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. outgoing president where looking at the legacy of his two terms in office and asking for his own estimation of thinks achieved. eight years in power. for a rainy i'm president mahmoud ahmadinejad's but has he done it will he be proudly remember it was his ambition realized and was it worth the sacrifice is his country made for the status of a nuclear state and its voice in the face of powerful players was ahmadinejad's truly the choice and the voice of his people or a pop it in the hands of the clerics have his wishes come true as he reached the destination he says how for iran's outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad's. talks to aussie mr president coming to an end after eight years of your rule iran finds itself in great economic difficulty it is also isolated

geopolitically what would you say are your presidents his main achievements. is facing economic recession. and to care and economic crisis is an international wants and it has adversely affect the over countries also iran let's not forget that iran has been under natural one sided unfair sanctions and this has been on president it so soon. despite a dose of two problems i just told you we have made a lot of economic advancements nothing short of a miracle of course we have problems just like everywhere else in the works. but scientifically iran was ranked thirty second and now we want his rank fourteen. in terms of scientific progress. also speed in the pace of scientific

growth is eleven times more than the average in the words. this means that we are moving forward very fast in the last eight years iran became one today space iran launched iran. manufacture a satellite and launched into orbit iran became a nuclear power in nanotechnology in biotechnology a lot of advancements significant once it's been in and in many fields related to technology we are among the top ten in the world and these are all huge significant advancements which have occurred in the country and under my presidency in the last eight years regarding iran's geopolitical position of. why do you say that iran is isolated are we isolated isolated from what.

the western governments from beginning of the victory of this nomic revolution have opposed this. they never. ever wanted to have interactions and cooperation with us they're doing the same thing after thirty four years we had a great victory because before the revolution they've are dominating our minds our oil but now. they cannot do this there is no domination by them therefore they are angry with us but now we have solved their strongest ties with the rest of the world that we are we are now the worse the seventeenth largest economy. but before that before my presidency we were twenty second this is the twenty second largest economy of divorce and in the next three years it will be fifteen second to me of the work more important than everything. is that iran has become

more influential on the international arena. if we are isolated and why i said. there is all this propaganda against this if you are in significance. why are they going into a lot of trouble. because they are doing this because we are influential because you're affecting odgers. that is why they are putting pressure on us iran is like a culture. persian persian it's like a concert dating back seven thousand years iran is is a popular name around the world amongst the nations yes there are several countries that are against us they don't they don't want to recognize the rights of the iranian nation yes of course. mr rouhani is the newly elected president or you know him personally what do you think of him. he is the president elect of iran is his respected by everyone and everybody will help him. so that he

will be successful in managing their first of the country if the candidate you were supporting wasn't disqualified from the presidential race do you think the outcome of the elections would be different. that's definitely. why didn't you contest like you said you would use disqualification. you know i hadn't said it before that i'm going to contest it or to objects to it yes there is a law and i just obey the law. i remember when you came to power you really came by the help of the masses you were the first president who didn't come by the help of the ruling elite and you positioned your presidency as independent from the clerics eight years later how do you see the clerics now.

you know you see these are some historical religious social matters and issues in iran very complicated ones. iran is the iran. people of iran are cultured people. dating back seven thousand years their civilization runs deep in history yes and because of that iran is very complicated socially and politically. my team will continue to be at the service of the people in the country and if we we are going to maintain our restoring ties with the masses of the people. this is a thought this is my father this is going to continue. to claridge's in iran. large enough like one classification one distinct classification of the society or just like other people. to have different views different inclined nations i mean. it it's not like this that's the clerics

a lot was distinct classification of people one party in iran. many clerics. who are proles my governments there are supporters of my government. would you say you were able to do everything you wanted in the say or in this seriously you pushed your policy and you didn't have any obstacles from the clergy . which. you cannot find anybody who can do whatever he wishes to because we have to act within a framework in russia can mr putin do anything he likes a mentor is this constitution or is this parliament or difference a political group says this public culture a social system in place yes maybe somebody has some wishes and he cannot fulfill them in eight years. yes we have great expectations that everybody has

