United Nations (CNN) — Delegates from the United States, the United Kingdom and France walked out Monday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blasted America and Israel at a global gathering on disarmament and offered his own ideas to thwart the spread of nuclear weapons.
Ahmadinejad said he deplores the possession and use of nuclear arms and called the weapons “a fire against humanity” rather than weapons “for defense.”
He said nuclear-weapon states want to “monopolize” the weapons and “peaceful nuclear energy.” His blunt criticism of the West sparked the walkout by the lower-level Western diplomats.
