1938 Alert from AFP, with thanks to JE:
IRAN’S hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, embroiled in a nuclear standoff with Western powers, said overnight that global “bullies” were annoyed by the technological advancement of smaller developing countries.
“People see that the bullies of the world get angry because of the technical and scientific advancement of other countries and they wish to keep the countries and nations backward,” he told a session of an African Union (AU) summit in Gambia at which he is a guest.
Mr Ahmandinejad accused the “bullies” of “victimising hundreds of thousands of people in order to reach the resources, especially energy resources”.