UN visit 2012

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In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be "eliminated"

25 September 2012

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session.

Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie.#

The United States quickly dismissed the Iranian president's comments as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran denies it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists," Ahmadinejad, in New York for this week's U.N. General Assembly, told reporters. "We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves."

Ahmadinejad is due to speak at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met Ahmadinejad on Sunday and warned him of the dangers of incendiary rhetoric in the Middle East.

Ahmadinejad, who has used previous U.N. sessions to question the Holocaust and the U.S. account of the September 11, 2001, attacks, did not heed the warning and instead expanded on his previous rejection of Israel's right to exist. Western envoys typically walk out of Ahmadinejad's U.N. speeches in protest at his remarks.

"Iran has been around for the last seven, 10 thousand years. They (the Israelis) have been occupying those territories for the last 60 to 70 years, with the support and force of the Westerners. They have no roots there in history," he said, referring to the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948.

"We do believe that they have found themselves at a dead end and they are seeking new adventures in order to escape this dead end. Iran will not be damaged with foreign bombs," Ahmadinejad said, speaking through an interpreter at his Manhattan hotel.

"We don't even count them as any part of any equation for Iran. During a historical phase, they (the Israelis) represent minimal disturbances that come into the picture and are then eliminated."

In 2005, Ahmadinejad called Israel a "tumour" and echoed the words of the former Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, by saying that Israel should be wiped off the map.

WHITE HOUSE: COMMENTS DISGUSTING

In Washington, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Israel's security.

"President Ahmadinejad's comments are characteristically disgusting, offensive and outrageous," he said. "They underscore again why America's commitment to the security of Israel must be unshakeable, and why the world must hold Iran accountable for its utter failure to meet its obligations."

The United States also officially linked Iran's state oil company to the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a move that enables Washington to apply new sanctions on foreign banks dealing with the company.

Attending what will likely be his last U.N. General Assembly as he nears the end of his second term next year, Ahmadinejad also spoke at a high-level U.N. session on the rule of law, prompting a walkout by Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor.

"Ahmadinejad showed again that he not only threatens the future of the Jewish people, he seeks to erase our past," Prosor said in a statement. "Three thousand years of Jewish history illustrate the clear danger of ignoring fanatics like Iran's president, especially as he inches closer to acquiring nuclear weapons."

Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted on Sunday as saying that Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it.

Ahmadinejad said the nuclear issue was ultimately between the United States and Iran and must be resolved in talks.

"The nuclear issue is not a problem," he said. "But the approach of the United States on Iran is important. We are ready for dialogue, for a fundamental resolution of the problems, but under conditions that are based on fairness and mutual respect.

"We are not expecting a 33-year-old problem between the United States and Iran to be resolved in a speedy fashion," Ahmadinejad said. "But there is no other way besides dialogue."

Obama will underscore his commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and address Muslim unrest related to an anti-Islamic video in his speech to the General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House said.

'BULLYING COUNTRIES'

At the meeting on the rule of law, Ahmadinejad said states should not yield to rules imposed "by bullying countries."

Ahmadinejad said on Monday that conditions in Iran, which is under U.N., U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear program, were not as bad as portrayed by some and the country could survive without oil revenues.

Britain, France and Germany called for fresh economic sanctions on Iran in a letter to European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, a top French official told reporters.

"If we want to reach a diplomatic and peaceful solution to Iran's nuclear program, then we must increase the pressure," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.

Western sanctions on Iran tightened markedly this year with an EU ban on crude oil purchases from Iran and U.S. sanctions targeting banks that deal with Iran's central bank. Those sanctions have not yielded tangible progress toward a diplomatic solution.

There will be high-level side meetings on Iran's nuclear program and the Syrian conflict during the General Assembly but U.N. diplomats do not expect either issue to be resolved soon.

Ahmadinejad's annual visits to New York, a city with a sizable Jewish population, are routinely met with protests against his anti-Israel rhetoric. United Against Nuclear Iran, a U.S. group that opposes Iran acquiring an atomic bomb, protested at the Iranian official's hotel with a banner reading "Out of the Warwick, out of New York, out of the U.N.!"

'WE SEEK PEACE IN SYRIA'

Ahmadinejad rejected charges by the United Nations and Western officials that Iran is sending arms to pro-government forces in Syria fighting rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad. "The so-called news that you alluded to has been denied vehemently, officially," he said to a question.

