The stances voiced by the Iranian president during his address to the United Nations General Assembly was a source of pride for the world of Islam, Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said here today.

Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, said that the whole world endorses the righteousness of Ahmadinejad’s address to the US Columbia University.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the US Columbia University underlined the righteousness and truthfulness of the Islamic Republic’s stances.