Well, it looks like Ahmadinejad played true to form yesterday at the UN with comments that inspired twenty delegates to walk out on him whilst he was ranting away. Predictably, the focus of his rant was the Israeli state that he described as a pre-text for Jewish suffering during World War Two.
It certainly isn't the worst insult that he has broad sided the Israeli's with over the years. That medal surely goes to his speech to a conference in 2005 entitled, 'The world without Zionism' in which he called for Israel to be wiped off the map.
Just because he was invited to the UN does not mean he was going to come out with something remotely resembling reason. Why even bother walking out in the first place? The American example was far more practical, they didn't bother turning up and saved themselves the cost of a motorcade.
Asking Ahmadinejad to talk at an anti-racism conference must be akin to Saddam asking Dubya to have given supporting evidence during his trial for war crimes.
One could say that his speech was in response to recent threats by the Israeli military-intelligence establishment to give Iran a bit of a drubbing with its F-15s if it does not stop its 'nuclear enrichment' programme.
Unfortunately, Ahmaninejad is fairly keen for Iran to acquire a nuclear capability in the near future to rival the Israeli's (perhaps even wipe them off the map) but also to follow the late Ayatollah Khomeini's insistence, following the Iran-Iraq ceasefire, that Iran should develop for itself a nuclear capability.
Given the President's loyalty to the edicts of the late Ayatolloh and the current progress of Iran's Uranium enrichment programme it has been estimated that Ahmaninejad will have allowed Iran to have a nuclear warhead capability early next year. That is an unnerving prospect given the stepped up Israeli rhetoric in recent weeks.
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