President Ahmadinejad Speech

Farhad2000

Besides this video and it's content.

I really love the Farsi language, as it forms the linguistic basis of my own mother tongue. It takes me back every time I hear it spoken.

aidos

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it's funny how it takes you pointing that out for me to actually stop and listen to language. I like the video for the content in any case.

gwaan

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You're right Farhad - it is a beautiful language!

I agree with his opposition to a British/American power monopoly. And I agree with his support of the Palestinians, the Lebanese, and the Shi'a in Iraq, and in a number of Gulf states. However, this support can be provided without resorting to antisemitism or calling for the destruction of Israel.

I think Iran should have nuclear power if they want it. I hate the West's double standards - they condemn Iran but remain completely silent about Israel's illegal uninspected nuclear arsenal. Iran has a right to defend itself, and if any country in the Middle East is responsible for an arms build-up it is Israel. The international community should be puting enormous pressure on Israel to scrap its nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal. Unless they do so, other nations will feel threatened and will seek a nuclear deterant of their own. And i get sick of people trying to justify Israel's arsenal and it's aggressive behaviour by reference to the holocaust. The holocaust was a terrible crime - one of the worst in human history - but one crime should not justify others. Israel's continued attempts to steal Palestinian land, to suppress, abuse, and kill the Palestinian people, and to silence all critics in America via AIPAC, only increases animosity and anger in the region - all of which make an arms race more likely. Furthermore their collective punishment of the Lebanese, and the recent disclosure that they had planned to invade Lebanon months before the Israeli soldiers were kidnapped (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BF690E95-D297-45CD-942F-A3D6E18B05D2.htm) also makes all of Israel's regional neighbours scared.

However, if Ahmadinejad had done more to fight corruption and re-distribute oil funds to those who need it - as he promised in his election campaign - then Iran wouldn't need nuclear power for domestic reasons. He also has regional power aspirations - understandable considering the historical persecution of the Shi'a - which this clip does not mention.

westy

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lol i dont like the language persay annymore than anny other i just think that President Ahmadinejad has a soft voice and a good way of speeking.

BicycleRepairMan

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While his points made on western TV is very humble and peace-loving, borderlining hippie, lets not forget that this man is a deeply religous islamist who runs Iran with a hard fist. There is no free speech in iran. Alot of its laws are deeply unfriendly towards women for instance. (admittedly things are improving, and some of the most unfair laws are sleeping laws in the modern parts.) I'm just saying, most of us dont want a world ruled by people like him either. Islam, when practiced according to the laws of the Quran, is, just like other judean religions, fascism. The "first law"* of these religions are to shun all criticism and thinking.

*Actually, according to the ten commandments, in the finest Fight Club style, its more like the six first laws.

BarryMcCawqiner

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This is mere rhetoric, as usual from a theocratic dictatorship. Iran supports a great deal of the shia militias in Iraq, as well as terrorist groups throughout the mid-east (Hizbollah especially). There is GOOD reason for preventing the Iranian government from obtaining nuclear weapons, and it is not a double-standard. While opposition to Pres Bush can be seen as reasonable, it is absurd to assume that nations opposed to the US are well-intentioned.

aidos

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that's all well and good but please try and keep in mind the context of the arguments that he makes.

you'll often hear people say that that Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map but it takes only a few moments on wikipedia to understand how that particular discussion has been blown out of proportion.