Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday warned the U.S. against military intervention in Libya , saying such action would create a graveyard for its soldiers.

Ahmadinejad, under whose presidency animosity between Tehran and Washington has heightened, said the current situation was completely different to what it was during the tenure of former U.S. president George W. Bush.

"[Bush] used a deception named September 11 to prepare the ground to invade Iraq and Afghanistan ," Ahmadinejad said at a public speech in the western province of Lorestan .

"Be warned that if you intervene militarily one more time, in any of the countries in North Africa or the Middle East, the regional nations will rise and dig the graves of your soldiers," he said, referring to reports that the West was weighing up military option to oust Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

Ahmadinejad, in his speech broadcast live on state television, reiterated all the regional "dictators" were backed by the U.S.

"Today, they (the U.S. and its allies) claim they are confronting dictators...[But] everywhere in the world, in all of the Muslim world, in all of the Middle East, wherever there is a dictator, he is backed by them," he said.

"And now they come and say they want to support the people...but your plans have been derailed...today no one recognizes your claim of supporting the people."

The statement came in response to reports that the West, including the U.S. , was considering the military option against Gadhafi's embattled regime.

However, such intervention was looking less likely on Wednesday after U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "there is no unanimity within NATO for the use of armed force" against Gadhafi.

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