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Iran’s Ahmadinejad sounds defiant note before U.N. visit – LA Times

22 September 2009 224 views One Comment

“Reporting from Cairo and Tehran – Hours before he left Tehran on Tuesday for the United Nations, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was his usual combative self: threatening to cut the hands off would-be invaders and calling the U.S. military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan an insult to the region.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran23-2009sep23,0,3306791.story

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the annual military parade which marks Irans eight-year war with Iraq. (Atta Kenare, AFP/Getty Images / September 22, 2009)

LA Times - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the annual military parade which marks Iran's eight-year war with Iraq. (Atta Kenare, AFP/Getty Images / September 22, 2009)


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  • admin (author) said:

    I remember Saddam Hussein also being “combative” and uncooperative prior to the unjust U.S. invasion of Iraq. Coincidence?

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