Iran's Ahmadinejad lashes out: "The US is a hollow superpower."

Iran's president Ahamadinejad lashed out at the United States and vowed to resist the pressure of "bully countries" in a rally today in Bushehr, site of Iran's nuclear reactor.

In a speech to thousands of supporters hours after President Bush's State of the Union address, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad derided the United States as a "hollow superpower" that is "tainted with the blood of nations" and said Tehran would continue its nuclear program.

"Nuclear energy is our right, and we will resist until this right is fully realized," Ahmadinejad told the crowd.

"Our nation can't give in to the coercion of some bully countries who imagine they are the whole world and see themselves equal to the entire globe," he added.

The crowd responded with chants of "Nuclear energy is our right!"

Apparently this was a reaction to President Bush's State of the Union address.