Iran president tirade over US

IRAN’S hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a vitriolic tirade against the United States as he cast fresh doubt on the September 11 attacks.

“They have such nerve to threaten us and say all options are on the table. May the undertaker take you, your tables... away as you have dragged the world in mud,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying in a speech.

“We have hundreds of unanswered questions about the September 11 incident to which they should respond, and we will not back down on this,” Ahmadinejad said in the speech marking the start of a housing project outside Tehran.

“If they claim 3,000 people were killed on September 11, they (the perpetrators) should be identified and executed.”

Last month Ahmadinejad sparked outrage when he accused the US government of involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks in a speech to the UN General Assembly.