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“Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.
With deference to all nations and followers of divine religions, we are asking if this atrocity is true, then why the people of the region should pay for it by occupation of Palestinian lands and unending suppression of Palestinian people, by homelessness of millions of Palestinians, by destruction of their cities and rural areas and agricultural lands.
Why should they pay by fire, bullets and imposition of forces? And why should they pay by tolerating occupation of Islamic lands? Are the consequences of the establishment of this regime less than the Holocaust you are claiming?
If there are doubts regarding the Holocaust, there is really no doubt regarding Palestinian disaster and Holocaust. The Holocaust in Palestine has persisted for more than sixty years.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2006, 2006 International Qods Conference address

“We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten — forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Columbia University speech, 24 September 2007
[24 September 2007, http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/202820.php, "Iran's president at Columbia University - a transcript", azstarnet.com, 2007-09-25]
2007

“The brave and faithful people of Iran too have many questions and grievances, including: the coup d’etat of 1953 and the subsequent toppling of the legal government of the day, opposition to the Islamic revolution, transformation of an Embassy into a headquarters supporting the activities of those opposing the Islamic Republic (many thousands of pages of documents corroborate this claim), support for Saddam in the war waged against Iran, the shooting down of the Iranian passenger plane, freezing the assets of the Iranian nation, increasing threats, anger and displeasure vis-à-vis the scientific and nuclear progress of the Iranian nation (just when all Iranians are jubilant and celebrating their country’s progress), and many other grievances that I will not refer to in this letter.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraph 23
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

“We do not accept or officially recognise Israel. They are occupiers and illegitimate. But our approach is humanitarian. I ask you where is the Soviet Union now - has it been wiped out or not? It vanished without a war. Let the Palestinian people chose. It will happen.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Interview with Jon Snow on Channel 4 News , 12 September 2007
[12 September 2007, http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/international_politics/full+transcript+ahmadinejad+interview/797347, "Channel 4 - News - Full Transcript: Ahmadinejad interview", channel4.com/news, 2007-09-27]
2007

“The existence of the Zionist regime is tantamount to imposition of an unending and unrestrained threat so that none of the nations and Islamic countries of the region and beyond can feel secure from its threat. The closer these nations are to the epicenter of this threat, the more threatened they feel. The people of Palestine are at the very core of such a threat. They have not been able to spend a day with peace of mind for the past sixty years. Three generations of sons and daughters of Palestinians have lived and are presently living under these circumstances. The peoples of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the entire Middle East are essentially under similar situation.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2006, 2006 International Qods Conference address

“There are prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that have not been tried, have no legal representation, their families cannot see them and are obviously kept in a strange land outside their own country. There is no international monitoring of their conditions and fate. No one knows whether they are prisoners, POWs, accused or criminals. European investigators have confirmed the existence of secret prisons in Europe too.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraphs 6-7
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

“My former health minister, Kamran Bagheri Lankarani, is like a peach. I love to eat him.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world-article.php?yyyy=2009&mm=08&dd=24&nav_id=61346 2009

“Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraph 25
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

“In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. […] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Q&A after Columbia speech, 24 September 2007, when asked about executions of homosexuals in Iran
[Nahal, Toosi, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_re_us/iran_us, Ahmadinejad questions 9/11, Holocaust, Associated Press (via Yahoo! News), 24 September 2007, 2007-09-24]
2007

“Who had used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, killing, injuring and displacing millions of people. Whose military spending exceeded $1,000 billion dollars annually — more than the military budgets of all countries in the world combined? Who dominated the policy-making establishments of the world’s economy, as well as the Security Council, which was ostensibly responsible for safeguarding international security? Do these arrogant Powers really have the competence and ability to run or govern the world? “Can the flower of democracy bloom from [North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s] missiles, bombs and guns?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

2011

“September eleven was not a simple operation. Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services—or their extensive infiltration?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraph 24
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006

“They [the US] get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Commenting on the weak U.S. Dollar at the OPEC Summit, 18 November 2007 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7101050.stm. 2007

“Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

September 18, 2009. http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2247.htm 2009

“I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Discussion with reporters at the UN, September 21, 2007. Situation room, CNN, 21 September 2007, 2007-09-28 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/21/sitroom.02.html, 2007

“The United States has never entered a serious war, and has never been victorious.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

September 21, 2010 interview http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/ahmadinejad-when-a-war-starts-it-knows-no-limits/63312/ 2010

“We thank God that our enemies are idiots.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

6 February 2006
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/06/wiran06.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_06022006
2006

“They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets. The West has given more significance to the myth of the genocide of candy man the Jews, even more significant than God, religion, and the prophets, (it) deals very severely with those who deny this myth but does not do anything to those who deny God, religion, and the prophet. If you have burned the Jews, why don't you give a piece of Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska to Israel? Our question is, if you have committed this huge crime, why should the innocent nation of Palestine pay for this crime?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Translation by CNN, Dec 2005
2005, The World without Zionism, 2005

“Last year, when the need to form a fact-finding team to undertake a thorough investigation concerning the hidden elements involved in September 11 incident was brought up; an idea also endorsed by all independent governments and nations as well as by the majority in the United States, my country and myself came under pressure and threat by the government of the United States. Instead of assigning a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator and threw his body into the sea. Would it not have been reasonable to bring to justice and openly bring to trial the main perpetrator of the incident in order to identify the elements behind the safe space provided for the invading aircraft to attack the twin world trade towers? Why should it not have been allowed to bring him to trial to help recognize those who launched terrorist groups and brought wars and other miseries into the region? Is there any classified information that must be kept secret?”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Speech to the United Nations General Assembly (22 September 2011). http://gadebate.un.org/node/186 2011

“The world powers established this filthy bacteria, the Zionist regime [Israel], which is lashing out at the nations in the region like a wild beast.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Comments during a rally in southern Iran
[Michal, Lando, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203343707673&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull, Ahmadinejad: Israel filthy bacteria, Jerusalem Post, 20 February 2008, 2008-02-23]
2008

“Can one be a follower of Jesus Christ… and have countries attacked. The lives, reputations and possessions of people destroyed and on the slight chance of the presence of a few criminals in a village, city, or convoy for example, the entire village, city or convoy set ablaze.”

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Paragraph 2
2006, Letter to George W. Bush, 2006