Iran tells West to drop bullying tone

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that the West should drop its bullying stance against his country and insisted that sanctions imposed over its nuclear programme were having no more than a psychological effect.As God is my witness, the Iranian nation will not give a damn for (your) bombs, warships and planes, he said in a televised speech in the city of Karaj west of Tehran.They say all (options) are on the table. Well, let them rot there. You yourself will rot, he railed, in characteristically fiery language.Ahmadinejad said the United States and its EU allies should talk politely, and recognise the rights of (other) nations, and cooperate instead of showing teeth, and weapons and bombs.His words came as Iran and major world powers -- the five UN Security Council permanent members and Germany -- are poised to revive stalled talks amid high tensions over Tehrans nuclear activities.The United States in particular has repeated that all options are on the table when it comes to Iran, raising the spectre of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.US President Barack Obama, though, has cautioned against bluster in talking about possible war with Iran, saying there still exists a window of diplomacy.The United States and other Western governments suspect Iran is working towards a nuclear weapon capability, although US intelligence services say Tehran has made no decision yet on whether to produce an actual bomb.Iran, for its part, denies it is even researching nuclear weapons.It has twice refused, though, requests by the UN nuclear watchdog to inspect a suspect military site for signs of alleged experiments with explosives of the sort that could be used to trigger an atomic blast.