• US, European diplomats walk out on Ahmadinejad UN speech
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[quote] The United States on Thursday led a mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched an outspoken attack on Western nations. The Iranian leader again cast doubt on the origins of the Holocaust and the September 11, 2001 attacks and criticized the United States for killing Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden rather than bringing him to trial. European countries use the Holocaust as an excuse to pay "ransom to the Zionists," he said. The "diabolical" aims of the West are the cause of wars and the financial crisis, Ahmadinejad stormed. In a repeat of walkouts at the United Nations and other international events in recent years, a US diplomat monitoring the speech in the UN General Assembly left halfway through the 20-minute discourse. The 27 European Union nations then followed in a coordinated protest move. "Mr Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people's aspirations for freedom and dignity, but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories," said US mission spokesman Mark Kornblau. A French spokesman called Ahmadinejad's attacks "unacceptable" in a message sent on Twitter, and the German delegation said it was protesting the "crude, anti-American, anti-Israeli and anti-West tirade by the Iranian president." Earlier Ahmadinejad had offered to halt Iran's production of low-enriched uranium -- which can be a stepping stone to producing atomic weapons -- if the West supplied Tehran with the material in return. But he failed to mention either the nuclear crisis with the West or the Palestinians bid to join the UN as a full member state in his speech. Iran, accused by Western nations of seeking to develop anuclear weapon, is under four sets of UN sanctions for refusing for years to bow to international demands to rein in uranium enrichment. "If they give us the 20 percent enriched uranium this very week, we will cease the domestic enrichment of uranium of up to 20 percent this very week. We only want the 20 percent enrichment for our domestic consumption," Ahmadinejad told The New York Times. The European Union also offered to resume the sputtering talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program which broke down in January. But the invitation seemed to cut little ice with Ahmadinejad. Some European countries "still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists," he told the assembly. The United States considered Zionism as "sacred" while they "allow sacrileges and insult" against other religions, he railed. And on the Palestinian issue, he referred only to the imposition of "60 years of war, homelessness, terror and mass murder on the Palestinian people and on countries in the region." The EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton however has offered to resume talks between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group of Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany. The European Union is "ready to resume talks with Iran on building confidence in the nature of its nuclear program, on the understanding that Iran is ready to enter into meaningful talks without pre-conditions," spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, who stepped up to the podium after Ahmadinejad, sharply criticized the Iranian leader. "He didn't remind us that he runs a country where they may have elections of a sort but they also repress freedom of speech, do everything they can to avoid the accountability of a free media, violently prevent demonstrations and detain and torture those who argue for a better future," Cameron said. Across the street from the sprawling United Nations complex, behind steel security barriers, about 400 people rallied to protest the Iranian regime under the banner of the opposition People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran. "While Ahmadinejad is getting the podium at the world's biggest party, the Iranian people are being suppressed," said organizer Ali Safavi. The rally was addressed by guest speaker John Bolton, the mustachioed, hawkish US ambassador to the United Nations under former US president George W. Bush. He spoke of his scorn for the world body, branded Ahmadinejad "the world's central banker of terrorism," and proposed an undiplomatic solution. "I believe it should be the declared policy of the United States to overthrow the regime," he said to cheers.[/quote] What if Ahmadinejad posts on YouTube videos frequently? Because that's what he sounds like, the average YouTube commenter. "new world order holocaust fake jews bad imperialist west umad guys?" [url=http://news.yahoo.com/iranian-leader-makes-nuclear-offer-un-speech-163803498.html]also source[/url]
Not exactly surprised if he was spewing "the holocaust never happened."
Man is an idiot.
what an idiot
He's an idiot
Iran (among others) is like that special child in class that annoys the fuck out of everyone and hinders any proper work from being done, but has to be accepted in anyway.
Can somebody here verify the persian translations of his speech? I've grown to distrust international translations... most notably MEMRI....
What a cunt.
cunt
[QUOTE]Earlier Ahmadinejad had offered to halt Iran's production of low-enriched uranium -- which can be a stepping stone to producing atomic weapons -- if the West supplied Tehran with the material in return.[/QUOTE] "We'll stop making uranium if you give us some!" What kind of logic is that? Nations don't want you making it because they don't want you to [I]have it.[/I]
Not surprised if he's running Iran.
[quote]Some European countries "still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists," he told the assembly.[/quote] How is this denying the holocaust? It's high time the media stopped blatantly lying about what Ahmadinejad says. He's an inflammatory idiot but media that lies is worse.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32433127]"We'll stop making uranium if you give us some!" What kind of logic is that? Nations don't want you making it because they don't want you to [I]have it.[/I][/QUOTE] perhaps a little unfairly
[QUOTE=Lambeth;32433230]perhaps a little unfairly[/QUOTE] I'm not saying whether is or not, just the dumbness of the request.
On the news they showed two people walk out, Wow really a large walkout!
He dresses himself like a hobo.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32433184]How is this denying the holocaust? It's high time the media stopped blatantly lying about what Ahmadinejad says. He's an inflammatory idiot but media that lies is worse.[/QUOTE] they said the same thing about norman finkelstein.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32433184]How is this denying the holocaust? It's high time the media stopped blatantly lying about what Ahmadinejad says. He's an inflammatory idiot but media that lies is worse.[/QUOTE] He is smarter then most world leaders, I'll give him that. He is doing pretty good with Iran at the moment though, their nuclear program and US/Israel hate is going fine.
He didn't deny it here, but he has in the past.
I mean he is pretty much right. The creation of Israel was a slap in the face to the sovereignty of Middle Eastern countries.
[QUOTE=Best4bond;32433331]On the news they showed two people walk out, Wow really a large walkout![/QUOTE] The BBC clip ([url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15028776]here[/url]) shows quite a few people walking out after 2 people (the US diplomats?) leave.
They should have pelted the everloving fuck out him with shoes.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32433882]I mean he is pretty much right. The creation of Israel was a slap in the face to the sovereignty of Middle Eastern countries.[/QUOTE] Even Yemen's?
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32433882]I mean he is pretty much right. The creation of Israel was a slap in the face to the sovereignty of Middle Eastern countries.[/QUOTE] And if he kept the conversation to just that maybe no one would have walked out, but no, he had to bring dumb conspiracy theories in to the talks. Also this is funny: [quote]“Can the flower of democracy bloom from [North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s] missiles, bombs and guns?”[/quote] Probably not, but it also won't bloom with people like you rigging elections and using violence against protests.
Why do we even bother inviting these guys, anyway?
[QUOTE=AzureAngelic;32435149]Why do we even bother inviting these guys, anyway?[/QUOTE] keep your friends close but your enemies closer ~Michael Corleone
[QUOTE=AzureAngelic;32435149]Why do we even bother inviting these guys, anyway?[/QUOTE] They're in the UN? There is a chance he was just trolling the US.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;32433882]I mean he is pretty much right. The creation of Israel was a slap in the face to the sovereignty of Middle Eastern countries.[/QUOTE] Perhaps the Ottoman Empire shouldn't have attempted to take over Europe then.
[QUOTE=GunFox;32436183]Perhaps the Ottoman Empire shouldn't have attempted to take over Europe then.[/QUOTE] An educational burn. Well played, sir.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;32435231]keep your friends close but your enemies closer ~Michael Corleone[/QUOTE] And I think he knows a little more about enemies than you do, pal, because he invented them!
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