Ahmadinejad Headed Back To New York City
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President Ahmadinejad of Iran is planning another visit to New York to attend the next U.N. General Assembly, the Jerusalem Post reported on its Web site.
Mr. Ahmadinejad announced on Iranian state television yesterday that he would attend the meeting to defend Iran’s rights and to propose changes to what he called the “unjust” Western system of administering international organizations, the Jersualem Post report said.
The meeting is expected to take place in September.
It will be Mr. Ahmadinejad’s first visit to America since he spoke at Columbia University last September. It was there that the university’s president, Lee Bollinger, introduced Mr. Ahmadinejad as a leader who displayed “all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator.” The visit sparked an outcry from thousands of protestors outside of U.N. headquarters.
Mr. Ahmadinejad has attended every annual U.N. General Assembly meeting since he was elected in 2005.
