Ahmadinejad's Visit: The Iranian Take

We’ll admit it, we were curious how Mahmoud Ahmadinejad‘s speech at Columbia played out in the Iranian press. To no one’s surprise, the contents of Lee Bollinger‘s speech criticizing Ahmadinejad were whitewashed out for the home audience:

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.

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