Kuala Lumpur - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the United States and Israel would not go to war with his country despite increasing tensions surrounding Teheran's refusal to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme.

Ahmadinejad said he was confident the US and Israel would not launch a war on Iran, adding that the two nations were instead using "propaganda" as a weapon.

"I assure you that there won't be any war in the future," he told reporters in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur where he was attending a summit of developing Muslim nations.

Ahmadinejad also accused US President George Bush of causing the United States to lose the trust of the rest of the world through its intervention in other nations.

"The greatest threat in the Middle East and to countries in the world is US intervention," he said.

He said the next US government would need to make "fundamental" changes to the its foreign policy, or risk totally losing its credibility with other nations.

Teheran has repeatedly refused to give in to demands by the five United Nations Security Council member states plus Germany (5+1) to suspend its uranium enrichment.

Despite threats of further sanctions, Iran has maintained it has a right to acquire nuclear know-how. (dpa)