Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia Webcast info

Transcript of remarks by Ahmadinejad:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/24/AR2007092401042.html?nav=rss_nation

C-Span archive videos on Ahmadinejad:

http://www.c-span.org/Search/advanced.asp?AdvancedQueryText=Ahmadinejad&StartDateMonth=&StartDateYear=&EndDateMonth=&QueryTextOptions=&EndDateYear=&ProgramIssue=&Series=&QueryType=&ResultCount=10&SortBy=date&

C-Span and C-Span 3 will have Ahmadinejad live at 1:30 P.M.

http://www.c-span.org/watch/

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspanradio.asp?Cat=Series&Code=CSR&ShowVidNum=30&Rot_Cat_CD=&Rot_HT=&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=30&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30

Following is working and can see the program live.

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan3_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS3

Above may have ability to see video at other times.

Following links may or may not work, but suggest they might.

http://www.cutelevision.org/CTV+Online/Watch+Live/

http://www.cutelevision.org

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/ahmadinejad/

According to last link:

WCBS-TV is broadcasting live Ahmadinejad’s session at the World Leaders Forum at 1:30. Go to http://wcbstv.com/.

http://worldleaders.columbia.edu/index.html
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http://worldleaders.columbia.edu/events.html

Monday, September 24, 2007, 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs

A keynote address followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Moderator

• John H. Coatsworth, Acting Dean, School of International and Public Affairs

Question and Answer

During the program, cards will be distributed to members of the audience, so that they may submit questions for the speaker. If you were unable to register for the event but would still like to submit a question, please email your question to worldleaders@columbia.edu with the subject line, “Question for the President of Iran.” Due to the large volume of questions, we cannot guarantee that yours will be read at the event. Thank you.

Registration for this program is closed.

Due to security restrictions, only those on the registration list will be able to gain admission to this event. There will be no waitlist for registration or standby line, and no walk-in guests will be permitted on the day of the event.

Webcast info here

http://worldleaders.columbia.edu/help.html

Ahmadinejad embassy Google image search

Columbia statements on the visit and talk:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/09/sipairan2.html

60 Minutes interview

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/21/60minutes/main3286706.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/20/60minutes/main3282230.shtml

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley spoke with Ahmadinejad on Thursday in the garden outside his office in Tehran. Pelley spoke to the president about America’s angry reaction to his plan to visit the World Trade Center site.

“The American Army has captured Iranian missiles in Iraq. The critical elements of the explosively formed penetrator bombs that are killing so many people are coming from Iran. There’s no doubt about that anymore. The denials are no longer credible, sir,” Pelley pointed out.

“Very good. If I may. Are you an American politician? Am I to look at you as an American politician or a reporter? This is what the American officials are claiming,” Ahmadinejad replied. “If they accuse us 1,000 times, the truth will not change.”

“Are you saying that it is not the policy of this government to send weapons into Iraq? Sir, forgive me, you’re smiling, but this is a very serious matter to America,” Pelley said.

“Well, it’s serious for us as well. I daresay it’s serious for everyone,” Ahmadinejad told Pelley. “It seems to me it’s laughable for someone to turn a blind eye to the truth and accuse others. It doesn’t help. And the reason that I’m smiling, again, it’s because that the picture is so clear. But American officials refuse to see it.”

Asked if he could very simply and directly say that Iran is not sending weapons to Iraq, Ahmadinejad said, “We don’t need to do that. We are very much opposed to war and insecurity…”

“Is that a ‘No,’ sir?” Pelley asked.

“…by Iraq. It’s very clear the situation. The insecurity in Iraq is detrimental to our interests,” Ahmadinejad said.

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“What religion, please tell me, tells you as a follower of that religion to occupy another country and kill its people, please tell me, does Christianity tell its followers to do that?” Ahmadinejad asked.

