Charlie Rose

Preston  10/04/2008 03:30 PM Report

Hmmm. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. So thanks sock puppet; for pretending to be me. I hope you achieved your (wetaudid) goal... Now, on a more serious note, comment made by Paul A Kelley, is the most sober, real comment on this interview and most closely mirrors my and the rest of the sane world's view (believe me, I know. Don't ask me how I know. I just know.). As evidenced by my (slightly sarcastic, and very funny) comment about the nice, innocent, well-intentioned genetically-engineered talking monkey of the future returning from Mars to share with us his very important findings and information that he had acquired on his very important journey into the unknown for the good of human-kind... Now I ask you, who has a problem with that. Who has a problem? With peace, love, and understanding!

G  09/28/2008 03:52 AM Report

No matter your political stance on this man, remember, personally, all emotional response to Ahmadinjad is wasted. His brains development is exceptional but faulty: when verbal reasoning becomes the dominate force in a personality it smothers the brains development of emotional intellect, making words themselves the foundation behind interpersonal communication rather than the feelings from which words sprout. It is this habit that leads him to psychopathy.

Oleg : to Mr. concerned Read one more time there no such things as jewish nation!!!!!  09/26/2008 05:49 AM Report

Of all the national heroes who have arisen from among the Jewish people over the generations, fate has not been kind to Dahia al-Kahina, a leader of the Berbers in the Aures Mountains. Although she was a proud Jewess, few Israelis have ever heard the name of this warrior-queen who, in the seventh century C.E., united a number of Berber tribes and pushed back the Muslim army that invaded North Africa. It is possible that the reason for this is that al-Kahina was the daughter of a Berber tribe that had converted to Judaism, apparently several generations before she was born, sometime around the 6th century C.E. According to the Tel Aviv University historian, Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of "Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi?" ("When and How the Jewish People Was Invented?"; Resling, in Hebrew), the queen's tribe and other local tribes that converted to Judaism are the main sources from which Spanish Jewry sprang. This claim that the Jews of North Africa originated in indigenous tribes that became Jewish - and not in communities exiled from Jerusalem - is just one element of the far- reaching argument set forth in Sand's new book. In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the fourth century) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the eighth century).Unlike other "new historians" who have tried to undermine the assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin, but rather is a colorful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion. He argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues, the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking: "There were times when if anyone argued that the Jews belong to a people that has gentile origins, he would be classified as an anti-Semite on the spot. Today, if anyone dares to suggest that those who are considered Jews in the world ... have never constituted and still do not constitute a people or a nation - he is immediately condemned as a hater of Israel." According to Sand, the description of the Jews as a wandering and self-isolating nation of exiles, "who wandered across seas and continents, reached the ends of the earth and finally, with the advent of Zionism, made a U-turn and returned en masse to their orphaned homeland," is nothing but "national mythology." Like other national movements in Europe, which sought out a splendid Golden Age, through which they invented a heroic past - for example, classical Greece or the Teutonic tribes - to prove they have existed since the beginnings of history, "so, too, the first buds of Jewish nationalism blossomed in the direction of the strong light that has its source in the mythical Kingdom of David." So when, in fact, was the Jewish people invented, in Sand's view? At a certain stage in the 19th century, intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people "retrospectively," out of a thirst to create a modern Jewish people. From historian Heinrich Graetz on, Jewish historians began to draw the history of Judaism as the history of a nation that had been a kingdom, became a wandering people and ultimately turned around and went back to its birthplace. Actually, most of your book does not deal with the invention of the Jewish people by modern Jewish nationalism, but rather with the question of where the Jews come from. Sand: "My initial intention was to take certain kinds of modern historiographic materials and examine how they invented the 'figment' of the Jewish people. But when I began to confront the historiographic sources, I suddenly found contradictions. And then that urged me on: I started to work, without knowing where I would end up. I took primary sources and I tried to examine authors' references in the ancient period - what they wrote about conversion." Sand, an expert on 20th-century history, has until now researched the intellectual history of modern France (in "Ha'intelektual, ha'emet vehakoah: miparashat dreyfus ve'ad milhemet hamifrats" - "Intellectuals, Truth and Power, From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War"; Am Oved, in Hebrew). Unusually, for a professional historian, in his new book he deals with periods that he had never researched