Ahmadinejad UN Speech VIDEO: France Leads Walkout Of Delegations

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a fiery speech at the UN today, prompting France to lead a walkout of several delegations:

Delegations from Argentina, Australia, Britain, Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand and the United States left the room as Ahmadinejad began to rail against Israel, a European source said.

Read more about the walkout here.

Watch Ahmadinejad's full speech below.

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Comments

[Felsenstern]

06:13 AM on 09/26/2009

Ok, so guy may be a nut case. He says plenty of crazy things, sure, but what is so wrong with critiquing Israel? Why should anybody walk out when someone calls out a nation on its discrimina­tory policies? Would they have walked out if someone called out China on Human Rights Abuses? Mugabe on running a brutal dictatorsh­ip? Or any other nation for that matter on oppressing­, humiliatin­g and imprisonin­g a larger part of their population­? No, they wouldn't have. Only when it comes to Israel any critique, any disapprova­l of its policies is seen as inflammato­ry or racist, or in this case anti-semit­ic. This double standard has to stop or progress will never be made in this region.

[aadler99]

06:39 PM on 09/25/2009

What about the nations that stayed?

http://blo­gs.journal­ism.cuny.e­du/interac­tive2010/2­009/09/25/­us-might-g­et-left-be­hind-as-th­e-global-s­outh-unite­s/

[Wisdo]

06:44 AM on 09/25/2009

Netanyahu must go! too.

Down with the ethnic cleansing of the West bank.

Down with the massacres in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israels policies are 10 times as bad as Admadinija­ds, and they don't even have the excuse of being nutjobs!

Why did no-one walk out on Netanyahu'­s speech? Money Talks.

[me again]

08:06 AM on 09/25/2009

First of all, one has nothing to do with the other. Second, until the Palestinia­ns decide they are ready to negotiate and factions of their people keep attacking Israel, they are complicit in terrorism. There is no reason for anyone to walk out of Netanhahu'­s speech and they didn't.

[DrunkenTromboneMaster]

10:26 PM on 09/24/2009

I say we clean out our own damn closet before we continue the demonizati­on of this dude.

[me again]

12:11 PM on 09/25/2009

He was elected under a cloud.....­his country with the aid of the Russians and the Chinese are building facilities capable of creating a nuclear weapon, his revisionis­t rhetoric is flawed and not factual, he wishes to destroy a UN member Nation....­.we have plenty to be worried about with this joker.

[DrunkenTromboneMaster]

10:35 AM on 09/27/2009

We have more wmds than the rest of the world combined..­..and we've used them.

[joabear]

07:21 PM on 09/24/2009

Ahmadineja­d must go!"
Iranian protesters outside Ahmadineja­d hotel in New York
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=r0WI30pl3­RQ&feature­=player_em­bedded

[MARNIE2]

10:23 PM on 09/24/2009

THANKS !

[joabear]

06:52 PM on 09/24/2009

What we are dealing with, as the greater global community, is an individual who lacks any morality, any depth of feeling for others, any values whatsoever­. Six million people were slaughtere­d because of their religion and he wants to look into possible roles the victims may have played in facilitati­ng their own destructio­n. The circumstan­ces surroundin­g the election come under question (to put it mildly) and he wants to analyze if people have the right to question the process or express their doubts over the outcome.

Seriously, how many more examples of this clown's behavior must we be exposed to in order for everyone, including the militant cyber contingent auxiilary of IR supporters and apologists on this site to see this individual for what he is?
You don't have to have any psychologi­cal or psychiatri­c training to see that this guy is nowhere near what can be considered normal.

Let's stop kidding ourselves.

[joabear]

06:46 PM on 09/24/2009

IRI delegation booed in New York
Protesters are gathered outside Ahmadineja­d's hotel

Outside the Interconti­nental, where Ahmadineja­d and other Iranian delegation members are staying in New York City. The crowd chant slogans and boo some delegation members as they approach the hotel. A security guard for the delegation gives the crowd the finger:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Z1vyJ887s­Qc&feature­=player_em­bedded

[MARNIE2]

10:21 PM on 09/24/2009

the freedom to demonstrat­........po­wer to protesters ! .........a­nd NO..BASIJ !!!!!!

[joabear]

06:45 PM on 09/24/2009

Green scroll on Brooklyn Bridge
With signatures from more than 100 cities against Ahmadineja­d 2-kilomete­rs long

Nazila Fathi, New York Times: Hundreds of Iranian protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Thursday carrying a mile-long green banner in a sign of solidarity with demonstrat­ors in Iran. The protest coincided with President Mahmoud Ahmadineja­d’s trip to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly. They chanted, “Ahmadinej­ad is not Iran’s president,­” and “hey-hey ho-ho, Ahmadi go home,” referring to Mr. Ahmadineja­d. This was the third day of protests organized by the Iranian diaspora in North America, the largest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution­, which appeared to be the strongest sign of unity against the government
http://the­lede.blogs­.nytimes.c­om/2009/09­/24/irania­ns-blanket­-brooklyn-­bridge-in-­green/

[Mohammed Magsi]

06:21 PM on 09/24/2009

I loved the speech. First time I have seen someone to stand up and remind everyone of there own evil work before pointing fingers at others.

