has said repeatedly that Tehran will not yield to international pressure to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Ahmadinejad also had harsh words about U.S. efforts in Iraq, saying "the occupiers are incapable of establishing security in Iraq" and that hundreds of people are killed "in cold blood" ever day.
He also claimed that several terrorists taken into custody by the Iraqi government were "let loose under various pretexts by the occupiers."
"It seems that intensification of hostilities and terrorism serves as a pretext for the continued presence of foreign forces in Iraq"
"The question needs to be asked: if the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the UN organs can take them into account?" he asked when he took the world stage at the Assembly, hours after U.S. President George Bush.
"If they have differences with a nation or state, they drag it to the Security Council and as claimants, arrogate to themselves simultaneously the roes of prosecutor, judge and executioner," he added. "Is this a just order?"
The United States and Britain are two of the five permanent members of the security council, with power of veto, as well as France, China and Russia.
Ahmadinejad also reiterated his nation's commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty amid persistent accusations that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons.
Ahmadinejad and his American counterpart have been at odds over Iran's nuclear ambitions -- heightened by the Iranian leader's refusal to adhere to an Aug. 31 UN deadline calling for his country to halt its uranium enrichment program.
The Iranian leader has said repeatedly that Tehran will not yield to international pressure to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Ahmadinejad also had harsh words about U.S. efforts in Iraq, saying "the occupiers are incapable of establishing security in Iraq" and that hundreds of people are killed "in cold blood" ever day.
He also claimed that several terrorists taken into custody by the Iraqi government were "let loose under various pretexts by the occupiers."
"It seems that intensification of hostilities and terrorism serves as a pretext for the continued presence of foreign forces in Iraq"
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