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Iranian Prez Flies Into NY Storm

Ahmadinejad arrives in NY amid protests

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 24, 2007 3:39 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York yesterday amid protests and rancor over his schedule of public appearances, including his planned address at Columbia University. In the first of a series of public relations efforts, Ahmadinejad claimed in a television interview that Iran is seeking neither nuclear weapons nor war with the US, AP reports.

"What need do we have for a bomb?" Ahmadinejad asked on "60 Minutes." "In political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use. If it was useful it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union. Why should we go to war?"

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves as he boards his plane leaving Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, for New York to attend the U.N General Assembly. Adm. William Fallon the commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East does not believe current tensions with Iran will lead...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves as he boards his plane leaving Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, for New York to attend the U.N General Assembly. Adm. William Fallon the commander of...   (Associated Press)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reads the Quran, the Muslim holy book, with the head of the supreme leader's office, Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, as he leaves Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007, for New York to attend the U.N General Assembly. Ahmadinejad said Sunday that the American people are eager...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reads the Quran, the Muslim holy book, with the head of the supreme leader's office, Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, as he leaves Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 23,...   (Associated Press)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks as Iran's new Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, looks on during large-scale military parades to mark the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran that sparked the bloody 1980-88 war, in Tehran, Iran on Saturday Sept. 22, 2007. Threats and economic sanctions will...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks as Iran's new Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari, looks on during large-scale military parades to mark the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion...   (Associated Press)
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