During CNN's live translation of a news conference by Ahmadinejad on Saturday, the president was quoted as saying that "we believe all nations are allowed to have nuclear weapons" and that the West should not "deprive us to have nuclear weapons".
The president was, however, using a Farsi word that meant "technology" and not "weapons&q
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"Taking into account CNN's actions contrary to professional ethics in the past years and their distortion of the president's comments during his news conference on Saturday, the activities of the CNN journalist in Tehran will end and no journa
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from CNN will be authorised to come to Iran," a statement from the Iranian culture ministry said.
