Iran Leader on Obama Nuke Rebuke: Back Off
"If I were [President] Obama's adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain making this statement because it is definitely a mistake. It would definitively be a mistake," Ahmadinejad told TIME in an exclusive interview.
Mr. Obama and the leaders of France and Britain demanded Friday that Iran fully disclose its nuclear ambitions "or be held accountable" to an impatient world community. They threatened new sanctions after the disclosure of a secret Iranian nuclear facility.
Ahmedinejad, who TIME characterized as "nonplussed by questions about the newly-revealed plant" said that Iran was not keeping anything from the IAEA. "We have no secrecy, we work within the framework of the IAEA," he said.
"This does not mean we must inform Mr. Obama's administration of every facility that we have,' Ahmedinejad said.
He added: "I'm not the person who should be giving this advice to Mr. Obama because principally, Mr. Obama's mistakes work in our favor. But still, we do not want to see a president of a country like the United States of America to make blunders of the sort, to make mistakes of the sort."