Khatami the Moderate Curses Israeli Reporters
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 3:33 pm PDT • Views: 355
Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, who visited Harvard University and the National Cathedral recently, was celebrated by the Council on American Islamic Relations, gave an autograph to John F. Kerry in Davos, and has been roundly praised by the willfully blind media as a “moderate,” told Israeli journalists who approached him at a media forum in Kazakhstan to “go to hell.”
Iran’s former president also said that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was overseeing Iran’s nuclear activity, and pointed out that Iran was a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, while “other states in the Middle East” were treated differently.
“Why do other countries have the right to atomic energy, and we don’t?” he asked, noting that “pressure should be applied to [the] Middle East states that already possess nuclear weapons.”
While talking informally with former US Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrook on Thursday, Khatami said that once a new administration was elected, he was ready to travel to the US to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.
Nevertheless, despite his calls for “dialogue,” Khatami refused to speak to the Israeli reporters present at the talks.
Channel 10 later reported that Khatami, heading for his suite, had cursed them, saying, “Go to hell!”
On Friday, Khatami decided to skip the scheduled panel on Iran’s nuclear program because an Israeli representative was slated to speak.
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