CAIRO, Egypt -- Iran's supreme leader gave a ringing endorsement yesterday to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's foreign policy, suggesting that Iran's top authority favors an ultra-conservative hard-line bloc over those seeking rapprochement with the West.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the final arbiter of political, military and religious decisions in Iran's government.
Khamenei, with Ahmadinejad at his side, backed the government's hard-line course.
Khamenei said Iran would continue to develop advanced nuclear technology and rejected the Bush administration's accusations that Iran was meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan.
