U.S. is turning other countries against Iran: Ahmadinejad

TEHRAN, April 5 (MNA) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that no country would have adopted a hostile attitude toward Iran if the United States had not exerted pressure on it to change its policy on Iran. Ahmadinejad made the remarks during a recent interview with ZDF, which is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz. “If the political pressure by the United States had not been there, no other country would have had problems with Iran because Iran is not a threat to the interests of any European country,” Ahmadinejad stated. Elsewhere in the interview, the Iranian president commented on the approach that the International Atomic Energy Agency has adopted toward Tehran’s nuclear program, saying that the UN nuclear watchdog has not acted “independently” and is influenced by the major powers.