Ahmadinejad hails Erdogan's nuclear supportPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted which do not the text.Please help [ improve this article] by checking for inaccuracies. on Tuesday welcomed visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's defence of the Iranian nuclear programme. Ahmadinejad, in a statement on the presidential website, said he "appreciates" Erdogan's stand on Iran's controversial atomic programme and on Israel, believed to be the Middle East's sole but undeclared nuclear state. "When an illicit regime possesses nuclear arms, one can not talk about depriving other nations from the peaceful nuclear programme," he said. "Your clear stance towards the Zionist regime had a positive effect in the world, especially the Islamic world, and I am sure that everyone was satisfied," Ahmadinejad added. Erdogan accused Western powers of treating Iran unfairly over its nuclear programme, in a British newspaper interview published on Monday in which he referred to the Iranian president as a "friend". Speaking to The Guardian newspaper, the prime minister downplayed Western concerns that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons as "gossip" and implied that the accusers were guilty of hypocrisy. The UN Security Council permanent members "all have nuclear arsenals and then there are countries which are not members of the International Atomic Energy Agency International Atomic Energy Agency: see Atomic Energy Agency, International. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International organization officially founded in 1957 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. which also have nuclear weapons," he said, apparently referring to Israel. "So although Iran doesn't have a weapon, those who say Iran shouldn't have them are those countries which do," Erdogan said. Erdogan, who arrived in the Islamic republic An Islamic republic, in its modern context, has come to mean several different things, some contradictory to others. Theoretically, to many religious leaders, it is a state under a particular theocratic form of government advocated by some Muslim religious leaders in the Middle at the head of a high-ranking political and business delegation on Monday, is expected to hold talks with the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Turkey, a NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. member, has in recent years improved links with Iran, its eastern neighbour, and has sought to help resolve the nuclear dispute between its Western allies The Western Allies were the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations and part of the military of Poland (from 1939), exiled and Tehran. Iranian-Turkish annual trade stands at around 12 billion dollars and the two states aim to expand it to 20 billion dollars in the next two years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Iran's state news agency IRNA IRNA Islamic Republic News Agency IRNA Iranian News Agency IRNA Israel Resource News Agency . 
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