good grades and wishes but can we hope that they can all be fulfilled and they can all come true. of course not. because it's a material word for some obstacles you the conditions should be provided yes i do believe that. i have achieved greatness great success in it in achieving my wishes and my dearest has been some opposition because this a free society people express their views and their minds. yes the way i do things has been different from others yes naturally i have been opposed mr president why do you think iran never had direct dialogue with the united states in eight years because there were attempts from the from the u.s. side. to you know the principle of dialogue is good in principle to be talking having dialogue is the best way to resolve differences. and

nobody can be opposed to dialogue yes we said from the get go that we are supposed to but under what circumstances. if somebody. comes to you and holds a hammer over your head and tells you forces you to have a daw a lot words have. that that is not right we have dialogue is to try to gain understanding is to resolve differences it is not so sure it should not be used as a method to impose on others it should be it should happen under fair and just circumstances yes there are times are ready to have a dialogue with the u.s. . but other side was not really there are other times when they were

claiming that they were going to have a dialogue with us because but to contend this is very not. right for us it was in . so we didn't accept it but only no i think dialogue is a good thing and alternately we have no other choice but to have a dialogue you know the latest and a say leaks by edward snowden reveal actually that iran was under the heaviest of the electronic controls by the united states did you know about that. last night show this is the world of communications when you get connected to internet venture is the satellite. to communication networks yes there are going to be. problems like that but i don't think it is it was as heavy as they claim it was . right now. i do think that we are being blocked displacement barque maybe it is maybe. it is not difficult to do to take any contra measures defensive measures. yes naturally. i would call that soft

war going on in the virtual work yes. these are doing this if it is necessary we have we have been attacked our electronic communications networks have been attacked no clear and that's where it was attacked but they defused it they could counterattack to our banking system has been. defended ourselves. vital networks electricity water networks have been attacked yes it has become second nature to us this is something. yes. the disadvantages of technology coming cations. attacks we're going to take a short break coming up next here you're thinking. the

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well go back to sophie and co the revolutions that swept the arab world seemed so implausible but the fact that those leaders like well barack ben ali qaddafi where were thrown how safe do the ruling elite in iran feel we'll talk to the outgoing president of it on mahmoud ahmadinejad from the beginning of this leave that the people of those countries egypt would love our life just. like the rest of the people in the work they want to have a better lives they want to have better yes life conditions they're after freedom justice they want to well for you happiness they want they were looking for an opportunity to change the situation it would be sort of atmosphere do we know but

it was like it i mean it happens so fast in our country. i think that yeah i think that this was not really that natural i think there was a kind of it was. there was a kind of manage with it these are illusions or managed to just that is something i don't want to get into this issue is it just because neither of these countries have achieved yet achieved stability and peace we hope that they were ultimately but you said that you what about iraq is no longer should feel safe nor nover in the world not just in illinois question because of that which is the human society and this is community special are moving forward they want to achieve perfection will you share it with their demands have not been fulfilled or is it which can you show me a city in which to keep all our average one hundred satisfied us or is it that they

say something like we are just the life that we're living is ideal we don't want this we just think just wish you know i think he can't hear manatee is it hasn't it a long way to go can't can you can't give me an example of a place where justice is at esther fully no you don't do it that's what you really want to do let's recall that character governments say that it has with a. lot of justice in this society can go can any government say that it has to stay true to all the rights of the people in this so no ruler should feel safe again she bestowed on less that we will not go on the. he cares about this really respects the rights of the people i'm not saying that mistakes are not. yes made there might be some rebellious just want to serve the everybody should be careful. should try to listen to the people to to stay true to justice on the hood this is

something that this is something universal it's christmas good nobody is an example for this. i want to ask you about syria i know you don't like the word isolated geopolitically but many believe that one of the main reasons why the west is so often. is because the ultimate target is you and iran to isolate you because he is your ally in the region. if this is true the issue of syria is very complicated. and you see it in the facilities you see i mean when we say syria and israel comes to our mind immediately dissed you are so into related. i mean you have to look into syria in a historical context of course you have said it before that it is the right of every nation to enjoy freedom. and justice. and limited to advocate for everybody should have the right. free choice they should be able to.

