President of Iran Defends His Legitimacy.

With thousands of demonstrators protesting outside that he had stolen Iran's election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stoutly defended his legitimacy here on Wednesday, declaring in a speech that the Iranian ''people entrusted me once more with a large majority'' in a ballot he described as ''glorious and fully democratic.'' In a 35-minute address, Mr. Ahmadinejad leveled familiar attacks against the United States and delivered an oblique rant against Jews, saying it was unacceptable for a ''small minority'' to dominate the politics and economy of much of the world through ''private networks.'' But he did not raise the Holocaust, the subject of another anti-Semitic theme he has used in speeches. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]