Iranian president says 'uncivilized Zionists' threaten his country

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UNITED NATIONS -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that "uncivilized Zionists" are threatening to attack his country, but he otherwise was silent on the continuing clash between Iran and world powers over the Tehran's disputed nuclear program.

Ahmadinejad, in an address that climaxed days of public and media appearances in New York, focused his remarks on what he described as an unjust international system, built around the United Nations, that oppresses the world in the interests of the West's wealthy minority.

He said his country has "suffered from the agonies of forced aggressions" from countries he didn’t identify. He said that an "arms race and intimidation by nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction by hegemonic powers have become prevalent" and that a "continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality."

He complained that the United Nations has no legitimacy, while praising the Non-Aligned Movement, which met weeks ago in Tehran with the Iranian regime presiding. Ahmadinejad said he spoke for the group.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/iran-president-mahmoud-ahmadinejad-uncivilized-zionists-united-nations.html

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1. Aide to Iran's Ahmadinejad arrested as boss gives U.N. speech

TEHRAN -- Iranian authorities arrested and jailed a top press advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, the culmination of a legal saga that began last year when the aide was convicted of publishing an "offensive" magazine article on how Iranian women should dress.

Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who also headed IRAN Magazine, was banned last year from working in journalism for three years after his publication ran an article exploring the history of Islamic dress, which was critical of women being compelled to wear a head scarf. The piece was deemed contrary to "Islamic principles," leading to charges against Javanfekr for publishing material "offensive to Islamic codes and public morality."

Javanfekr also served as managing editor of the official Islamic Republic News Agency. His conviction last year was seen as an escalation of the feud between Ahmadinejad and other Iranian conservatives, who accuse the president of undermining Islamic values and trying to marginalize clerics.

The arrest was carried out Wednesday while Ahmadinejad was delivering a speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the official news agency reported. Javanfekr was taken to Evin Prison in Tehran to serve his sentence, it said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/iran-arrest.html

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2. Ahmadinejad ally jailed and reformist daily closed in Iranian power struggle

Judicial officials in Iran have jailed the press adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and issued an arrest warrant for the managing director of Shargh, a reformist newspaper shut down over a cartoon deemed insulting.

Ali Akbar Javanfekr, a close ally of the Iranian president and the head of the state Irna news agency, was taken to prison on Wednesday to serve a six-month prison term as Ahmadinejad was addressing the UN general assembly in New York, local agencies reported.

The president's top aide was put on trial last year as the publisher of "materials contrary to Islamic norms", a reference to a series of articles about the chador, the full-length cloak worn by Iranian women.

The judiciary's move against Javanfekr is seen as the latest setback for Ahmadinejad and his team in an extraordinary power struggle at the top of the Iranian regime between conservatives close to the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and those supporting the president .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/27/ahmadinejad-iran-khamenei-power-struggle?newsfeed=true

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3. Ahmadinejad is a dangerous and hate-filled bigot

And nobody should listen to anything he says, much less beleive it

'nuff said.

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4. Thanks for clearing that up. nt