Asked if Iran sought to be a nuclear power, the president told NBC television: "We are not working to manufacture a bomb. We don't believe in a nuclear bomb."

The comment was released in a partial transcript of the NBC interview, which is to be aired in full later on Monday. Ahmadinejad was speaking through an interpreter.

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