before, usually relying on studies that present unorthodox views of the origins of the Jews. Experts on the history of the Jewish people say you are dealing with subjects about which you have no understanding and are basing yourself on works that you can't read in the original. "It is true that I am an historian of France and Europe, and not of the ancient period. I knew that the moment I would start dealing with early periods like these, I would be exposed to scathing criticism by historians who specialize in those areas. But I said to myself that I can't stay just with modern historiographic material without examining the facts it describes. Had I not done this myself, it would have been necessary to have waited for an entire generation. Had I continued to deal with France, perhaps I would have been given chairs at the university and provincial glory. But I decided to relinquish the glory." Inventing the Diaspora "After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people remained faithful to it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom" - thus states the preamble to the Israeli Declaration of Independence. This is also the quotation that opens the third chapter of Sand's book, entitled "The Invention of the Diaspora." Sand argues that the Jewish people's exile from its land never happened. "The supreme paradigm of exile was needed in order to construct a long-range memory in which an imagined and exiled nation-race was posited as the direct continuation of 'the people of the Bible' that preceded it," Sand explains. Under the influence of other historians who have dealt with the same issue in recent years, he argues that the exile of the Jewish people is originally a Christian myth that depicted that event as divine punishment imposed on the Jews for having rejected the Christian gospel. "I started looking in research studies about the exile from the land - a constitutive event in Jewish history, almost like the Holocaust. But to my astonishment I discovered that it has no literature. The reason is that no one exiled the people of the country. The Romans did not exile peoples and they could not have done so even if they had wanted to. They did not have trains and trucks to deport entire populations. That kind of logistics did not exist until the 20th century. From this, in effect, the whole book was born: in the realization that Judaic society was not dispersed and was not exiled." If the people was not exiled, are you saying that in fact the real descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians? "No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendents. The first Zionists, up until the Arab Revolt [1936-9\, knew that there had been no exiling, and that the Palestinians were descended from the inhabitants of the land. They knew that farmers don't leave until they are expelled. Even Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, 'the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.'" And how did millions of Jews appear around the Mediterranean Sea? "The people did not spread, but the Jewish religion spread. Judaism was a converting religion. Contrary to popular opinion, in early Judaism there was a great thirst to convert others. The Hasmoneans were the first to begin to produce large numbers of Jews through mass conversion, under the influence of Hellenism. The conversions between the Hasmonean Revolt and Bar Kochba's rebellion are what prepared the ground for the subsequent, wide-spread dissemination of Christianity. After the victory of Christianity in the fourth century, the momentum of conversion was stopped in the Christian world, and there was a steep drop in the number of Jews. Presumably many of the Jews who appeared around the Mediterranean became Christians. But then Judaism started to permeate other regions - pagan regions, for example, such as Yemen and North Africa. Had Judaism not continued to advance at that stage and had it not continued to convert people in the pagan world, we would have remained a completely marginal religion, if we survived at all." How did you come to the conclusion that the Jews of North Africa were originally Berbers who converted? "I asked myself how such large Jewish communities appeared in Spain. And then I saw that Tariq ibn Ziyad, the supreme commander of the Muslims who conquered Spain, was a Berber, and most of his soldiers were Berbers. Dahia al-Kahina's Jewish Berber kingdom had been defeated only 15 years earlier. And the truth is there are a number of Christian sources that say many of the conquerors of Spain were Jewish converts. The deep-rooted source of the large Jewish community in Spain was those Berber soldiers who converted to Judaism." Sand argues that the most crucial demographic addition to the Jewish population of the world came in the wake of the conversion of the kingdom of Khazaria - a huge empire that arose in the Middle Ages on the steppes along the Volga River, which at its height ruled over an area that stretched from the Georgia of today to Kiev. In the eighth century, the kings of the Khazars adopted the Jewish religion and made Hebrew the written language of the kingdom. From the 10th century the kingdom weakened; in the 13th century is was utterly defeated by Mongol invaders, and the fate of its Jewish inhabitants remains unclear. Sand revives the hypothesis, which was already suggested by historians in the 19th and 20th centuries, according to which the Judaized Khazars constituted the main origins of the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. "At the beginning of the 20th century there is a tremendous concentration of Jews in Eastern Europe - three million Jews in Poland alone," he says. "The Zionist historiography claims that their origins are in the earlier Jewish community in Germany, but they do not succeed in explaining how a small number of Jews who came from Mainz and Worms could have founded the Yiddish people of Eastern Europe. The Jews of Eastern Europe are a mixture of Khazars and Slavs who were pushed eastward." 