"We see both sides as equally our brothers," he said. "The intervention and meddling from outside have made conditions that much tougher. We must help to quell the violence and help ... (facilitate) a national dialogue."

Ahmadinejad also was asked about a move by an Iranian religious foundation to increase its reward for the killing of Rushdie in response to a California-made anti-Islam video called "The Innocence of Muslims" that has sparked anti-American protests around the Muslim world.

"Where is he now?" Ahmadinejad asked of Rushdie. "Is he in the United States? If he is, you shouldn't broadcast that for his own safety.

Rushdie, an Indian-born British novelist who has nothing to do with the video, was condemned to death in 1989 by Khomeini, Iran's late leader, because of his novel "The Satanic Verses," saying its depiction of the Prophet Mohammad was blasphemous.

Ahmadinejad appeared to reject Washington's position that while it condemns the video's content, freedom of expression must be upheld. "Freedoms must not interfere with the freedoms of others," Ahmadinejad said. "If someone insults, what would you do? ... Is insulting other people not a form of crime?"

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Zionist-dominated media losing audience

26 Sep 2012

As Noam Chomsky says, the media’s job is “manufacturing consent.” One way they do this is by trying to make the public applaud on command, just as Pavlov trained his dogs to salivate on command.

The media mind-controllers have been manufacturing synthetic public applause, and synthetic laughter, ever since the American sound engineer Charles “Charley” Douglass invented the laugh track in the early 1950s. Whenever Big Brother’s mouthpiece fails to get the audience to cheer or laugh at the right moments, a sound engineer inserts a laugh track or an applause track, in hopes that the people watching at home will join in the ersatz cheering or hilarity. (The mind-controllers know that people tend to cheer when other people cheer, and laugh when other people laugh.) #

The Zionist-dominated Western media has been working overtime for more than a decade to manufacture public consent to the 9/11-triggered War on Islam, the destruction of Constitutional liberties, and the gradual transition to a totally controlled, surveilled, microchipped society. They want us to cheer for war, lies, and unfreedom, and to boo the truth.

Unfortunately for the mind-controllers, people are increasingly cheering for the truth, cheering for peace, and cheering for resistance to Zionism. They are no longer acting like a pack of Pavlov’s dogs. The media mind-controllers are losing their audience.

Consider the amazing moment during the Democratic National Convention when the Democratic leaders called for a voice vote to amend the platform to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Normally, “voice votes” are just pro forma exercises. But in one of the most stunning moments in American political history, convention delegates rebelled against their would-be mind-controllers, and roared out their opposition to Zionism. The stunned DNC chairman couldn’t believe his ears. He called for another voice vote. Once again the delegates unleashed an anti-Zionist uproar. The DNC chair, flabbergasted, tried it one more time, with the same result. He then lied outrageously, saying it was the “opinion of the chair” that the “voice vote” had passed! Watch the historic moment when Americans stood together and shouted “NO!” to Zionism.

The DNC anti-Zionism voice vote was just one example of the way that crowds are increasingly going off-script and rebelling against the mind-controllers.

Another illustration: The massive outpouring of public support for 9/11 truth that erupted during Jesse Ventura’s appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan show. Piers Morgan wore a frightened, sickly smile as he accused the former Minnesota governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate of “making crackpot points” by suggesting that 9/11 was a false-flag operation designed to trigger war. Governor Ventura turned to the crowd and asked, “How many of you think I’m making crackpot points?” One person responded. Then Ventura asked: “How many think I make sensible points?” The whole crowd erupted.

For more than a decade, the Zionist-dominated mainstream media has been working overtime to convince its audience that anyone who questions the official story of 9/11 is a crackpot. I know this from personal experience; in 2006 Hannity and Colmes invited me on their Fox News show in order to call me “a nut.” Bill O’Reilly followed up with more verbal attacks, including a call for my assassination. But their cheap insults haven’t succeeded; the audience just keeps going off-script and cheering for 9/11 truth. As President Reagan’s top economics advisor, Paul Craig Roberts, memorably put it: “The real story is what the people are saying about 9/11.”

As I said to Sean Hannity - and Jesse Ventura repeated to Piers Morgan: “You are in the minority!”

And it isn’t just Americans who are going off-script and cheering for truth and justice. Increasingly, it is the whole world.

