TEHRAN: Iran’s President claimed the United States will one day apologize and beg Tehran that the two countries resume diplomatic relations, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said the US administration has allegedly become so weakened that it can’t harm Iran in any way.
US-Iran relations were cut after the US Embassy hostage-taking that followed the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which brought Islamic clerics to power in Iran and ousted the pro-US shah.
"A day will come when the (US), its arrogance at its weakest point, will come to Iran and while apologizing, will plead with Tehran that relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran be restored," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying late Sunday.
The United States and its allies have vigorously sought to slow Iran’s nuclear advances through UN and other sanctions out of suspicion that Tehran intends to use a civil program as cover for developing weapons.
Iran denies any such aim and says it only wants to generate nuclear power.
Ahmadinejad claimed that "despite all their threats," the US sanctions and pressures have not hurt Iran.
The Iranian leader’s rhetoric often includes comments seeking to portray Iran as somehow superior to America.
Ahmadinejad has made a slew of different statements, at times urging US-Iranian friendship while at other times predicting America’s demise.
