June 11: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends a flag raising ceremony during his visit to the Shanghai World Expo in Shanghai, China.
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SHANGHAI -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday dismissed new sanctions aimed at punishing his country for failing to halt part of its nuclear program, calling the latest U.N. resolution "a worthless paper."
During a visit to China's financial hub of Shanghai, Ahmadinejad also accused the United States of hypocrisy for leading the drive to censure Iran and accused President Barack Obama of pursuing the same "bullying" tactics of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
The resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday "is a piece of paper. A worthless paper," Ahmadinejad said at a news conference while visiting the World Expo in Shanghai.
Rather than impeding Iran's development, the resolution "may have an impact on our country by expediting the pace of our development," he said.
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