'Degree of perversion' If the Jews of Eastern Europe did not come from Germany, why did they speak Yiddish, which is a Germanic language? "The Jews were a class of people dependent on the German bourgeoisie in the East, and thus they adopted German words. Here I base myself on the research of linguist Paul Wechsler of Tel Aviv University, who has demonstrated that there is no etymological connection between the German Jewish language of the Middle Ages and Yiddish. As far back as 1828, the Ribal (Rabbi Isaac Ber Levinson) said that the ancient language of the Jews was not Yiddish. Even Ben Zion Dinur, the father of Israeli historiography, was not hesitant about describing the Khazars as the origin of the Jews in Eastern Europe, and describes Khazaria as 'the mother of the diasporas' in Eastern Europe. But more or less since 1967, anyone who talks about the Khazars as the ancestors of the Jews of Eastern Europe is considered naive and moonstruck." Why do you think the idea of the Khazar origins is so threatening? "It is clear that the fear is of an undermining of the historic right to the land. The revelation that the Jews are not from Judea would ostensibly knock the legitimacy for our being here out from under us. Since the beginning of the period of decolonization, settlers have no longer been able to say simply: 'We came, we won and now we are here' the way the Americans, the whites in South Africa and the Australians said. There is a very deep fear that doubt will be cast on our right to exist." Is there no justification for this fear? "No. I don't think that the historical myth of the exile and the wanderings is the source of the legitimization for me being here, and therefore I don't mind believing that I am Khazar in my origins. I am not afraid of the undermining of our existence, because I think that the character of the State of Israel undermines it in a much more serious way. What would constitute the basis for our existence here is not mythological historical right, but rather would be for us to start to establish an open society here of all Israeli citizens." In effect you are saying that there is no such thing as a Jewish people. "I don't recognize an international people. I recognize 'the Yiddish people' that existed in Eastern Europe, which though it is not a nation can be seen as a Yiddishist civilization with a modern popular culture. I think that Jewish nationalism grew up in the context of this 'Yiddish people.' I also recognize the existence of an Israeli people, and do not deny its right to sovereignty. But Zionism and also Arab nationalism over the years are not prepared to recognize it. "From the perspective of Zionism, this country does not belong to its citizens, but rather to the Jewish people. I recognize one definition of a nation: a group of people that wants to live in sovereignty over itself. But most of the Jews in the world have no desire to live in the State of Israel, even though nothing is preventing them from doing so. Therefore, they cannot be seen as a nation." What is so dangerous about Jews imagining that they belong to one people? Why is this bad? "In the Israeli discourse about roots there is a degree of perversion. This is an ethnocentric, biological, genetic discourse. But Israel has no existence as a Jewish state: If Israel does not develop and become an open, multicultural society we will have a Kosovo in the Galilee. The consciousness concerning the right to this place must be more flexible and varied, and if I have contributed with my book to the likelihood that I and my children will be able to live with the others here in this country in a more egalitarian situation - I will have done my bit. "We must begin to work hard to transform our place into an Israeli republic where ethnic origin, as well as faith, will not be relevant in the eyes of the law. Anyone who is acquainted with the young elites of the Israeli Arab community can see that they will not agree to live in a country that declares it is not theirs. If I were a Palestinian I would rebel against a state like that, but even as an Israeli I am rebelling against it." The question is whether for those conclusions you had to go as far as the Kingdom of the Khazars. "I am not hiding the fact that it is very distressing for me to live in a society in which the nationalist principles that guide it are dangerous, and that this distress has served as a motive in my work. I am a citizen of this country, but I am also a historian and as a historian it is my duty to write history and examine texts. This is what I have done." If the myth of Zionism is one of the Jewish people that returned to its land from exile, what will be the myth of the country you envision? "To my mind, a myth about the future is better than introverted mythologies of the past. For the Americans, and today for the Europeans as well, what justifies the existence of the nation is a future promise of an open, progressive and prosperous society. The Israeli materials do exist, but it is necessary to add, for example, pan-Israeli holidays. To decrease the number of memorial days a bit and to add days that are dedicated to the future. But also, for example, to add an hour in memory of the Nakba [literally, the "catastrophe" - the Palestinian term for what happened when Israel was established\, between Memorial Day and Independence Day."

