Bush: Iran aid proves we are compassionate

President George Bush has told Iran that US humanitarian aid to earthquake victims should prove that America is compassionate, even though it lists the country as a state sponsor of terrorism.

But, speaking to reporters in southern Texas where he and his father went quail hunting on New Year’s Day, Bush did not change the US public stance towards Iran – a nation he has labelled, along with Iraq and North Korea, as an “axis of evil”.