i mean while in pakistan the country's capital has been placed on its highest alert level following reports of terror. and in egypt the country's military has ordered the former deputy chief of staff of ousted president morsi to remain under arrest for two more weeks now facing murder charges the appeals court has also set a date for the trial of the muslim brotherhood officials who are accused of inciting violence in egypt has been embroiled in chaos since the military coup with thousands of morsy supporters define the government's calls to abandon their sit in protests. well it's been a pleasure having you with us here at hot seat today just a moment on sophie shepherd not say she sits down with iran's of former president with that image on a flight from moscow it sounds. wow

revolutions in the middle east should get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of molotov cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government reside until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country

but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us use desires but that's just my opinion. right on the street. sir st louis and i think the church. on our reporters with their. instrument. to be in the lead on the lead.

hello and welcome to soviet co i'm so crew shevardnadze and today our guest is not . outgoing president where looking at the legacy of his two terms in office and asking for his own estimation of things achieved. eight years in power it's time up for a rainy and president mahmoud ahmadinejad's but has he done is or will he be proudly remembered it was his ambition realised and was it worth the sacrifice is his country made for the status of a nuclear state and his own voice in the face of powerful players was ahmed in

a jam truly the choice and the voice of his people or a puppet in the hands of the clerics have his wishes come true as he would reach the destination he says now for iran's power is going president mahmoud ahmadinejad's. talks to aussie mr ahmadinejad's your presidency is 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 presidencies main achievements. and divorce is facing economic recession and. and to care and economic crisis is an international ones and it has adversely affect the over countries also iran let's not forget that iran has been under a unique natural one sided unfair sanctions and this has been on president it so severe. and despite

a due to 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 world. but scientifically iran was ranked thirty second and now we are one is ranked fourteenth. in terms of scientific progress so. we 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 so we came to this space iran launch 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 the beginning of the victory of this nomic revolution have opposed this huge 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 are all but now. they cannot do this there is no domination by that and 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 war's seventeenth largest economy. but before that before my presidency we were twenty seconds this is the twenty second largest economy out of work 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. y.c. . that there is all this propaganda against if you're in significance. why are they going into a lot of trouble. because they're doing this because we are influential because you're affecting our daughters. that is why they are putting pressure on us iran is like a culture. persian persia is like a contrary 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. who is 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 his 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 position 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 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 fault that this is going to continue. to claridge's in iran. are not like one classification one distinct classification of the society just like other people. have different views different inclined nations i mean. it is not like this that the clerics are like was distinct classification of people one party in iran. many clerics. who are trolls my governments they are supporters of my government. would you say you were able to do everything you wanted in the say or in this year's theme you pushed your policies and you didn't have any obstacles from the clergy. which is no no 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 different to political groups is 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 radio 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 or some obstacles you the conditions should be provided yes i do believe that. i have achieved greatness great success in it's in achieving my wishes and my dentist has made some opposition because this is a free society people express their views and their mind. 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 us side. 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 then that that is not right we have dialogue is sure to have to gain understanding is to resolve differences it is not 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 us. but other side was not ready only there are other times when there are claiming that there are going to have a dialogue with us because but to contend this is very not. right for us it was a. so we didn't accept it but only no i think dialogue is a good thing and alternately we have no choice but to have a dialogue you know the latest and i 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 we are being blocked it is not difficult to do to take any contra measures defensive measures. yes naturally. i would call it soft war going on into 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 why it was attacked but they defused it they could counterattack to our banking system has been under attack. we defended ourselves. vital networks electricity water networks have been attacked yes it has become second nature to us this is

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well go back to sophia and the revolutions that swept the arab world seemed so implausible but the fact that there's leaders like will barack ben ali qaddafi where were thrown how safe to the ruling elite in iran few would talk to the outgoing president over don mahmoud ahmadinejad from the beginning i believe that the people of this country. are like. the rest of the people in the world they want to have a better life that is they want to have a better yes life conditions after freedom and justice they want to vote for the happiness that you know it's that they want they were looking for an opportunity to change the situation. but it was like that i mean it's happened so fast. and our country. i think that's it i think that this was not really. i think there was a kind of it was. there was