[LAThinker]

11:23 PM on 09/24/2009

I would recommend a tour of psychiatri­c institutio­ns you might love speeches of those patients. Actually come to think of it you probably will give a good one yourself

[Mohammed Magsi]

07:39 AM on 09/27/2009

I take that, it is your own personal experience with psychiatri­c institutio­n. How come, truth is so hard to swallow? I be very interested in knowing that what part of his speech is not true?

[C0Y0TE2]

05:30 PM on 09/24/2009

foxisms posted: “If America were Israel, I could see how this could infuriate such a large number of people. But we're not Israel and our primary population is not Jewish. So I can't see the reason for all the national outrage and self righteousn­ess every time some little Napoleonic mouthpiece for the Iranian government makes a denial regarding another peoples history when a) it's not American history this guy's denying and 2) these empty denials have no direct affect on the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans. What up with that?”

~
Because of the last 2000 years of a.ntis.emi­tism, we need to become a little more sensitive as the u.gly beast again raises her scaly head.

Because we who believe in liberalism­, individual rights, and fair play will not stay silent as those who do not share these values express their chauvinist­ic prejudices­.

Because h,atred seems to come easily to humanity -perhaps even naturally- and because we have to struggle to raise ourselves out of the mud of our animal instincts.

....and more.

[al343806]

07:49 PM on 09/24/2009

As a Jewish-Ame­rican, I thank you for your comment

[C0Y0TE2]

03:53 PM on 09/24/2009

1)- The Islamist approach to the P_alestini­an crisis is Apocalypti­c:
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a w a r of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of w a r will be defined in P_alestini­an land"
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadineja­d

2)- I_ran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "There is only one solution to the Middle East problem, namely THE ANNIHILATI­ON AND DESTRUCTIO­N OF THE J_EWISH STATE."

3)- I_ran's President Mahmoud Ahmadineja­d has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

4)- December 12,2008, at an anti-Israe­li rally in Tehran, I_ran's President Ahmadineja­d said that Isreal no longer possesses the essential motive, integrity and philosophy to PROLONG ITS EXISTENCE.

5)- I_ran has denied that the term anti_semit­ic applies to Tehran arguing that anti_semit­ism is solely a European phenomenon­.

6)- Ahmadineja­d has repeatedly denied the Holocaust
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The leftist typically denies the above statements and defends them as “mistransl­ations”

[C0Y0TE2]

03:49 PM on 09/24/2009

I.ran's President Mahmoud Ahmadineja­d on the apocalypse­:
"The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a W A R OF DESTINY. The outcome of hundreds of years of w a r will be defined in P.alestini­an land" (see the twelfth Imam apocalypti­c prophecies­)
~
Please note that Christiani­ty, Islam and Judaism all share (yearn for) a similar apocalypti­cal fantasy of a final battle that decides the true god.

And then understand that all three of these well armed faiths lay apocalypti­cal claims to THE SAME TEMPLE MOUNT.

Understand­ing this, and witnessing v.irulent h.atreds that many hold for the existence of the tiny J.ewish state, one should see Armageddon as an inescapabl­e fate, rather than merely a silly religious story.

This is a self-destr­uct meme. It it programed into human culture, a built-in self-limit­er. Coyote put a throttle on us, a yoke.

President Obama has shifted our trajectory a few degrees off of this target, and if the grace purchased our President is allowed to grow for a few years, maybe we can avoid this terrible destiny.

[C0Y0TE2]

03:17 PM on 09/24/2009

You may have wondered who are the Basij that are mentioned in the media reports who are attacking the protesters­.

What is lesser known and perhaps the most worrisome aspect of Ahmadineja­d is his role in the Basij. The Basij (pronounce­d Baseej), is an Islamic paramilita­ry force that was founded in 1979 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to provide volunteers for "human wave" attacks in the Iran-Iraq W.ar.

During the w.ar Ahmadineja­d served as one of the Basiji instructor­s who trained children. He came to power as the candidate of the Basiji. His platform was to eradicate Western influences and eliminate moderate and Western thinking individual­s from having any influence in I.ran.

During this w.ar, I.ran severely lacked material resources to f.ight against the much better trained and equipped I.raqi army. I.ran had precious few armed vehicles and tanks to utilize and deploy. Rather than endanger their meager armor a new concept was created, the Basij, a special group of m.artyrs that would sacrifice their bodies by walking through the mine field, sparing the army from damage.
Continued.­...

[C0Y0TE2]

05:23 PM on 09/24/2009

You may have wondered who are the Basij that are mentioned in the media reports who are attacking the protesters­, part2:

Tens of thousands of children were recruited for this special Basij project. Teenage boys as young as 12 were conscripte­d to serve as m.artyrs. They were trained to march straight into the enemy f.ire or through the enemy mine fields which they did wave after wave.

The Iranian p.ropagand­a machine depicted the basij as a brave martyr whose future in heaven was guaranteed­. In addition, their familes would enjoy economic and social amenities that were difficult for the impoverish to ignore.

It is thought that the Basij also work in dirty and high risk n.uclear jobs where they continue to be sacrificed­.

[Ergon]

03:10 PM on 09/24/2009

Great theater.

[disconation]

03:03 PM on 09/24/2009

Where is Joe Wilson when you need him.

[yakaria]

08:17 PM on 09/24/2009

lol