Iranian president attacks West

NEWLY re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has launched a fierce attack on the West, saying Iran’s enemies had tried to interfere and foment aggression in its disputed presidential vote last month.

“In this recent election the enemy tried to bring the battlefront to the interior of this country... But I have told the enemies... that this nation... will strike you in the face so hard you will lose your way home,” he said. He also maintained major powers could not take away Iran’s right to its nuclear programme.