Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that his country was not worried over the recent U.S. arms sales to the Mideast, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Friday.
"We are not troubled by the U.S. arms sales to this region," Ahmadinejad told Algerian reporters before his trip to the African country next Monday.
"The Americans are trying to strengthen their relations with countries in the region because they understand such kind of relationship has been weaker, so they want to create divisions between our brothers in the region to impose their own will upon them," he added.
Senior Iranian officials have repeatedly slammed at the recent U.S. weapons sales plan to the Mideast, saying this was aimed at spreading fear and worries among countries in the region.
It has been reported that the United States would sell Saudi Arabia 20-billion-dollar sophisticated weaponry to help this country counteract Iran's rising influence in the region.
The United States has relapsed into a deadlock with Iran over its controversial nuclear program, it also accused Tehran of supporting Iraqi insurgents to fight with coalition forces in that war-tortured country. Iran has denied all the allegations.
The new arms deal was seen as an effort to enhance relations between U.S. and its allies in the Arab world.
Source: Xinhua
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