Ahmadinejad sees the Zionist conspiracy everywhere
Our good friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sees the hand of the Zionists at work everywhere, from Germany’s foolish insistence that there was a Holocaust, to whether or not he can attend the World Cup, via Reuters:
In an interview with Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine, Ahmadinejad said he doubted Germans were allowed to write “the truth” about the Holocaust and said he was still considering traveling to Germany for the World Cup soccer tournament.
“I believe the German people are prisoners of the Holocaust. More than 60 million were killed in World War Two … The question is: Why is it that only Jews are at the center of attention?,” he said in the interview published on Sunday. “How long is this going to go on?” he added. “How long will the German people be held hostage to the Zionists?… Why should you feel obligated to the Zionists? You’ve paid reparations for 60 years and will have to pay for another 100 years.”….”We say if the Holocaust happened, then the Europeans must accept the consequences and the price should not be paid by Palestine. If it did not happen, then the Jews must return to where they came from.”…
Iran’s first World Cup match is against Mexico in Nuremberg on June 11 two days after the tournament starts and German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says he would be welcome to come because Germany wants to be a good host. The invitation sparked protests from other political leaders and groups who said his anti-Israeli comments were unacceptable….He said he could not understand why his possible visit had caused such debate but was not surprised by the row. “I was not at all surprised because there is a very active worldwide network of Zionists, also in Europe,” he said in the rare interview with Western media that was published on Sunday.
Meanwhile, in other news, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei praised Ahmadinejad’s dawa to George Bush, and the NYT has something of a puff piece on Ahmadinejad today that says he is “ideologically flexible” and that he “has emerged as a proponent of women’s rights.” Go figure.