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Tehran-Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country should "thank Allah" for any further sanctions the United Nations Security Council may approve against it."The more sanctions imposed on us the more we should thank Allah. The sanctions show the weakness of those who approve them," Ahmadinejad told journalists in Tehran. He was speaking ahead of a meeting of the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany on Friday in the US city of Washington D.C. on Friday to debate a planned fourth round of UN sanctions against Iran over its uranium enrichment programme. Iran has continued to enrich uranium, claiming it has a sovereign right to civilian nuclear power under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The US and other western powers suspect that Iran may be covertly developing atomic weapons. The UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei in a damning report on Monday stated that Iran has repeatedly blocked an investigation into its uranium enrichment programme and is continuing to enrich uranium. Ahmadinejad once again attacked the UN Security Council, whose permanent members are Britain, the United States, Russia, France and China."It only represents the interests of a few countries - not those of the international community," Ahmadinejad said."The idea of a 'greater Israel' is dead but also that of a country called Israel," he stated."All those who have occupied Palestine should return to where they came from and give back the Palestinians their land."As in the days of Noah...
