Transcript: Ahmadinejad Interview, Part 1

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Source: CBS

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PELLEY: Well, sir, you're the head of government of an Islamist state that the United States government says is a major exporter of terrorism around the world.

AHMADINEJAD: Well, I wouldn't say that what the American government says is the prerequisite here. Something happened there which led to other events. Many innocent people were killed there. Some of those people were American citizens obviously. We obviously are very much against any terrorist action and any killing. And also we are very much against any plots to sow the seeds of discord among nations. Usually you go to these sites to pay your respects. And also to perhaps air your views about the root causes of such incidents. I think that when I do that, I will be paying, as I said earlier, my respect to the American nation.

PELLEY: But the American people, sir, believe that your country is a terrorist nation, exporting terrorism in the world. You must have known that visiting the World Trade Center site would infuriate many Americans, as if to be mocking the American people.

AHMADINEJAD: Well, I'm amazed. How can you speak for the whole of the American nation?

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1. Transcript: Ahmadinejad Interview, Part 2

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PELLEY: Well, the IAEA. You've, in fact, agreed with the IAEA to confess what you've done in secret over the past years. It is not transparent, sir.

AHMADINEJAD: Very good. I think that you are not familiar with the structure and the laws and the regulations of the agency. The agency is supposed to do two things. One, supervision. The other, support for the member states. The agency is supposed to supervise and ask questions and we respond. Interestingly enough, in all agency reports, you will read that there are no signs of diversion on the part of the Iranian people. In no reports. But naturally, the agency has questions to ask. And when it comes to that, interestingly enough, compared to European countries and other countries, the questions they ask us are far fewer. They have scores of questions to ask other countries. But the U.S. and a number of other countries are politicizing matters. They don't want us to progress, to develop. So maybe it would be best if you ask the agency how many questions they have asked the U.S. and European countries for that matter. Scores of questions. Because they are producing bombs, new generations of nuclear bombs, they are fabricating those. And our activities are very peaceful under the supervision of the agency. We have provided the largest amount of cooperation to the agency. And what we are doing is very transparent.

PELLEY: For the sake of clarity, because there is so much concern in the world about this next question, please give me the most direct answer you can. Is it your goal to build a nuclear bomb?

AHMADINEJAD: What are you driving at?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/21/60minutes/main3286706.shtml

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2. Im glad he said something about speaking for all Americans.

That sounds like he doesn't believe we are the problem, rather Bush and our government are the ones that want war so bad. I don't know many people that want war instead of trying to get along, well except for our government.

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3. im sorry

im not trying to be swayed but its so hard to not listen to this man and understand him a little bit better. He definatly sounds sane, but also i'm sure he has rehearsed his speach. He does not sound like a mad man but it is hard for him to answer a direct question. I appreciate his answers and i really liked this bit

Any party who uses national revenues to make a bomb, a nuclear bomb, will make a mistake. Because in political relations right now, the nuclear bomb is of no use. If it was useful, it would have prevented the downfall of the Soviet Union. If it was useful, it would have resolved the problems the Americans have in Iraq. The U.S. has tested new generations of bombs, many thousands of warheads you have in your arsenals. It's of no use.

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4. Notice how Pelley plays the propaganda point man?

Pelley keeps saying that "it's a known fact" that Iranian bombs are in Iraq. For example,

"The American Army has captured Iranian missiles in Iraq. The critical elements of the explosively formed penetrator bombs that are killing so many people are coming from Iran. There's no doubt about that anymore. The denials are no longer credible, sir.

You'd think that, at this late date, when everyone in the world knows that it is whatever bush or one of his lackeys says that is "no longer credible," even CBS would stop its role as propagandist. This is really pathetic. CBS has becoming like Fox -- a joke.

[fenriswolf]

5. love it

iranian bombs, lets just skip the fact that the us army is missing 190,000 weapons or the blackwater weapons smuggling going on. It's the iranians, I love how he gave it to the reporter though to stop speaking for the american people. I just wish we had a president who was as glib as he is or as intelligent.

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6. Reminded me of an interview Putin gave a while back.

More than anything I was struck by how articulate he is compared to Bush. I cannot imagine Bush giving a performace even remotely comparable.

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7. Wow, Pelley is really a bushista, isn't he?

I read the entire transcript and he's really doing his part to gin up a war for bush, isn't he?

Every "question" is just a propaganda point. Here's are just a few examples:

If sanctions do occur, if another round of sanctions occur, you will continue to enrich uranium behind closed doors, I take it.

(Helps paint a "mushroom cloud" for fear.)

People say that you're just trying to gather as much highly-enriched uranium as you possibly can.

(More fear. "Mushroom cloud.")

You can show the world today that you are not pursuing a bomb. All you have to do is give the order. Open your nuclear facilities. Let the United Nations inspectors in there today and prove that there is no bomb program. Why not take that course?

(Pure bullshit -- like Powell and Rumsfeld. The IAEA says there's no sign of any diversion, just like they said about Iraq before bush kicked them out so he could invade.)

Well, Mr. Bush is, without question, a very religious man...

(That's the clincher! Pelley must have semen-stained pictures of bush in his bedroom, and maybe on his office walls too!)

Would an attack on your nuclear sites, in your opinion, give you leave to attack U.S. forces in the region or the U.S. mainland?

(More bellicose questions -- trying to imply a state of war already exists.)

Many Americans, Mr. President, to be frank, believe that you look out that (airplane) window (at the twin towers site) and you say to yourself, "Good. Somebody got 'em."

(This is a ploy to try to place in people's minds the false idea that Iran was behind 9/11, just like so many still believe the falsehood that Iraq was behind it.)

This is really disgusting. Maybe Pelley is itching for a position at Fox, or CBS/Viacom/Westinghouse stands to make a lot of money on another bush war.

[fenriswolf]

8. funny

suprised no one has come in here screaming about us listening to the crazy madman that the corporate news media all say he is. think this interview will hurt the administrations effort to go to war with iran.

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9. This ius not an interview..It is an ambush, an attack, Pelley is an ass

Only a handful are insulted about Iran's leader visiting the WTC site. The American public know the difference between a terrorist and a Muslim. Believing in Islam does not make you a terrorists. This intervies is insulting to the American Public and Pelley is framing it like an ambush of a suspected terrorist. They didn't treat Putkin like that or the Shaw of Iran who was a terrorist to his own people. It's downright embarrassing to have this interview suggest that the rational people of America see this request to visit this tragic site as anything but paying respects. Pelley should be fired for conducting himself so disrespectfully to the leader of a ME nation. Hell, Bush has had the family of the Bin Laddens over for dinner. Iran has never supported al qaeda. The NYCPD needs to stop following in Guiliani's footsteps thinking that all people who believe in Islam attacked us on 9/11. They didn't. Nor did Muslims. It was terrorist calling themselves al qaeda and they should know the difference. Pelley's inuendo is shameful and disrespectful, prejudiced, biased, and downright ignorant. How I wish I could have been there to set him straight when he asked such loaded and slanted questions. Is this what passes for diplomacy? Is this just more of the plan to instigate war with Iran, by implication..."Well, you're of the Islamic faith, you have criticized America, therefore you must be a terrorist, and must have been part of who attacked us on 9/11". What an insulting assnine interview and interviewer. He certainly doesn't speak for this American.

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10. wow Pelley is a freaking propaganda whore !! -eom-