A Playpen for Ahmadinejad
The New York Times
By HELENE COOPER
Published: September 25, 2007
In a hostile environment at Columbia University, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran meandered from science and religion to politics. [...]He said that there were no homosexuals in Iran — not one — and that the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews should not be treated as fact, but theory, and therefore open to debate and more research.
Ahmadinejad Questions 9/11, Holocaust
By NAHAL TOOSI Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Holocaust revisionists and raised questions about who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks in a tense showdown Monday at Columbia University, where the school's head introduced the hard-line leader by calling him a "petty and cruel dictator." [...]He provoked derisive laughter by responding to a question about Iran's execution of homosexuals by saying: "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country ... I don't know who's told you that we have this."
The Guardian
As protesters jeer, Ahmadinejad denies Iran wants nuclear weapons
· President claims country has no gay population
· Bad-tempered exchanges as leader visits US college
Julian Borger in New York and Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Tuesday September 25, 2007
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, told Americans yesterday his country had no nuclear weapons programme, but then called his own credibility into question by insisting it had no gay people either."