2006-06-28 05:25:37 · 9 answers · asked by kosar 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
mid december 2005. I don't speak Farsi so I'm assuming the editors of the L.A.Times and CNN got it right. Big assumption.
here's an article from CNN - "based on how many sources reported it, it looks like he did say it and that he really is a moron of great proportion" Politically in his country it's like saying your going to cut taxes - gets you all kinds of support.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/
2006-07-09 07:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by jjttkbford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably, the first statement of Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad regarding the holocaust took place during a speech he made before university students in Tehran, there was a conference last May, a conference where the main topic was Zionism.
But he says his comments were misunderstood by the international community. In my personal opinion, those comments can be dangerous, because they can be interpretated in many ways. Anyway, that was not the first time an Iranian leader speaks out against the State of Israel, let's remember that it was that same conference, where Ahmadi Nejad said Israel should be "wiped off the map". This kind of rhetoric was the same rhetoric used by their former leader, Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
2006-07-10 10:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by LG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dec. 14, 2005 is the first reference to the Holocaust "myth" in his speeches. Up until that time there was a lot of rhetoric, and the Holocaust was mentioned, but not in terms of it never having happened.
Here's a link to an article about it with many of his comments quoted.
http://www.payvand.com/news/05/dec/1109.html
2006-07-09 11:03:47 · answer #3 · answered by Rockmeister B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there a monopoly of being loved? Is it that in the time of uncomplicated phrases Presidents of so-suggested as superpowers have the privilege to be loved through skill of people around the global? Come off it the global is a lot higher than the u . s . and there are a hell of endless people accessible playing the freedom to love whoever they favor.
2016-11-15 09:07:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but several world leaders and politicians have made similar comments. I guess the world takes notice when your almost nuclear-capable.
2006-07-08 19:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by cognitively_dislocated 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He never did, in fact. It was another public figure without relevance.
2006-07-08 15:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by tetraedronico 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he had no sobject for speech
2006-06-30 01:50:37 · answer #7 · answered by hamid h 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He said it was mistranslated. and I dont know when it was.
2006-06-28 05:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by zun-noon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
please explain to me why we should care what terrorist have to say.
2006-07-12 02:23:23 · answer #9 · answered by kevinrmortensen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