Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday hit out at his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, saying the people of France deserved a better leader.
Ahmadinejad, who was traveling to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting, was asked to comment on recent remarks by Sarkozy, in which he said the people of Iran deserved better leaders.
“This Mr. Sarkozy is meddling in the internal affairs of our nation,” Ahmadinejad told France 2 television in Paris, according to AFP.
“I too have a similar view. The French people deserve better than their current leaders,” he added.
Sarkozy, who had voiced criticism of Iran’s violent crackdown on protesters following June’s disputed presidential election, said on 31 August that he admired the courage of the Iranian people, and said they deserved better leaders.
Source: Agence France-Presse