elect rulers themselves to the most basic principle and that's real here in syria the same thing should happen. to are two things the two methods which are now change or soon one is militarism or the method of for. someone to come to power militarily i think that is wrong we have reached i think that is the good anybody who comes to power should militarily jangled to tell him that he approves of. of the world of armed conflicts especially in the. countries english there are different ethnic groups or different clans. there is another method that is national. reconciliation everybody

there should be free election people who choose their descendants everybody who is respected by everyone i think it is a second method works and is the right one for every voter especially for syria. even for yes i do agree with just said somehow the west is don't want the syrian issue to come to an end. of the food they are a little person to object to first continuation of this crisis is in their favor this is in the favor of the zionist regime has provided designers with a historical opportunity to show yes if it continues for twenty years that they are . going to have peace for twenty years but before that they felt that there are other pressures so they say that in egypt and libya in syria there are conflicts in all the regional centers so nobody is paying

attention to them so they can rest in peace which is the second thing is that under the pretext of the syrian question they want the crisis to spread out to the neighboring countries to iraqi lebannon to turkey will do because they want to affect the whole region after a new middle east that they want to do this through their looking at this crisis so i don't think that they want the syrian problem to come to an end swiftly they want it to continue to questions in a while because we're running out of time. do you believe the israeli rhetoric is just rhetoric or they're going to actually hit the iranian nuclear facilities and also do you believe they have a proof that israel has nuclear weapons because netanyahu is certainly things that iran will have two hundred soon. luggage that will mean iran is going to have two

hundred warheads that's what he says yes. this is something that i've said many times before it's not of any use to us to have nukes to how can we use it i mean nuclear weapons they're useless anybody can do you think anybody can use it to us has most of the nukes in the words can if used this really can use its. job. the man has to go in each human society has the. larger well over it this one that doesn't have to look because it is so twentieth century even the people of the us are going to allow the government to make use of that it is the most inhuman weapon that can be used against others. iran throughout history has always been a defender. and has always used conventional.

it has never used chemicals watch this iran is still defending itself if it is mostly a political it's a cultural difference we don't need any nuclear weapons. iran is not a country that has been just fabricated or has been created to do it on demand no it was not like this and there were some people who had rulers and there has they went to the map and they put some lines on it as i said this is iran. it cannot be said about design it's regime you know nobody wants russia. it was on the wash thousands of years for each we are rooted in these territories so we don't need such recognition as there are some others that still fabricates. favor the occupy some other territories and they just change the names. and the

people there. feel secure because they don't belong here they have come from other places yes to me. nuclear weapons not i remember that i was having this conversation with him mr putin in china in order to dismantle all the nuclear weapons in the world to eliminate russia does not want to have such weapons i know that. it's natural why should it. but because others have some might want to have yes and our defense in defending ourselves against the zionists we don't need such weapons which would. i think. are enough that the wise rational people in the us who would not allow the zionist regime to do such a stupid think. the rainiest nuclear facilities are not going to go away with bombardments that is if they are in the heads of our scientists

we have to. have a localized that. iran is a one million two hundred thirty three thousand square kilometers that's the vastness so are they going to bomb every variant yes. this is psychological work of course we are ready to defend ourselves. if. this was the wrong mahmoud ahmadinejad who is presidential term ends on august fifth thank you for being with us and i will see you in the next edition of.

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last remark is so easy to use takes it refused as face on demand to some actually believe in president jets over discredited rumors it may have been smuggling whistleblower edward snowden to safety. this is racial to brought together south america closer than ever with the leaders calling these some washing of the flight offensive i.q. mediating. on clashes resume in cairo with only hours left until the on the deadline expires for the president to resolve the dead and rest but the haunted mall says he's ready to go down fighting if this means protecting his or.