Ahmadinejad at the UN

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Ahmadinejad at the UN

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the regime he is leading in Iran is a “new model of live for the world.” He spoke on Wednesday evening to a group of U.S. university students and then gave an interview to a Iranian satellite television channel. He delivered a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, considered by many the most controversial of all the speeches he has ever delivered.
The students, about 100 undergraduate and graduate students, were invited to attend an invitation-only dinner and a Q&A session, at the end of which they were given books of theology and hand-painted plates.
The meeting with the students this year was considered very different from the meeting at the Columbia University in 2007, when the school’s president challenged him about the Holocaust, about whipping Israel off the map, and about other issues that made the encounter very tense and sparked large mass protests against him.
Ahmadinejad came to the United Nations General Assembly a day after two American citizens, accused of espionage against Iran and held in custody for two years, have been released by the authorities in Tehran.
In the meeting with the students and in the interview for the Iranian media Ahmadinejad said that the world is in a situation where humanism, Marxism, liberalism and the West can no longer solve people’s problems.
Relying on its culture and civilization, he added, Iran is the only country that can be considered a new model for all the countries in the world.
Another issue the Iranian president spoke about was what he called an attempt of the Americans to hijack the Arab spring. However, he said a very serious movement is under way, that would make the American efforts useless.
When asked about the situation in Syria, Ahmadinejad said that Syrian authorities should engage in talks with the people because nothing can come good out of crackdown.
As for the observance of human rights, he denied, in an interview to a New York Times columnist, that “scores of protestors” were killed during the movement against him in 2009. He said that only 33 people lost their lives, most of them in clashes with the security forces.

Headline in the American Press

At the United Nations he made a very colorful speech in which he include almost all the important issues of the politics, causing the representatives of the United States and other countries to leave the room.
Speaking about the killing of Bin Laden, he criticized the way the Americans did it, and asserted that he should have been brought to trial according to democratic standard.
He slammed the Zionism, denied the authenticity of the 9/11 attacks, demanded that the African families who were taken into slavery centuries ago across the sea be given compensation. He called 9/11 a “mysterious incident” that set the stage for the attacks that followed, aimed at the domination of the Middle East.
He prefaced all the comments he made with a rhetorical question “Who…?” and started his comments with a praise of Allah, saying that all the countries have failed to fulfill their aspirations.
All these comments Ahmadinejad made come at a time when he is weakened at home, after he lost a lot of support in the Middle East because he is seen as a supporter of the regime in Syria, which has been cracking down on people for the last six months.
He also is entrenched in a battle with the clerics, as he wants to maintain the control over the secular part of the Iranian power after 2013, when he is expected to finish his mandate.
The struggle with the clerics was seen as the president announced the release of the two hikers that had been kept under arrest for two years. Soon after, the judiciary, which is controlled in Iran by the clerics, said that the release was not decided yet and that the people should not listen to all those who spread rumors, alluding to the president himself.
Iran has been out of focus for a few months as the countries around it became crumbling under the Arab revolution. At a certain time, Iran attempted to say that the Arab spring was made by Iran and was a revival of Islam in those countries.
When the people in Iran attempted to create a revolution of their own, shouting slogans against the rule of the clerics, the leaders of the Islamic republic renounced that claim.
Iran seems to lose the battle for leadership and influence in the Middle East, as Turkey asserts itself as the new leader in the region, having on its side the Sunni Islam, the cultural heritage, the successful example of Islamic democracy, and the fact that the Arab spring happens on the territory of the former Ottoman Empire.

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