Iranian president spars with academics in NY
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with an American university president who called him a "petty and cruel dictator" at a forum on Monday where Ahmadinejad criticized Israel and the United States and said Iran was a peaceful nation.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tehran is neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States in a television interview ahead of an appearance at Columbia University on Monday
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad broke away from events at the U.N. General Assembly to hold an informal question-and-answer session with high-powered members of America's most prestigious foreign policy think tank &#151; despite objections from some Jewish groups and the Bush administration.
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Iranian president says he wants friendship with Washington, despite mounting speculation over possible US strikes against Tehran.
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After railing against U.S. global  dominance at the United Nations this week, hard-line Iranian  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared with some of his  most-prominent American critics to debate issues including  Iran's nuclear program and his denial of the Holocaust.
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TEHRAN, Dec 16 (IPS) - By hosting an international conference on the  Holocaust this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad succeeded in  doing what he does best-- outraging the West and taunting the  Israeli state. But he has also got the small community of Iranian  Jews worried.
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Ahmadinejad says talk of strikes is propaganda tool, as protests dog his visit to New York.
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Iran's president is expected to be the target of a lawsuit which accuses him of inciting genocide against Israel.
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A former Iranian president criticized hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic policy on Friday, saying it was a serious issue that may harm the clerical establishment.
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Iran's hard-line president, who has berated the United States and refused to compromise on his nuclear program, is now softening his tone, saying Monday he wants dialogue rather than confrontation in Iraq. Tehran also denied it gave sophisticated weapons to militants to attack U.S. forces.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday rejected the congressional testimony of the top U.S. officials in Iraq accusing Iran of interfering in its war-torn neighbor.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to address one of New York&#39;s top universities during a visit to the city for the United Nations General Assembly next week, the university said.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 24 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was greeted with protests Monday as he prepared to address university students and speak before the U.N. General Assembly.
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Iran's president has reminded Iranians that matters such as nuclear policy are ultimately decided by the supreme leader not him, words analysts say may be aimed at deflecting criticism and denying a leadership rift.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday denied reports that Iran had slowed down its atomic work, which the West fears is aimed at making nuclear bombs.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is poised to deliver a defiant address to the United Nations general assembly this week amid a storm of opposition to his visit to New York and growing international alarm over his country's nuclear ambitions.
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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."