The State Department has confirmed that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad applied Wednesday for a visa to enter the United States.

It was reported that it appears the Iranian leader intends to attend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the United Nations in New York, which begins Monday.

Igniting the ongoing dispute regarding the accumulation of low-enriched uranium (LEU) with the western countries, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday has asked Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to start working on nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor.

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday said that resistance was the only way to confront Israel in the Gaza conflict.

"Today the only way to confront these aggressors is resistance in the name of God," Ahmadinejad said during a religious ceremony in Tehran.

London - The following is the full text of the speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad due to be broadcast on British television Thursday evening, as provided by Britain's Press Association:

"In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful.