TEHRAN, Aug. 3 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran's new President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday called for an end to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the world.

    Ahmadinajad made the call in a speech delivered soon after receiving the warrant from Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in central Tehran, attended by top Iranian officials and foreign ambassadors.

    "I will plea for the dismantle of all weapons of mass destruction. Iran wants to see the establishment of lasting peace and justice," Ahmadinejad said.

    He said the elimination was an essential step toward the " justice in global arena", stressing "justice is the foundation for international relation. To reach this goal, we must dismantle weapons of mass destruction."

    The new president vowed that his government would work for justice, prosperity of the Iranian people and devotion to Islam.

    The ultra-conservative former Tehran mayor came into power at the juncture that Iran's nuclear issue was pushed unprecedentedly close to a crisis by Tehran's substantial steps toward resumption of its uranium conversion activities.

    Just one day before his inauguration, the Europe Union and the United States issued a tough warning to Tehran over its threatened restart of a nuclear fuel conversion facility, saying they would refer Iran's nuclear case to the UN Security Council if Tehran takes the action.

    Iran on Monday announced that it would remove seals on the uranium conversion facility in central city of Isfahan under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

    Meanwhile, the new president is facing another challenge, the stagnant economy.

    He gained enthusiastic support from the poor of the country with the slogan of "economic justice", on which he vowed to make the economy robust and reallocate the national wealth, especially the money-incurring oil.

    Therefore, he has been expected to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor and to decrease the unemployment, which is said to be soaring around 16 percent according to the official statistics but has been doubled by some unofficial estimates. Enditem