Adnan Farooqui

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that no country would dare to launch aggressive actions against the Islamic republic and demanded that US-led foreign troops leave the region.
"No power will ever dare to think of launching aggression against Iran. Today, Iran is experienced and powerful," the hardliner said in an address to the nation on the anniversary of the breakout of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980.
"Our armed forces are ready to confront the forces of darkness. If anybody wants to shoot a bullet at us from anywhere, we will cut off his hands."
Ahmadinejad, who was to head later Tuesday to New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, demanded that US-led foreign forces leave Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We advise you to go back to your own land. Our region will never accept a lengthy presence of foreigners," the re-elected president, dressed in his trademark light-colour jacket and wearing sunglasses, said in a ceremony attended by top military and administrative officials.
"As you saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, people are against the presence of foreigners. It is impossible (for foreign troops) to have a stable base in the region."
Ahmadinejad's speech was followed by a military parade, an annual event marking the breakout of the war between Iran and Iraq which lasted almost a decade.
About a million people died on both the sides in the war which erupted soon after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.

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