Ahmadinejad: World Without the US

Iran's president will likely view his meeting with Japan's prime minister as a diplomatic coup. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Rome for a United Nations food conference, and he's tried to arrange meetings with various world leaders to show he's not as isolated as his opponents would wish. A spokesman said Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda had urged Ahmadinejad to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions on halting uranium enrichment. The official Iranian news agency had a different take on the encounter, saying Ahmadinejad had told Fukuda that U.S. domination was in decline. "Iran and Japan as two civilized and influential nations should get ready for a world minus the U.S.," he said.