Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a meeting with members of the Church of New York, said that the mission of all prophets was to direct man to perfection.
Concerning slogans such as "Down with the US" raised by Iranians, he said that there was no cause for anger as they are not addressed to the American nation but to the aggressive, unjust, warmongering and bullying US policies.
According to a report published Thursday by IRNA, the Iranian president stressed that the Iranian nation respects the American people and wish them prosperity, happiness and a good life. In this relation, he referred to the offer of the Iranian nation of help to the American nation when the country was severely devastated by the Katrina storm in its south which the US Administration rejected.
Replying to another question about the reason for his dismissal of the Holocaust and its repercussion, he clarified that Iran respects all religions and peoples but does not preclude it from questioning propaganda promoting an official party. "In reaction to the three questions we raised about the Holocaust, instead of getting rational responses we received nothing but hue and cry," he added.
