Posted on 09/03/2006 2:46:08 PM PDT by blam
Iran Snubs Annan Over Nuclear Program
Sunday September 3, 2006 9:46 PM
By NASSER KARIMI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The U.N. chief got little satisfaction Sunday at the close of his trip to Tehran, snubbed by Iran's leader over international demands to stop enriching uranium and ignored in warnings not to incite hatred by questioning the Holocaust.
In a provocative move on the final day of Kofi Annan's two-day visit, Iran announced it would host a conference to examine what it called exaggerations about the Holocaust, during which more than 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis.
The move was sure to draw new international condemnation of Iran's stance on Jews. Hours after the announcement, Annan repeated his displeasure over an exhibition in Tehran of cartoons mocking the Holocaust that was opened as a response to Western caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.
``I think the tragedy of the Holocaust is an undeniable historical fact and we should really accept that fact and teach people what happened in World War II and ensure it is never repeated,'' Annan told reporters.
He commented after a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the hard-line Iranian leader didn't accompany the U.N. chief to the news conference.
Ahmadinejad has drawn strong condemnations around the globe for calling the Nazis' slaughter of Jews a myth and saying Israel should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States.
The Holocaust exhibit is being held to underline outrage over Prophet Muhammad caricatures in Western media. Islam forbids picturing Muhammad at all, but Muslims also were angered by the cartoons' negative tone, such as one showing the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
Annan first raised his concerns about the exhibit during...
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He has "concerns" to raise about a ravingly anti-Semitic side-show? What a twit. Sadly, what a powerful twit - in the West. Why Europe is busy kissing this guy's toes, I will never know.
Ahmadinejad handed him his a$$ and showed him to the door...
Hey Iran! You'll have to do more than just snub a crooked and incompetent internationalist to get on America's good side.
I don't get it either. The U.N. is a corrupt anti-semetic organization, they will never be up to the challenge. We go to them and we get burned every time. It is useless to ever go to them again in this very serious war we face. Yet we do. I am stunned in disbelief!
We have to get serious about the fact this as a religious war against Islamofascists. It is obvious the world does not want to face this reality. America might just put Democrats back in power, and that is like screaming "Appeasement!" and "Surrender!" to the Islamofascists. I'm afraid it is going to take another 9/11--it is not a question of if, but when--to wake people up. A lot more deaths! It pains me to know that a majority of Americans want to go back to the 90's Clinton era of being fat, dumb, and happy.
Pee-wee Herman could make Kofi and the U.N. pee their collective pants.
Ahmanasholeinastraighjacket ....
You craked me up!
I'll say this about Iran - they recognize the U.N. and Kofi Annan for what they are - a completely useless organization. America should take a page out of Iran's book.
"This Annan guy will never learn he is one dumb chump."
Mr. Annan holds a position that, in many ways, is similar to that held by British royalty. He may be inept and ineffectual, but his pay, benefits, expense account, and access to the press just go on and on. Not bad for a "dumb chump".
We are cognizant the jihad terrorist instigating Iranian régime will never comply with anything the UN 'mandates' to get Tehran to immediately stop its drive for a nuclear weapons arsenal.
The deadline has pasted. No more 'deadlines'! The Iranian tyrants must be brought down as Saddam was.
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