TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned US President Barack
Obama against extending the war in Afghanistan to neighboring Pakistan.
“I warn Mr. Obama to take a lesson from [former President George W.] Bush’s
fate and to stop expanding the war. The best option for him is to withdraw his
forces from our region,” Ahmadinejad said. The Iranian president made the
comments at a news conference in Istanbul on the sidelines of the Fourth UN
Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
“If he (Obama) makes a wrong decision, he will suffer an even worse fate than
that of Bush,” Ahmadinejad added. He went on to say that the US invaded the
region after the 9/11 attacks under the pretext of the campaign against
terrorism, but there has never been an independent investigation into the
events. The Iranian president also underlined the need to reform the UN
structure, noting that the nations of the world have come to the conclusion that
the UN must be reformed since the major powers currently control it.The five-day
UN summit with 48 leaders of the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) began
in Istanbul on Monday to discuss a new 10-year aid plan to help lift nations out
of poverty. At the UN conference, the Iranian president presented Iran’s
six-point plan for reforming the ’unjust’ world system. The UN holds a Least
Developed Countries conference every decade. France hosted the first two LDC
conferences in 1981 and 1990. The third was held in Brussels in 2001. Online
