Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• Columbia University
• Controversy
• Matthew Thomas

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Islamic Student Associations Conference October
26, 2005

• Ahmadinejad Our dear Imam Ayatollah Khomeini
  said that the occupying regime must be wiped off
  the map.
• BushWhere wings take dream."
• Bush Those who enter the country illegally
  violate the law."

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Assistant Secretary of State Sean McCormack Press
Briefing

• Well, we -- our people in Baghdad with the
  Multinational Forces over the weekend had a
  background briefing in which they passed out a
  lot of information to reporters It included
  pictures of weapons that are clearly manufactured
  in Iran.
• they presented a circumstantial case, The
  Iranians are up to their eyeballs in this
  activity I think very clearly based on the
  information that was provided So beyond that
  I'm not going to try to embellish that briefing,
  which I think it was a pretty good briefing.

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Pictures of Evidence

• Capt. Combs said the copper caps were smooth and
  perfectly symmetrical, suggesting they had been
  made with a high degree of technical precision.
  He said he didn't know where the caps came from
  or whether they had been made in Iran. "That's
  the hard thing about this war," he said.

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Nuclear

• We are a member of the International Atomic
  Energy Agency. The Bi-law of the agency states
  that all member states have the right to the
  peaceful nuclear fuel technology. We are one of
  the countries that have provided the most
  cooperation to the IAEA inspections and their
  reports indicate that Irans activity is peaceful
  and there are no deviations

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Otto Von Bismarck

• Be polite write diplomatically even in a
  declaration of war observe the rules of
  politeness. (Busch, 1898)

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References

• Busch, Moritz. Bismarck Secret pages in his
  history. London, Macmillan and Company, 1898
• Fathi, Nazila, (October 30, 2005). Text of
  Mahmoud Ahmadinejads Speech. Retrieved
  September 26, 2007 from
  http//www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/weekinreview/30i
  ran.html
• McCormack, Sean, (February 12, 2007). Daily Press
  Briefing. Retrieved September 25, 2007 from
  http//www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2007/80442.htm