a kind of. it's just something i don't want to get into this issue this situation because neither of these countries have achieved yet achieved to a superlative peace we hope that they will ultimately but he said that in iraq so. no ruler should feel safe in jail no nover in the world that just say no because you shifted to the humane society or the community special are moving forward they want to achieve perfection when you share their demands have not been fulfilled can you show me a city any wish to keep our bridge one hundred satisfied us or is it they say something like we are just the life that we're living is ideal we don't know if we just think you know i think he's here manatee is it as a mutual a long way to go through the can you can give me an example of

a place where justice is that esther fully know couldn't do it that's what you really want to do electrical with celtic governments say that it has. a plan 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 i get it. unless we do my duty on this he cares about this really respects the rights of the people i'm not saying that mistakes are not made yes maybe there might be some rebellious just want to serve everybody should be careful. should try to listen to people to to stay true to justice to have it this is something that this is something universal each christmas is that 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 off to assad is because the ultimate target is you and iran to isolate you because he is your ally in the region. this is true the issue of syria is very complicated. and you see the illiteracy if you see. i mean that's where we say syria and israel comes to our mind immediately dispatched to 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 a right of every nation to enjoy freedom and see justice. limited to the good of the show that everybody should have the riot. free choice they should be able to shoot. in lex's routers themselves this is that you look at the most basic principle and that's the real harm in syria the same thing should happen . to are two things the two methods you should now change or suit

one is militarism or the method of war. and want to come to power militarily i think that is wrong we have reached i think that is wrong but jang the good anybody who comes to power should be militarily jangle good tech means that he approves of the wars of armed conflicts especially in the. military if we were trying to trees and wish to our different ethnic groups or different clans to get at that there is another method that is national. reconciliation and everybody should all there should be free election people who choose their dissent and everybody who is allegedly respected by everyone i think it is a second method works as the right one for every viewer especially for syria. this

shipley one for yes i do agree with just said somehow the westerners don't want the syrian issue to come to an end. of the food they are developed person to object first to the. this crisis is in their favor is in the favor of the zionist regime has provided the zionist with the historical opportunity. yes it's come to this for twenty years and they are. going. for twenty years but before that they felt that there are other precious. egypt and libya and syria that are conflicts in all the regional centers so nobody is paying attention to them so they can rest in peace which is for the second thing is that under the pretext of the syrian question they want the crisis

to spread out country is. going on to turkey we will do because they want to affect the whole region after a new middle east they want to do this through. 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 and one 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. largest with 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. use

it i mean nuclear weapons they're useless anybody can do you think anybody can use it. has most of the nukes in the word can if used this kind of use it's. just. as cheap. human society. at large are well over at this one that doesn't have to look good because it is so twentieth century even not the people of the us are going to allow the government to make use of that it is the most brutal most inhuman weapon that can be used against others. iran throughout history has always been a defender. and has always used conventional this issue it has never used chemicals watch this iran is still defending itself it is mostly a political it's a cultural defense we don't need any nuclear weapon just. iran is not

a country that has been fabricated or has been created to do it on demand no it was not like they said there were some people who had rulers in there has they went to the map and they put some lines on it and they said that we had this is iran. actually but it's cannot be said about design it's regime you know nobody watches russia is iran russia thousands of years which we are rooted in these territories so we don't need just such recognition as there are some other . fabricators favor to occupy some other territories and they just change the names . and the people there are feeling secure because they don't belong here they have come from other places yes those. nuclear weapons not i remember that i was having this conversation to 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. yes this national why should it have assessed such well but because i. have some might want to have yes. defense in defending ourselves against the zionists we don't need such weapons which would. i think. are enough didn't he why is rational people in the us who would not allow the zionist regime to do such a stupid think that the. nuclear facilities are not going to go away with bombardments as if they are in the heads of our so the scientists is or that if we have it it is something we have localized that you are so there is a one million two hundred thirty three thousand was not there is a square kilometers the vastness so are going to bomb every variant so yes.

this is psychological work of course we all ready to defend ourselves. if. this was the wrong mahmoud ahmadinejad who is presidential term ends on august the fifth thank you for being with us and i will see you in the next edition of. american so long see latin in south america as part of their geo political backyard stereotypes die hard but new realities on the ground give reason to believe this continent is on the rise and determined to control its own fate regardless of

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