GEO 436 NEW YORK: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned here on Tuesday that adoption of fresh sanctions by the UN Security Council against his country would doom an improvement in US-Iranian ties. He told a press conference on the sidelines of a nuclear conference that if the UN Security Council were to adopt a fourth round of sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear defiance, “the relationship between Iran and the United States will never improve again.” “The path to that (improved ties) will be shut,” he added, a day after he accused the United States and other declared nuclear-armed governments of using nuclear threats against countries which do not have the bomb. Ahmadinejad also told reporters on Tuesday that he was concerned that the opportunity presented by Barack Obama’’s accession to the White House with the goal of reforming America’’s international image “would be lost.” “It will be a reversal to the Bush era,” he added, referring to Obama’’s predecessor, president George W Bush. Addressing the conference reviewing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty on Monday, Ahmadinejad roundly condemned the United States as a proliferator and manipulator of the NPT to its own ends. “Regrettably, the government of the United States has not only used nuclear weapons but also continues to threaten to use such weapons against other countries, including Iran,” he added. In a sharp response Monday, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton dismissed the Iranian leader’’s charges as “wild accusations” and labeled Iran as an “outlier” country, which like North Korea demonstrates “a determination to violate the rules and defy the international community.” “Iran will not succeed in its efforts to divert and divide,” she added. Iran is under three rounds of UN Security Council sanctions to get it to stop enriching uranium, which can be used to make the bomb, even though it insists its nuclear program is a peaceful effort to generate electricity.
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