Manhattan, NY – According to UN diplomats who requested anonymity, the president of Iran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, has applied for a U.S. visa to attend a high-level nuclear nonproliferation conference that begins at UN headquarters in New York City on Monday.
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Ahmadinejad, it has been reported, wants to speak at the conference on its opening day. By coincidence or not, that’s the same day that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will deliver her remarks at the conference.
If Ahmadinejad is issued a U.S. visa (a done deal if he has, indeed, applied), it will be his fifth trip to New York but the first one outside of the opening session of the UN General Assembly, which usually takes place every September.
Ahmadinejad has addressed the UN General Assembly every year from 2006 to 2009. In September 2007, he also made a controversial appearance at New York City’s Columbia University. He has reportedly requested on at least two occasions to travel outside New York City to meet with Iranian diaspora representatives in the United States, but his requests have been denied by the U.S. State Department.
Foreign dignitaries visiting New York on official UN business are usually confined to a 40-kilometer radius of the greater New York City area.
Ahmadinejad’s efforts to speak at the UN conference are viewed as an attempt to gather support against possible new sanctions in the UN Security Council for Tehran’s refusal to disclose the details of its uranium-enrichment program. Three of the Security Council’s five permanent members — Britain, France and the United States — see this program as part of Iran’s attempt to develop nuclear weapons.
The other two permanent members — China and Russia — have extensive trade relations with Iran and have traditionally been more reluctant to impose new sanctions.
keep him out!
He should be taken from the airport and locked up in the White House basement.
Oy vey!!
Obama and Ahmadinejad, both in one week…..
That’s terrible!
Williamsburgh and BP is within the 40 mile radius .
Achmed-Do-Your-Job should be treated just like any other illegal alien in our country: Give him welfare, food stamps, free medical, etc. Maybe he will see how nice (and stupid) Americans really are and won’t want to leave!
Attach him to a missle and send him back to Iran.
#5 good point!
Obama would love to have Achmadumbajob sleep at the white house so that they could exchange dictator stories.
He does not want to meet NK anymore cause he relized NK people are nobody, that is why he refused to meet NK on his last visit.
Poor NK now even the biggest anti-Zionist doesn’t want to meet you!
I hope the ash over europe takes down his plane right into the alantic ocean!
It’s no coincidence he wants to talk the same day as hillary. he’s out to date her. watch it glow.
and keep out if you know whats good for you
Let him come with the plane the polish president went lately
Both Ahmadinejad and Obama are “solidly” in the Holocaust Denier camp. They believe that Israel EXISTS primarily “as a result of the [mythical] Holocaust.” IN other words, the State of Israel was created by the UN to be a “bone thrown to the dog” after WWII.
How does this work in the Big Picture: Deny the Holocaust = Deny Israel. Period. That is the Damnable Linkage. This is precisely the “Horse” that the Islamo-Fascists, Iranian Lunatics, and Obama are riding.
I wonder if all the Jews protesting and davening for Rubashkin will do anything about this? will they take time off of their “jobs” to protest a man who calls for their extermination?
probably not, since no one will be paying the tab.
I cry for my people- we have not only no Moshe Rabbeinu, but no Gadolim who can lead us against those who dislike us (Obama) and those who hate us (this Iranian).
so sad.