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Not heading for war with U.S.: Ahmadinejad

New York: Iran does not need nuclear weapons and is not heading towards a war with the United States, said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on a controversial visit here amid tight security.

The Iranian President, who flew into New York on Sunday, would address the U.N. General Assembly.

His arrival was preceded by what analysts termed a major public relations campaign with the President asserting in an interview in Tehran that neither his country was on a path to war with the U.S. nor was it making nuclear bombs. “It’s wrong to think that Iran and the U.S. are walking towards war. Who says so? Why should we go to war? There is no war in the offing,” he said in an interview on CBS television.

The nuclear bomb is of no use, he said adding, “If it was useful it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union. If it was useful, it would have resolved the problems the American have in Iraq. The time for the bomb is passed.” —PTI

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