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Iran's President Mahmound Ahmadinejad is to leave for New York on Sunday to address the UN General Assembly, despite calls in Washington for him to be banned from the gathering, his office said.
The president will give his third speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, before returning to Iran on Saturday, a presidential aide, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
He did not give further details on the president's itinerary while in the United States, Iran's arch enemy.
The White House said the US State Department has issued a visa to Ahmadinejad but rejected his latest offer of a public debate with President George W. Bush at the United Nations.
US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday called for Ahmadinejad to be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and called on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to revoke Ahmadinejad's invitation.
"If President Ahmadinejad sets foot in the United States, he should be handed an indictment under the Genocide Convention," Romney wrote in a letter to Ban.
He complained Ahmadinejad had "spoken openly about wiping Israel off the map, has fueled Hezbollah's terror campaign in the region and around the world, and defied the world community in its pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities."
Last year, at the General Assembly meetings, Ahmadinejad launched a scathing attack on the United States and Britain, accusing them of manipulating the world body to deny his country the benefits of nuclear power.
Ahmadinejad to leave for New York Sunday
he should drive a cab in, nobody will notice
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" B. Franklin
Oh you mean that his entourage isint going to claim that the U.S. would not allow him into the country this time?
Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.
Omon, you live in New York. Please, do us all a favor. I think you understand.
In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea
oh let him come.....we need jokers like him...!!!! i cant wait to hear another chavez sulpher speech!!!!!1
Time for another "dog and pony" show at the UN!
Khruchev, Castro, Chavez and now A Jab!
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
I presume he will bang the podium with his shoe and declare, "We will bury you".
John
I absolutely agree with Romney: immediate arrest and jail the instant that abomination fouls US soil with his noxious presence. We owe him a debt of honor from almost 30 years ago.
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
His mere presence at that site would have cast scorn on every single innocent victim of that terrible day.
What unmittigated hypocricy to even ask!
New York: Iran's leader can't visit ground zero
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted to visit ground zero
New York City officials said no because site is under construction
The United States considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism
Leaders call request "audacious," "unacceptable"
NEW YORK (CNN) -- City officials in New York have denied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center next week, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The controversial, outspoken president wanted to "pay his respects" and lay a wreath at the site of the 2001 al Qaeda attacks during his visit to the U.N. General Assembly, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, citing Iranian officials.
But workers are rebuilding the foundations of the site, "and it would not be possible for him to go where other people don't go," Kelly told CNN.
Iranianofficials have not put in any additional requests to visit the public platforms at ground zero, police spokesman Paul Browne told CNN. But, he said, "If there were a further request, we'd reject it" because of security fears.
The Iranian mission to the U.N. said it had not been told of the decision, but in a statement issued Wednesday evening, it called the rejection "unfortunate."
Iran is ruled by a Shiite Muslim government hostile to the fundamentalist Sunni al Qaeda.
Ahmadinejad's predecessor at the time of the September 11 attacks, Mohammed Khatami, condemned them, and Tehran cooperated with the U.S.-led campaign to topple al Qaeda's Taliban allies in Afghanistan that followed.
The United States and Iran have not had formal diplomatic relations since 1980 after Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and held Americans hostage for 444 days.
The United States considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism and has accused the country of meddling in Iraq and in Afghanistan where U.S. troops are battling Taliban and al Qaeda remnants more than six years after the September 11, 2001, attacks.
More than 2,700 people died in the attack on the World Trade Center, when al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked passenger jets into the twin towers. A third jet hit the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers resisted their hijackers.
"It is appalling that President Ahmadinejad, one of the world's leading sponsors of terror, would find it appropriate to visit this hallowed ground," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.
Several presidential candidates also condemned the requested visit. Hillary Clinton, the New York senator and Democratic front-runner, called the request "unacceptable." Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a leading Republican, called it "shockingly audacious."
And former Mayor Rudy Giuliani -- whose leadership after the attacks is the cornerstone of his GOP presidential bid -- said that "under no circumstances" should Ahmadinejad be allowed to visit the World Trade Center site.
Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the site should not be "used as a photo op."
Numerous critics have attacked Ahmadinejad's hard-line anti-Israel stance and his insistence that Iran will defy U.N. demands that it halt its production of enriched uranium. Iran insists it is producing nuclear fuel for civilian power plants, but Washington accuses Tehran of trying to produce a nuclear bomb.
CNN Correspondent Deborah Feyerick contributed to this report.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
Its all over the news in NYC here, I just look at the local papers and they are all against this really strongly.
Those who can't change become extinct.
Let the President of Iran, a country that has killed over 150 US soldiers in Iraq, openly assulted a US embassy, attack Israel via proxy at every chance it has had and will possibly be at war with America with in the next few years, speak at a college in front of young students? A man who played a role in the US embassy crisis in 79 and denies the Holoucaust?
He shouldn't be allowed on US soil.
I don't like him, but I'm with Mitt.
Just invite him to an alcoholic party, film it, and send it to the ayatollahs.
Then grab some pop corn and enjoy the flogging.
Hmmm. Devious. I see a new Harry Parka in the making.Originally Posted by entropy
Semper in excretum. Solum profunda variat.
He's killing my friends, and he's trying to kill my family. I want him dead. He's as evil as any enemy as we've ever faced, and that some Americans will welcome him is beyond disgusting.
THIS is why I'm mad as hell: the entire world has lost its collective mind, the world is up-side down. The bad is called good, the good is called bad, and people can't seem to see evil when it's slapping them across the face.
He should be KILLED, and yes, I'm serious.
Last edited by Bluesman; 23 Sep 07, at 10:59.
"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it, and if one finds the prospect of a long war intolerable, it is natural to disbelieve in the possibility of victory."
- George Orwell
Bluesman, whilst I certainly do understand your sentiments, killing him will only make the fool a matyr and the US a pariah in the eyes of millions of other fools many of whom are our own countrymen/women.
I am sure you understand Armadininin,,,Armadenibad,,,,armad,,,(aw stuff it),, Monkey man, is nothing more than a sock puppet for the mad Mullahs.
Imagine what that feels like with so many hands up your nether regions,,, enough to make a glass eye misty.
Let him come to New York and make a complete goose of himself, ar la Chavez and let him speak at the university and hopefully the kids there will tear him a new a**hole.
The kids in a university in Tehran recently did a job on him at great risk to themselves so I think the Persian people have just about had a gutfull of him, the Mad Mullahs and the rest of the mongrels dragging their country into conflict.
If the Persians themselves don't do the job then the only others that realy have a legiitimate reason thus far are the Israelis who have been and continue to be threatened with extinction.
Help for the Israelis from the rest of us would certainly be appropriate.
Failing all of the above, I have a VERY nice Sako complete with 50X target scope.
What do you want to do?, pull the trigger or range me?
Cheers
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