West will suffer more than Iran, says president

Iran’s president warned the West will suffer more than his country if it tries to stop Teheran’s nuclear ambitions, vowing to press ahead with the programme as the confrontation moved into the UN Security Council.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments on Thursday came as Teheran struck an increasingly threatening tone, with the top Iranian delegate to the UN atomic watchdog agency warning a day earlier that the United States will face ‘harm and pain’ if the Security Council becomes involved.

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