"Obama speaks as if the world belonged to him"

In a speech broadcast live on state television Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said President Barack Obama is a "pawn" who has been given a mission to save American and the Zionist regime but “won't be able to do it”.
  
“With the resistance of the Iranian people this person who came to power through deceit (Obama) will leave the political arena with more degradation than the one before him,” Ahmadinejad said, referring to former US president George W. Bush.
  
“For a long time they wanted to create two states in the land of Palestine. One for the Palestinians and one for unlawful occupiers... today they hope that the people of the region will recognize the Zionist regime.” “This satanic plan will fail,” said Ahmadinejad.
  
Referring to a landmark speech last week by Obama on the Middle East, Ahmadinejad accused the American leader of trying to "dictate to the peoples of the region what they should do." Obama "speaks as if the world belonged to him." But "who are you? Who gave you permission to intervene in the affairs of others?" Ahmadinejad asked.

At least one person was killed and more than 20 injured in an accidental blast at Iran's Abadan's oil refinery during which Ahmadinejad was on a visit on Tuesday without being affected.
  
"A technical fault led to an explosion in one of the units of this refinery," Fars news agency said, referring to the oil facility in the southwestern city of Abadan. "The fire was immediately controlled ... The blast did not interrupt the president's program," Fars added, saying heavy smoke had clouded the refinery and billowed across the city.
  
Ahmadinejad was at the refinery to inaugurate a unit that will elevate the nation's petrol production capacity by an extra 4.2 million liters a day.
  
Iran currently produces 54 million liters of petrol per day -- below the consumption level of around 50 million liters a day. Iran, the second largest exporter of crude in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, holds the world's second largest gas reserves.