Does this question arise from a secret fatwa or finding that Islam commands that Iran fight the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan? He laughed and smiled when he asked this question to the reporter, especially around his eyes in his way. Was this because he knew of a secret fatwa finding that Iran must fight the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Does such a secret fatwa state that the Islamic Republic of Iran is at war with the United States of America? Is the President of Iran engaging in the tactic of deception at time of war in his interview with 60 Minutes, his talk at Columbia, and his address at the United Nations? Are we in fact, at war with Iran?

Has Iran also found that it is at war with all allied countries in either Iraq or Afghanistan? Does that include with NATO in Afghanistan? Does that include with Germany and France in Afghanistan as well as the United Kingdom? Does that include Australia? Other countries supplying forces or assistance in either of those two countries?

You can read the transcript in full.

Questions that might be asked:

1. Is Iran already at war with the United States?
2. Was the President of Iran at the US embassy in 1979?
3. Did he interrogate, meet, see, guard, etc. US prisoners?
4. Is Iran supplying arms to the insurgents in Iran to use against US troops?
5. Does Iran consider the U.S. impotent?
6. In his 60 Minutes interview, he asked the reporter if any religion in the world commands its followers to subjugate another country or fight in another country. Does Islam command that? Does Islam command that Iran fight in Iraq now? Has a finding/fatwa been prepared, approved or accepted by Iran’s Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Khamenei to the effect that Iran is fighting the U.S. in Iraq as an Islamic act? Or that it is Islamic?
7. Does the fatwa also require that Iran fight the U.S. in Afghanistan? Does it say Islam commands this or that it is Islamic?
8. Does the same apply to Iran acquiring nuclear capabilities?
9. Striking Israel?
10. Does the U.S. have to have a draft of 2 million men for Iran to take the U.S. seriously? Until then the U.S. is impotent?
11. Does Iran rely on its Russian supplied anti-ship Sunburn missiles to sink U.S. carriers and close the Persian Gulf to naval traffic and cut off the U.S. army in Iraq and in Kuwait?

60 Minutes did the right thing to interview the President of Iran. Columbia University is doing the right thing to invite him to its forum and to treat him with the respect he deserves as the President of Iran. It is important to watch the 60 Minutes broadcast, or read the transcript, and see or read about the talk at Columbia and the one at the U.N.

Columbia is giving an opportunity for questions to be submitted. This is valuable for the American people at this critical moment. This is a very important public service for the country and the West.

==Add 9:19 PM

http://marcys-musings.blogspot.com/2007/09/iran-are-we-already-at-war.html

Marcy Muser:

Robert Tracinski has a disturbing article today on RealClearPolitics, entitled, “The Buildup to a U.S.-Iran War.”

Here is his first paragraph:

For more than a year now, I have been arguing that war with Iran is inevitable, that our only choice is how long we wait to fight it, and that the only question is what cost we will suffer for putting off the necessary confrontation with the Islamic Republic.

Despite the title, the content of the article makes it clear that the author thinks Iran is already at war with us, whether we choose to believe it and respond to it or not.

We can see the service that 60 Minutes and Columbia University are providing. If we are already at war, Columbia University can do no better than to educate us as to that.

==UN Webcast info

Text of address, apparently prepared in advance in English by the Islamic Republic of Iran:

http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/2007/pdfs/iran-eng.pdf

The following appear to actually work.

http://www.un.org/webcast/

http://www.un.org/webcast/ga.html

Ahmadinejad will address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday 25 September, 2007.

http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/

15:00 – 19:00 Afternoon Session

Iran is 6th on this session. This may be when Ahmadinejad speaks. There are 15 countries listed in that session. The ratio 6/15 reduces to 2/5. So 2/5 of 4 hours he should speak approximately. That is 8/5 hours or 1 3/5 hours. So that would be at 16:36 i.e. 4:36 P.M.

==”The Evil has Landed”

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=%22the+evil+has+landed%22&btnG=Google+Search

== Lee Bollinger at Columbia

“Does Iran plan to wipe us off the map too?”