Consider Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s reception at the United Nations. From reading about it in the Zionist media, you would think that the whole world boos and walks out when Ahmadinejad speaks. But the reality is precisely the opposite.

In the past, when President Ahmadinejad spoke truth to power at the UN, the US, Israel, and a handful of other countries would ostentatiously walk out. The remaining delegates - always more than 100 of them, the vast majority - would remain, and give Iran’s president a standing ovation for supporting 9/11 truth and speaking out for global justice.

But this Tuesday, as the President of Iran spoke to the United Nations on Yom Kippur, something amazing happened. The Israeli delegate, as usual, walked out on President Ahmadinejad. But the American delegate did not!

“When Iranian President Ahmadinejad ascended the podium to speak on the rule of law at the UN today, Israeli UN envoy Ron Prosor rose from his seat and walked out while the US envoys remained, according to Fox News. Update: Raw video from the UN confirms that US representatives attended the entire speech.”

And once again, the vast majority of UN delegates gave the Iranian president an enthusiastic ovation.

Reuters News Service, owned by the Rothschild crime family (the founders and owners of Israel), sounded even more panicked than Fox News as it whined: “In New York, defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be “eliminated.”

Unfortunately for the Rothschilds, Iran’s president is not alone in his opinion; America’s own CIA has issued a report saying Israel is doomed, and even Henry Kissinger recently said that Israel will not exist in ten years. Every brainwashing technique in the media manipulators’ bag of tricks, including the murderous Hollywood special-effects show on 9/11/2001, cannot get the American public or the global public to cheer for Israel.

Clearly, the global public is cheering for Iran’s principled anti-Zionism, despite all the media brainwashing. The outpouring of support for Iran at the recent Non-Aligned conference, and public opinion polls showing that even Europeans consider Israel the greatest threat to world peace, underline the obvious: The Zionist-dominated media have failed to manufacture consent for the invasion, occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

By supporting the 9/11 big lie, and desperately trying to orchestrate public support for Zionism (and failing), big media is sealing its own doom. A series of Gallup polls shows that Americans trust the media less and less every year. As of this year, 60% of the American people say “they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Since only 16% believe the government and media are telling the truth about 9/11, this is not surprising.

The official US Zionist mouthpiece, The New York Times, recently had to sell off 21 floors of its building because it is going broke. The rest of the Zionist corporate media is also collapsing into bankruptcy, as people turn to more truthful, critical, and comprehensive news sources including Press TV, Veterans Today, American Freedom Radio, What Really Happened, Citizens for Legitimate Government, and other alternative outlets.

Future historians, looking back at this bizarre moment in history, may ask themselves: When did the vox populi definitively turn against the Zionist-imperialist agenda of the 9/11 perpetrators? Those historians would do well to consider three recent examples of crowds going off-script: The DNC delegates roaring for anti-Zionism; Jesse Ventura’s CNN audience cheering for 9/11 truth; and the UN delegates (except Israel’s) cheering for Iranian president and 9/11 truth supporter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Piers Morgan that homosexuality is 'ugly'

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad criticised gay people and condemned the anti-Islamic film that sparked riots in a typically candid interview with Piers Morgan on CNN.

25th September, 2012

The Iranian leader, known for his outspoken views on the west, gave a rare interview to the chat show host while in the US, with homosexuality,  anti-Islamic film Innocence Of Muslims, the assassination of Osama bin Laden and potential attacks on Iran all discussed. #

When asked by Mr Morgan about his views on gay people, Mr Ahmadinejad replied with a question of his own, asking: 'I'm sorry. Let me ask you this. Do you believe that anyone is giving birth through homosexuality? Homosexuality ceases procreation.

'Who has said that if you like or believe in doing something ugly, and others do not accept your behavior, that they're denying your freedom?'

Mr Morgan also sought the president's opinion on the controversial film which has sparked protests and bloodshed across the Muslim world, with Mr Ahmadinejad condemning both the film and the subsequent violence by saying: 'Fundamentally, first of all, any action that is provocative, offends the religious thoughts and feelings of any people, we condemn Likewise, we condemn any type of extremism

'Of course, what took place was ugly. Offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly. This has very little or nothing to do with freedom and freedom of speech. This is the weakness of and the abuse of freedom, and in many places it is a crime. It shouldn't take place, and I do hope the day will come in which politicians will not seek to offend those whom others hold holy.'

