Ahmadinejad komt op voor Amerikaanse journaliste

Ahmadinejad droeg de hoofdofficier van justitie in Teheran Saeed Mortavazi op er persoonlijk zorg voor te dragen dat ’verdachten alle middelen krijgen om zich te verdedigen’.

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Turkey Pulls Out of Deal to Buy Iranian Gas Under Pressure From US

Iranian president's two-day lobbying visit ends in disappointment as Istanbul rejects 1.87bn deal Turkey delivered a humiliating snub to Iran's visiting president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, yesterday by backing out of a lucrative energy deal under pressure from the US government, which feared it would enhance Iranian nuclear ambitions.

Signing the £1.87bn agreement to provide Turkey with Iranian natural gas - on which memoranda of understanding had already been agreed - was to have been the crowning achievement of Ahmadinejad's two-day visit to Istanbul, which Turkish officials had agreed to after intense Iranian lobbying. Iran is Turkey's second-biggest energy supplier after Russia and has been seeking to woo Turkish investment in its South Pars gas fields.

But as Ahmadinejad met his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül, at Ciragan Palace in Istanbul, it emerged that US intervention had effectively torpedoed a deal.

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Iraanse vice-president: Iraniërs "vrienden van Israëli's"

Voor zover bekend de eerste keer dat een officieel Iraans medium sympathie voor Israël uitspreekt, aldus Fox News.

Als dit waar is, zou je het als een poging kunnen opvatten om de onderlinge verhoudingen wat te ontspannen. Wat me een goed ding lijkt. De wereld heeft dat nu meer dan ooit nodig.

Maar Fox News zou Fox News niet zijn als ze vervolgens niet de fout in zouden gaan met het wederom herhalen van deze foutief vertaalde uitspraak:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international criticism when he said in 2005 that he believed Israel would one day be "wiped off the map."

Dit is wat Ahmadinejad werkelijk zei:

'De Imam zei dat dit regime dat Jeruzalem bezet houdt moet verdwijnen van de bladzijden van de tijd.'

Does World War III Loom Large?

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has told Washington in no uncertain terms that his country will not accept military strikes on Iran and reinforced that message with an unprecedented invitation to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit him in Moscow.

Pundits noted that the body language between Putin and Ahmadinejad appeared jolly and relaxed in contrast to the Russian leader's earlier more sober meetings with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Sarkozy.

And last week, Putin turned his ire on Bush comparing the stringent new US sanctions against Iran and the American president's attitude toward Tehran with that of a madman "running about with a razor blade in his hand". Putin believes the sanctions will achieve little other than to undermine any hope of constructive dialogue between Iran and the West.

Highlighting the reality of war talk in the air, the Director-General of the Kazakhstan Institute of Strategic Studies Dr. Bulat K. Sultanov was recently driven to announce that Kazakhstan would side with Russia in case of a US-Russia confrontation. Wouldn't such a confrontation amount to World War III?

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Rabbis Say Iran Seeks Peace, Respects Judaism - Calls for True Dialogue With Ahmadinejad

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, spokesman of Neturei Karta International, issued the following statement on the eve of the group's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"It is always our pleasure to visit with President Ahmadinejad. This will be the third such meeting, in addition to our many visits to Iran in the past. We have each time emphasized to the Iranian leadership that, despite media hysteria and the statements of some misinformed Jews, we have found the Iranian people and their leaders to be friendly and respectful.

"Likewise, although we as Jews are not to be involved in politics, (According to Jewish law, Jewish people are required to be loyal citizens to the countries wherein they reside), We have found the Iranian President to be a deeply religious man, dedicated to a peaceful world, based on mutual respect, fairness and dialogue.

"Judaism seeks peace. Unfortunately, there are some Jews today, influenced by the barely century old, philosophy of Zionism, who feel that the proper Jewish response to enemies, be they real or fantasized, is aggression and calls for violence and unfortunately attempts to drag other nations down the path of war.

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Iran werkt niet aan atoombom

De Iraanse president Ahmadinejad heeft in een gesprek met de Amerikaanse televisiezender CBS gezegd dat zijn land geen kernwapens nodig heeft. Hij ontkent dan ook dat zijn land probeert een kernwapen te maken.

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