“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,
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