Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born October 28, 1956) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president in 2005 , by popular vote. Before becoming president, he was the mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but has less power than the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is CIC and has the final word in all aspects of foreign and domestic policies. Ahmadinejad is a radical, yet intelligent Iranian leader with the potential to rally Islamic radicalism across the middle east (Source: Wikipedia).Here are some of his less subtle statements (not views I condone):
- They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets."
- "We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them."
- "The real Holocaust is what is happening in Palestine where the Zionists avail themselves of the fairy tale of Holocaust as blackmail and justification for killing children and women and making innocent people homeless."
- "The West claims that more than six million Jews were killed in World War II and to compensate for that they established and support Israel. If it is true that the Jews were killed in Europe, why should Israel be established in the East, in Palestine?"
- "If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel. Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?"
(c) Peter Eleazar at www.bethelstone.com
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