Qom, 2007 Sep 6, IRNA
 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday that education is the best field for women's social presence.

"The best and most beautiful scene for women's social presence is education and training. Such a presence can not be compared with anything else and that's what mankind is in dire need of it," said president Ahmadinejad in an address to the sixth annual meeting of the principals of women seminaries.

Ahmadinejad said the key to economic progress is training elites and intellectuals.

He called for renewal of the educational methods, tailor-made to the social and pedagogical needs.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Ahmadinejad said Iran is engaged in a sort of superficial and nuclear battle with the superpowers but the main reason for that is who is going to be the ruler.

"Our struggle with the superpowers is over nuclear problem and some superficial issues. Our main battle with them is due to our not considering any right of sovereignty for them and deeming them as the usurpers, even if the powers distribute money and wealth among the public."

He went on to say, "They know quite well that the Islamic Revolution wants to prepare the ground for materialization of the promised `big event' (reappearance of the Imam of Age); that's why they try to take precedence in campaign against us. We are against rule of the non-righteous individuals. Clashes today are only a pretext and they confront us because the revolutionary Iran aims a global government and a genuine Islamic culture so as to gain a loftier position worldwide. As for the nuclear issue, (I should say) thanks to them the issue served as a medium for Iran's moving to a yet higher position," announced Ahmadinejad.