mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad and get answer to his points. i answer the race because i feel the danger in fact i am on gwen to touch of the area of mr. khatami. during the four years he is talking about when i was in power during the lifetime of ali khamenei and if necessary get answer to his plans. i've always loved iran and i think this lot is inherent in all of us. i cannot find any iranian not to be honored to be an iranian who wasn't concerned that the future of iran or the difficulties and problems. we want to create an dayron that is prosperous. the revolution was in fact launched in order to have a great islamic iran and influential iran to be able to lead the pack to and important message to the world but in solving the problems of the country and in order to achieve the proper place i think there are two ways there can be to managements in this regard. one is on the basis of adventurism and instability and raising the slogans, imaginative moves and also superstition on the basis of selfishness, self-centered miss and not abiding by t

neighbors, like turkey and iraq, have called mahmoud ahmadinejad to congratulate his election victory. do you think that these kinds of messages go directly to mrn the streets, or an alliance to the current iranian regime? how do you interpret it? thank you. >> well, i think it is hard to interpret it anything other than standing in complete opposite of with the iranian people stand today. why they do this? ask them. i don't think it is my place to justify or explain why it is that if the government decides to legitimize the regime. all i am telling you is that people in iran will not forget such a key moment, at the time they are risking everything they've got. if we have a long-term vision, the will become more aof an issue to think about that the media. -- more of an issue to think about than in the immediate. >> i would like to ask you about the relations between president hugo chavez and president, in a shot. they have had the privilege -- president ahmadinejad. they have had a privileged relationship over the last two years. my second question is that if you think that iran should have nuclear energy, is in that effort to the world? -- is

mr. pence: madam speaker, i come to this floor at a time of extraordinary moment on the global stage. according to the islamic republic news agencies eag, the official news agency of iran, president mahmoud ahmadinejad supposedly won his election over his primary opponent on 12, june, 2009. but from the very moment that that election result was announced, the international community and the international press called it into question. one of the bay sees for that even before -- bases for that even before the demonstrations took place was that these were paper ballots but that the official government results of the election were announced literally within hours of the polls being closed. various media outlets of the world questioned the authenticity of the results. mr. moussaoui has launched a legal appeal. on the day of the election, mobile phones communications were interrupted. heavy electronic jamming, disturbing broadcasts. news websites were blocked by iranian authorities and they've arrested political journalists. they've had two days of extraordinary unrest. the bbc reported that recent rallies in the streets of tehran were the biggest demonstrations in the islamic republic's 30-y