Ahmadinejad threatens to revise nuclear policy, rejects freeze

[Behind the Aegis]

Last update - 13:21 11/02/2006
By The Associated Press

The Iranian president on Saturday rejected Western pressure to freeze the country's nuclear program and issued a veiled threat to walk away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

In a speech of tens of thousands of Iranians massed in Azadi Square in the Iranian capital to mark the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution which brought a Muslim theocracy to power, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said that the true Holocaust was happening now in the Palestinian territories and Iraq.

He has declared the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II was a "myth" and that Israel should be "wiped off the map," prompting worldwide outrage

But the focus of his speech was the building crisis surrounding the country's disputed nuclear program.

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