Speaking on Bin Laden's death last year he said he would have rather seen a 'transparent, formal trial,' while he urged for the violence in Syria to stop.

The Iranian leader was once again evasive about the Holocaust in the interview and his beliefs on its existence, saying: 'I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

'Why should I judge that? I say researchers and scholars must be free to conduct research and analysis about any historical event.'

Mr Ahmadinejad spoke through a translator during the interview, which was aired on Monday's edition of Piers Morgan Tonight.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon met with the Iranian president last week and warned him of the 'potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric,' the UN said in a statement.

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Ahmadinejad shrugs off military strike threat

24.5.2012

UNITED NATIONS — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shrugged off threats of a military strike on his country's nuclear facilities, showing defiance ahead of his final appearance at the UN General Assembly this week.

In previous years, the Iranian leader has regularly sparked United Nations walkouts over his comments on Israel, and Israel's UN ambassador again marched out when Ahmadinejad appeared at a meeting on the rule of law on Monday.

Ahmadinejad criticized Western powers for their sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and for allowing filmmakers and cartoonists to lampoon the Prophet Mohammed in what he branded a "sacrilege" of Islam.

Before arriving at UN headquarters in New York, the Iranian leader dismissed the threats he said had been made by "the Zionists" against his country, which is at the center of an international showdown over its nuclear program.

"Uncultured Zionists that threaten the Iranian nation today are never counted and are never paid any attention in the equations of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad told Iranian expatriates in New York.

"The Iranian nation has never hesitated to defend itself against enemy threats and aggressions," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on his personal website.

"No bullying power has ever been successful in overcoming the Iranian nation."

At a mmeeting later with American media editors, Ahmadinejad said Iran reiterated that it does not take speculation of an Israeli military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities seriously.

The United States and its European allies accuse Iran of seeking to develop a nuclear bomb and the UN Security Council has imposed four rounds of sanctions against Iran.

Ahmadinejad's government insists it is seeking peaceful applications of nuclear power in energy generation and medical research.

"We believe the Zionists see themselves at a dead end and they want to find an adventure to get out of this dead end. While we are fully ready to defend ourselves, we do not take these threats seriously," the Iranian leader said.

Ahmadinejad will make his eighth and final appearance before the General Assembly on Wednesday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned him about "the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric" in a meeting on Sunday.

The Iranian leader has in the past described Israel as a "tumor" to be removed surgically and said it should be "wiped off the map".

Iran and the tensions over its nuclear program are set to become a dominant topic at the weeklong UN assembly.

Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States -- which have sought to negotiate a settlement with Iran -- are to meet on Thursday to discuss the showdown.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the assembly on the same day.

At the UN meeting on Monday, Ahmadinejad did not name the Western powers but attacked countries which he said "violate the basic rights and freedoms of other nations" and for defending Israel.

"Some members of the Security Council with veto rights have chosen silence with regard to the nuclear warheads of a fake regime while at the same time they impede scientific progress of other nations," he said.

Israel has an undeclared nuclear weapons program and has stepped up warnings against Iran in recent months.

"Ahmadinejad heads a state that is the most systematic violator of international law and the world's greatest sponsor of terrorism," said Israel's UN ambassador, Ron Prosor.

"It is shameful, disgraceful, and absurd that his voice was part of today's UN discussion on the rule of law."

The Iranian president also attacked the West over the recent furor stirred when American Christian conservatives made a film attacking Islam and a French magazine printed cartoons mocking the prophet.

"They themselves wrongly invoke the UN charter and misuse freedom of speech to justify their silence towards offending the sanctity of human communities and to divine prophets," he said.

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Interview: Ahmadinejad pushes new world order

Sept 26, 2012

After an hour of fielding questions about Syria, sanctions and nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had enough. Now, he said, it was his turn to choose the topic — his "new order" which will inevitably replace the current era of what he called U.S. bullying.#

Continuing his hectic pace of media appearances and diplomatic meetings, Ahmadinejad presented an air of boredom when it came to the hot topic on everyone's mind — Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of impending war. Whether it was feigned or sincere, he said he would much rather be talking about his vision of what the next world order might be.

Conveniently, it would be an order in which the U.S. and the traditional powers play a smaller role and every country has equal standing (though the state of Israel, he often predicts, will soon become a historical footnote).

"God willing, a new order will come and will do away with ... everything that distances us," Ahmadinejad told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday, speaking through a translator. "All of the animosity, all of the lack of sincerity will come to an end. It will institute fairness and justice."

