Ahmadinejad, Iranian Delegation Woo U.S. Media

NewsMax ^ | September 23, 2009 | Kenneth R. Timmerman

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent his foreign minister ahead of him to New York on Monday to test the level of protest he would face when coming to this year’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, Newsmax has learned from sources close to the Iranian president.

The Iranian president, whose June 12 re-election was disputed by millions of Iranians around the world and led to massive street demonstrations the regime violently repressed, was worried that he might get shut out of his midtown Manhattan hotel.

Protests by United Against a Nuclear Iran, a U.S.-based nonprofit coalition headed by former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mark Wallace, succeeded in convincing New York’s Helmsley Hotel on Saturday to cancel a gala dinner scheduled for the disputed Iranian leader later this week. ...

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Farahanipour said that major U.S. media outlets were giving the disputed president unnecessary free publicity by conducting uncritical interviews that failed to challenge him over the regime’s harsh crackdown on protestors earlier this summer.

He cited scheduled interviews with CBS News, the Washington Post, and al Jazeera on Wednesday, the BBC and PBS talk host Charlie Rose on Thursday. National Public Radio, the NY Times, and CNN’s Larry King live on Friday.

Sources close to the Iranian president tell Newsmax that he demanded that CNN broadcast a propaganda video produced by the Iranian government that compares the recent protests in Tehran to the 1965 Los Angeles riots, when 34 people died and the predominantly black Watts neighborhood burned for six days.

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