Insane Frenzy Over Ahmadinejad Visit Concocted by Israeli Propagandists

By Michael Collins Piper — AFP

The real news is that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is proudly and unswervingly continuing to assert his nation’s sovereignty in the face of what many now openly call “the NewWorld Order.”

Speaking before the United Nations on Sept. 25, Ahmadinejad said the matter of dispute (by the United States and Israel) surrounding Iran’s nuclear program is “now closed” and that his country will not submit to pressure from “arrogant powers.”

The issue is no longer “political” for the U.S.-dominated UN Security Council, he said, but a “technical” one for observation and monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA has refused to rush to endorse claims by the United States and Israel that Iran is engaged in a fervent drive to build nuclear weapons.

Ahmadinejad did not mention in his UN speech (as he could have) that Israel is known to be one of the planet’s best-armed nuclear powers—central to the problem of atomic proliferation in the Middle East, having been engaged in weapons development since the early 1950s. Israel does not permit inspections of its own nuclear arsenal nor has Israel signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Iran has, the latter a point the Iranian leader did make. In short, Ahmadinejad—and Iran—will not buckle.

For failing to bend to U.S. and Israeli pressure, Ahmadinejad was hounded during his visit to New York with perhaps the loudest, most outlandish media spectacle that even that city has ever witnessed.

And while the media would have Americans believe the bizarre frenzy that erupted in the streets of NewYork was a spontaneous grass-roots uprising in opposition to the appearance at Columbia University by Ahmadinejad (prior to his UN speech), nothing could be further from the truth.

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