Iran slams US at climate talks, lays claim to nuclear energy

COPENHAGEN

“During this period, oil-rich regions of the world became the theatres of wars and military adventurism that led to foreign domination on their energy resources.”

The United States, he said, gobbled up a quarter of the world’s oil and energy supplies yet had only five per cent of the world’s population.

“Almost 40 percent of the total motor vehicles of the world are moving in this country by occupying and controlling oil wells in other countries,” according to a translation of Ahmadinejad’s speech.

AFP