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This is how the Iranians are reporting on their president’s speech on Monday at Columbia. Notice how they sugarcoat and aggrandize the whole experience.

Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon.

On second day of his entry in New York, and amid standing ovation of the audience that had attended the hall where the Iranian President was to give his lecture as of early hours of the day, Ahmadinejad said that Iran is not going to attack any country in the world.

Before President Ahamadinejad’s address, Colombia University Chancellor in a brief address told the audience that they would have the chance to hear Iran’s stands as the Iranian President would put them forth.

He said that the Iranians are a peace loving nation, they hate war, and all types of aggression.

Referring to the technological achievements of the Iranian nation in the course of recent years, the president considered them as a sign for the Iranians’ resolute will for achieving sustainable development and rapid advancement.

The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises.

At the end of his address President Ahmadinejad answered the students’ questions on such issues as Israel, Palestine, Iran’s nuclear program, the status of women in Iran and a number of other matters.

Source: www2.irna.ir

When you couple this with the news that Iran has closed another news station you begin to understand why allowing this guy to speak was such a bad idea. Dictators like Ahmadinejad work tirelessly to control all the information that their people get. They filter out the bad and punctuate the good to increase their standing among their people.

I’m sure that over the next few days Iranians will get a steady diet of a hatefull Columbia University Dean and brilliant, albeit somewhat obtuse, answers by Ahmadinejad. Applause will be the only reaction that Iranians see on their television sets. And this scene will probably play out on the television sets of the citizens in countries whose leaders have aligned themselves with Ahmadinejad. 

This was a great victory for Ahmadinejad and his band of international pariahs. He has positioned himself as the one who is open to discussion and cast America’s leadership as hateful and warmongering. By way of the crowd’s applause he has solidified the terrorist talking point that the American people are opposed to their leadership in favor of the leadership coming from the Middle East. Chalk one up for academic freedom. BigT

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