US power declining :Ahmadinejad

Iran’s president says the Tehran Declaration has created a new climate for international relations based on justice and friendship.

“Certain states which had ruled the world for over 60 years believed the future of the world would all be under their control, and that all governments and nations would follow the same path that they had delineated”, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by IRNA as saying in an interview with the United Arab Emirates’ Al Aan TV network.

However, the president added, the Tehran declaration engendered a new atmosphere for independent states to seek fresh relations across the world based on humanity, justice and friendship.

He said Europeans are free to choose whether they would like to regulate their relations under the sway of Washington ‘whose power is in decline’, or they want to have friendly ties with the ‘great’ and ‘independent’ Iranian nation based on mutual respect, which would be in their own interests.

He also refuted allegations that Iran is isolated on the world stage, and added the country has very cordial and wide-ranging relations with all nations, except the Zionist regime of Israel and the US government.

Elsewhere in his remarks, President Ahmadinejad lashed out at the Israeli assault on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla as well as the three-year Israeli blockade of the coastal sliver, adding there are indications that the Zionist regime is going to strike Gaza again.

He urged Arab countries to sever ties with Tel Aviv.