TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.
Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. They show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
"September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV. He called the attacks a "complicated intelligence scenario and act."
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a "big lie."
In 2007, New York officials rejected Ahmadinejad's request to visit the World Trade Center site while he was in the city for a U.N. meeting. The president also sparked an uproar when he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined.
At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were "a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S," and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.
He has also questioned the Sept. 11 death toll of around 3,000, claiming the Americans never published the victims' names.
On the 2007 anniversary of the attacks, the names of 2,750 victims killed in New York were read aloud at a memorial ceremony.


i thought this fit better in the politics section. As well this is something i think most of us no matter your political leanings can concede a unison decision on.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100306/ap_ ... ea/ml_iran

my source.

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Yeah, imagreendinnerjacket is a nutjob, he says inflammatory things to be a douche. I'd be surprised if he said something different about 911.

And now, a lighter side of the iranian leader

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/iran-so-far/169811/

Well he also denies the holocaust....so...

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This.

...didnt south park do something like this?

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one of those whackos eh?

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Iran doesn't stop at just denying the holocaust, they lead the world in it...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6167695.stm

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Whackos? Come on dude. The Holocaust never happened, everyone knows that. Those 11+ million people weren't brutally slaughtered........they were just descendants of David Blaine. They made THEMSELVES disappear......duh!

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Just drop a MOAB or Daisy Cutter on this guys ass. Lets be done with it. Also, take out his boss's, the idiot hardline Imam's in real power, this guy is just a mouth piece for them anyways.
The more I think about this asshole, the more I would like to see him on a reality TV show, "Dropped from 70 thousand feet without a parachute", thats just me though.

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Sickest TV show idea EVER! I wish I had the money to make it happen.

I'd also like to see the opening drop be an uber awesome combo of Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck, Michael Moore, Keith Olberman, that dyke Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher all tied together in one senseless, arrogant, smug prick package. It would make for a very gratifying splat noise at the end.

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