Iran’s president accused the United States and its allies on Wednesday of “hatching plots” to provoke ethnic tensions and destabilize Iran, a day after the government closed a state-run newspaper for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by an ethnic minority. “They (the U.S. and its allies) must know that they will not be able to provoke divisions and differences, through desperate attempts, among the dear Iranian nation,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state-run television. Full Story