Hmmm... Lets see. He's dedicated to the total annihilation of Israel. Says the holocaust was non existant, and now that 9-11 was phony too. Maybe he's been watching that idiot Michael Moore's movies. He needs to be achmed the dead terrorist, and stuffed for when the commedians old puppet wears out.

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
Wed Apr 16, 6:41 AM ET



TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pronounced Ach ma diner plate)cast doubt Wednesday over the U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks, calling it a pretext used to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.



Although Iran has condemned the 2001 al-Qaida attacks on New York and Washington in the past, this was the third time in a week that Ahmadinejad questioned the death toll, who was behind the attacks and how it happened.

"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.

Under this pretext, the U.S. "attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then a million people have been killed only in Iraq," Ahmadinejad said in the speech broadcast live on state-run television.

On the last anniversary of the attacks, the names of 2,750 victims killed in New York were read aloud at a memorial ceremony.

Last year, Ahmadinejad raised questions over the attacks, saying "what caused it, what were the conditions that led to it, who truly was involved" needed to be examined.

Ahmadinejad has said the attack was a result of "mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S." and the attack should not be turned into another Holocaust "used for slaughtering people."

Although Iran has condemned the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the campaigns toppled the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, two regional threats to Iran.

Yeah well, it's the fault of the foreign policy apparatus of the US for spitting in the faces of the moderate government in Iran after 9/11 and then throwing them in the "Axis of Evil" before Ahmadinejad was elected. Surprise, after that happened the Iranians elected this wacky hardliner. This could have all been avoided, and Khatami could well have still been president right now, but the US got too greedy and now it's reaping what it had sown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_reformists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_le ... on%2C_2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil#Iran

I think Ahmadinejad is a bad president but in the interest of being factually correct, he is not dedicated to the "total annihilation of Israel" nor did he say the "holocaust was non existant".

[font=Times New Roman]I beg to differ. If it was up to me I would bomb the crap out of Iran the second the next american dies from a roadside bomb. I would drop leaflets on an Iranian city and tell the people they have 3 days to leave before the area gets nuked. I guarantee the bombing would stop in Iraq immediately, if this was done. The only problem is that this should have been done from day one. This freakin IDIOT wants the return of the 13th IMAM and believes that if he creates enough Chaos in the world by wars and other methods that it will hasten the return of the 13th IMAM. We are not dealing with a person we are at war with a religion, and we don't even know it or we choose to ignore it. N
Neville Chamberlain tried that strategy and was handed his ass by Hitler.[/font]

Iranian leader denies Holocaust

Ahmadinejad's remarks echo other recent statements
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".
"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said.

On live TV, he called for Europe or North America - even Alaska - to host a Jewish state, not the Middle East.

Israel swiftly denounced the president's comments.

"We hope these extremist comments... will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime," foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP news agency.

Mr Ahmadinejad's latest declaration echoes comments he made last week, in which he said territory should be "provided" in Germany or Austria to establish Israel "if European countries claim that they have killed Jews in World War II".

[font=Microsoft Sans Serif]The president sparked international outrage in October when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map". [/font]

'Europe's fault'

Speaking to thousands of people in the south-eastern city of Zahedan, Mr Ahmadinejad brushed aside criticism of his views, saying it was orchestrated by supporters of Israel.

"If someone were to deny the existence of God... or prophets and religion, they would not bother him.

"However, if someone were to deny the myth of the Jews' massacre, all the Zionist mouthpieces and the governments subservient to the Zionists tear their larynxes and scream against the person as much as they can," he said.

He returned to his earlier theme that Europe should shoulder the responsibility for a Jewish state.

"If you [Europeans] committed this big crime, then why should the oppressed Palestinian nation pay the price?

"This is our proposal: give a part of your own land in Europe, the US, Canada or Alaska to them so that the Jews can establish their country," he said.

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The Iranian president's comments are extremely concerning - and I worry they are also calculated

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Since his election in June 2005, Mr Ahmadinejad has taken a more hardline stance towards Israel in public than his predecessors, and has recently stepped up his anti-Israel rhetoric.

Israel's spokesman said the Iranian president's latest remarks reflected a "perverse vision of the world held by this regime".

BBC Tehran correspondent Frances Harrison says the Iranian press has endorsed the president's views, calling them logical and less passive than the approach of previous Iranian governments.

Condemnation

The foreign minister of Germany criticised Mr Ahmadinejad's remarks as "shocking and unacceptable" and warned they could influence negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.

"I cannot hide the fact that this weighs on bilateral relations and on the chances for the negotiation process," Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

German officials are scheduled to meet their Iranian counterparts on 21 December for the next round of talks over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Talks between Tehran and three European Union nations - Germany, France and the UK - have been deadlocked over Iran's renewed efforts to produce nuclear fuel.

The EU renewed its condemnation of Mr Ahmadinejad's position, saying it had no place in civilised political debate.