Ahmadinejad impressive

I carefully read and re-read the transcript and was impressed with President Ahmadinejad\'s dignity and clarity. 
 
I am an an agnostic humanist and disagree with NOT ONLY President Ahmadinejad but OTHER followers of the Abrahamic religions (Christians, Jews and Muslims) in relation to Gay Rights (they should have FULL rights in my view) and the Death Penalty (it should be abolished in my view). Further, I strongly disapprove of the heavy-handed constraint on humanist political activists in Iran.  
 
However, those matters aside, I found it difficult to disagree with anything he had to say and I have great sympathy for the views expressed by the 10 Iranian Vice Chancellors and the importance of the questions they have asked. 
 
He responded adequately to the canard of Holocaust denial - he clearly stated that this huge historical reality has had a huge, devastating (and unwarranted)impact on the ME - and as with any other matter should be subject to CONTINUING SCIENTIFIC and scholarly scrutiny. [Indeed while I know of the outcomes and fates for immediate members of MY family in the Holocaust there are many un-answered questions about the fate of members of my WIDER family, the reality that like so many PALESTINIANS WE continue to be dispossessed of OUR IDENTIFIABLE land and property, and other aspects of the Holocaust].  
 
Taken at face value from the REALITY of the transcript of President Ahmadinejad\'s words, Iran is not in occupation of any other country; has no aggressive intent to anyone; is an NPT signatory and is opposed to nuclear weapons development; does NOT have nuclear weapons (unlike the US and Apartheid Israel); has every right to nuclear power [although my personal scientific view is that RENEWABLES are the way NOT nuclear]; is cooperating with the IAEA; recently voted YES to an IAEA motion opposing nuclear weapons in the ME (non-NPT Israel and NPT-violating USA voted NO); is NOT involved (unlike the US and Apartheid Israel) in invasion, occupation, devastation,ethnic cleansing and decimation of foreign countries. 
 
Iran has made (and will continue to make) great social, institutional and technological progress DESPITE the US overthrow of democracy -in 1953; the US-backed Shah dictatorship from 1953-1979; the horrendous 1980-1988 US-backed Iraq war on Iran (excess Iranian deaths 2.1 million; see \"Body Count\" via the link below); the 1981 US invasion; Western sanctions; the US occupation and devastation of its neighbours Iraq and Afghanistan; US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry with devastating effects on Iran and the World - 0.5 million post-2001 world opiate drug-related deaths due to US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry from 5% of world share in 2001 to 76% in 2002 and 93% in 2007; US-backed Baluchi and other terrorism alluded to in the President\'s speech; and HORRENDOUS threats of miltary attack by the US and Apartheid Israel. 
 
Contrary to the false, obverse view of the Bush-ite Western Mainstream media, President Ahmadinejad comes up smelling of roses compared to the Racist Zionist and Racist Bush-ite liars, war criminals, mass murderers, nuclear terrorists and war-mongers running Apartheid Israel and Bush America, respectively, and their respective Occupied Territories in the US Killing Fields from Somalia to Afghanistan.

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