He said the world was losing patience with the current state of affairs.

"Now even elementary school kids throughout the world have understood that the United States government is following an international policy of bullying," he said. "I do believe the system of empires has reached the end of the road. The world can no longer see an emperor commanding it."

The interview was held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly — Ahmadinejad's last as president of Iran. He was to address the assembly Wednesday morning.

He also discussed solutions for the Syrian civil war, dismissed the question of Iran's nuclear ambition and claimed that despite Western sanctions his country is better off than it was when he took office in 2005.

Earlier Tuesday, President Barack Obama warned Iran that time is running out to resolve the dispute over its nuclear program. In a speech to the General Assembly, Obama said the United States could not tolerate an Iran with atomic weapons.

Ahmadinejad would not respond directly to the president's remarks, saying he did not want to influence the U.S. presidential election in November.

But he argued that the international outcry over Iran's nuclear enrichment program was just an excuse by the West to dominate his country. He claimed that the United States has never accepted Iran's choice of government after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

"Everyone is aware the nuclear issue is the imposition of the will of the United States," he said. "I see the nuclear issue as a non-issue. It has become a form of one-upmanship."

Ahmadinejad said he favored more dialogue, even though negotiations with world powers remain stalled after three rounds of high-level meetings since April.

He said some world leaders have suggested to him that Iran would be better off holding nuclear talks only with the United States.

"Of course I am not dismissing such talks," he said, asked if he were open to discussions with the winner of the American presidential election.

Israeli leaders, however, are still openly contemplating military action again Iranian nuclear facilities, dismissing diplomacy as a dead end. Israel and many in the West suspect that Iran is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, and cite its failure to cooperate fully with nuclear inspectors. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Ahmadinejad also proposed forming a new group of 10 or 11 countries to work to end the 18-month Syrian civil war. Representatives of nations in the Middle East and elsewhere would meet in New York "very soon," he said.

Critics have accused Tehran of giving support to Syrian President Bashar Assad in carrying out massacres and other human rights violations in an attempt to crush the uprising against his rule. Activists say nearly 30,000 people have died.

Ahmadinejad said the so-called contact group hopes to get the Syrian government and opposition to sit across from each other.

"I will do everything in my power to create stability, peace and understanding in Syria," Ahmadinejad said.

Earlier this month, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi announced the formation of a four-member contact group with Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. But Saudi Arabia so far has not participated.

Ahmadinejad denied Iranian involvement in plotting attacks on Israelis abroad, despite arrests and accusations by police in various countries. He also vehemently disputed the U.S. claim that Iranian agents played a role in a foiled plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States last year.

Ahmadinejad will leave office next June after serving two four-year terms. He threw out numbers and statistics during the interview to show that Iran's economy and the lives of average Iranians have improved under his watch. Since his 2005 election, he claimed, Iran went from being the world's 22nd-largest economy to the 17th-largest; non-petroleum related exports increased sevenfold; and the basic production of goods has doubled. Median income increased by $4,000, he said.

It was not possible to immediately verify his figures.

"Today's conditions in Iran are completely different to where they were seven years ago in the economy, in technical achievement, in scientific know-how," Ahmadinejad said. "All of these achievements, though, have been reached under conditions in which we were brought under heavy sanctions."

Iran has called for the U.S. and its European allies to ease the sanctions that have hit its critical oil exports and left it blackballed from key international banking networks.

Ahmadinejad said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, a private investigator and former FBI agent who vanished in Iran five years ago. He said he directed Iranian intelligence services two years ago to work with their counterparts in the U.S. to locate him.

"And if any help there is that I can bring to bear, I would be happy to do so," he said.

He also claimed never to have heard of Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine who is imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran. Hekmati was arrested while visiting his grandmothers in Iran in August 2011, and his family has been using Ahmadinejad's visit to New York to plead for his release.

In spite of Ahmadinejad's assertions on the importance of dialogue and respect for others, he has presented a hard line in many areas in this week's media appearances.

He refuses to speak of the state of Israel by name and instead refers only to the "Zionists." And when asked on Monday about author Salman Rushdie, he made no attempt to distance himself from recent renewed threats on the author's life emanating from an Iranian semi-official religious foundation.

"If he is in the U.S.," said the president of Iran, "you should not broadcast it for his own safety."

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