Ahmadinejad: US Military Weak in Battlefield

Islam Times reports from FNA: "The weakest army in the world is the US army since it has gained no victory in any war," Ahmadinejad said addressing a ceremony in Tehran today to mark the 'Journalists Day'.

He reminded events during the World War II and the US atomic attack on the two Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in which more than 200,000 people were killed, and said while other nations fought and won the war, Americans' share in the victory was nothing but dropping two atomic bombs on Japan.

If the US had not possessed atomic weapons in that era, the country would have not been announced as the victor, the president added, saying that the US has also been defeated in all other wars across the globe, including in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan.

He underlined that some imagine the US is a superpower because they have believed what the western media try to forge in their minds.

Ahmadinejad reiterated that today the world is entangled in a media war and the western media outlets are trying to belittle other countries' progresses and show themselves as advanced countries.

He further pointed to media propaganda as the cutting edge of the western countries, and described media as the most cutting weapon in the world, saying that West's military, economic and political weapons can never have such a great effect.

Ahmadinejad also lashed out at the western media outlets for broadcasting fake reports and lying to the world people about the true nature of certain freedom-seeking nations, and said Western media has always tried to portray justice-seeking nations as inefficient, while they illustrate oppressive and undemocratic states as freedom-seeking.

He also touched on what he called as the western propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic, and said such efforts will not bear fruit.

"Iran is one of the most oppressed countries but the Western media, funded by their governments, depict it as an aggressive nation through different journalistic tactics," Ahmadinejad reiterated.

Iran and the West are locked in a standoff over Tehran's progress in the civilian nuclear technology. Iran says its nuclear program is a peaceful drive to produce electricity so that the world's fourth-largest crude exporter can sell more of its oil and gas abroad.

The US and its western allies allege that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program while they have never presented corroborative evidence to substantiate their allegations against the Islamic Republic.