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The Iranian whose name cannot be spelled gave a speech at the UN this evening but his speech differed quite a bit from the transcript.

President Lee C. Bollinger of Columbia University and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met Monday on a field of rhetorical battle at Columbia. Bollinger opened the proceedings, to which he had invited Ahmadinejad, by presenting a series of sharply-worded questions. Bollinger, normally a genial, soft spoken man who is always courteous and deferential to his guests, was in a totally different mode. His voice was hectoring and bullying. He included in his litany of questions provocative and insulting statements about his guest. Bollinger's change of style was, I believe, to blunt the enormous criticism that ensued following Columbia's invitation to...

Queer Eye for the Iranian Guy Woos Ahmadinejad by Scott Ott (2007-09-25) — Producers of the new BravoTV series “Queer Eye for the Iranian Guy” said they’re close to inking a deal with Islamic Republic President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to appear in the season opener. While it’s a well-known fact that there are no homosexuals in Iran, the network plans to import them to Tehran from the United States in order to give Mr. Ahmadinejad “a radical, extremist makeover.” During the course of the show, the Iranian leader will be “fundamentally transformed head-to-toe” by a group of homosexual men known as...

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose moderately tougher sanctions against Iran, hoping to send Tehran a strong message that it will grow more isolated by refusing to suspend nuclear enrichment. The 15 members of the Security Council approved a ban on Iranian arms exports and a freeze of the assets of 28 additional people and organizations involved in Iran's nuclear and missile programs. About a third of those are linked to the Revolutionary Guard, an elite military corps. "This resolution sends an unambiguous signal to the government and people of Iran ......

Top News Story Ahmadinejad “predicts” Israel's soon disappearance and destruction YNet News reported that Ahmadinejad said of Israel "we will soon witness its disappearance and destruction.”   But Blair seeks a new “partnership” with Iran The Times Online reported that Tony Blair said there could be a new “partnership” with Iran if it stopped supporting terrorism in Iraq and gave up its nuclear ambitions. Syria and Iran could choose partnership or isolation, he said.   IAEA: Iran still evading transparency Reuters reported that a new International Atomic Energy Agency report on Iran due out this week is expected to...

Ahmadinejad: I’m not anti-Semitic Iranian leader tells reporters in New York, ‘There were those who had accused me of being a murderer and anti-Semitic, but I’m not an anti-Semite’; adds: We have said that under fair and just conditions we will negotiate on nuclear program Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 09.21.06, 21:42 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a press conference in New York on Thursday "We love everyone in the world - Jews, Christians, Muslims, non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Christians. "We are against ugly acts. We are against occupation, aggression, killings and displacing people - otherwise we have no problem with ordinary people....

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranians should call helicopters "rotating wings" and pizzas "elastic loaves," according to a decree from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that seeks to rid Persian of European loan words. The presidential decree carried in Saturday's newspapers said official documents, schoolbooks and newspapers should follow the rulings of the Farhangestan, Iran's linguistic policeman -- equivalent of the Academie Francaise. "All the institutions named above should use the words created and agreed by the academy as a replacement to alien words," the decree said. The words created by the Farhangestan as replacements to European loan words often sound cumbersome or comic...

TEHRAN, July 15 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday compared the behaviour of Israel in launching an offensive against Lebanon to that of Nazi Germany. Ahmadinejad has already received a stern rebuke from the U.N. Security Council for labelling the Holocaust, in which six million Jews died, a myth. "Hitler sought pretexts to attack other nations," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the ISNA students news agency at the inauguration of a Tehran road tunnel. "The Zionist regime is seeking baseless pretexts to invade Islamic countries and right now it is justifying its attacks with groundless excuses," he...