Ruble  09/26/2008 05:41 AM Report

Charlie,

Like you said you made Mahmoud say what was in his mind.Looks like Obama is right that if we extent our hands with care and diplomacy peace may work out.I like your Persuasion skills inclining him towards collaboration(In fact a lot of other things also).Great Job.!

Let us hope to see a more peaceful world....

Congratulations on your initiative..

Shalom Freedman  09/23/2008 09:12 AM Report

I have commented on this shameful interview before. Charlie Rose did not ask Ahmadinejad about the following quotation. Ahmadinejad said this in Tehran in 2005, but he has made remarks in similar vein tens of time since.

"Once, his eminency Imam [Ruhollah\ Khomeini stated that the illegal regime of the Pahlavis must go, and it happened. Then he said the Soviet empire would disappear, and it happened. He also said that this evil man Saddam [Hussein\ must be punished, and we see that he is under trial in his country. His eminency also said that the occupation regime of Qods [Jerusalem, or Israel\ must be wiped off from the map of the world, and with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt.”

Ahmadinejad called the destruction of not only Israel as he most frequently does but of the United States.

Charlie Rose did not ask him about this, or about the murder of children by the regime in Tehran, or about the total suppression of dissent.

Charlie Rose gave propaganda time to a genocide- inciter , one who arms those killing Americans in Iraq , one who heads a regime of the torture - chamber.

Mitra- an Iranian  09/15/2008 01:17 AM Report

It clear that there is no such think as absolute freedom of speech in iran and people easily get prosecute for opposing opinions.

Matt  09/13/2008 06:07 AM Report

No Iranian politician besides Ahmadinejad has ever questioned the holocaust. I don't think he raised the question because of belief but he was trying to make a point that while in Europe there is no law against insulting Islam, there is a law against questioning th holocaust. There is no question that Ahmadinejad is a hard working president but he is not the leader of Iran and he cannot start any wars against anybody because he is not commander in chief. So I say relax. The Iranian regime is not a threat to anyone.

Vincent Evangelisti  09/10/2008 02:59 PM Report

A masterful example of really good conversation, informed, spirited, soulful. The sound balance is excellent, allowing us to hear ahmadinejad's expressions, tone, inflections, emotion. Many many thanks for this contribution to the advancement of the situation.

Dean  09/10/2008 09:00 AM Report

Has s US president ever been interviewed by Aljazeerra? What questions would be asked if that were to happen?

Judy Brookhart  09/05/2008 05:28 PM Report

Do you have written transcripts available online? My hearing isn't the greatest and I could not understand the interview w/ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Thank you,

Judy Brookhart

Viva Dr. Ahmadinejad  09/04/2008 07:47 AM Report

This is why Dr. Ahmadinejad is much loved around the world. Although, he is one the most intelligent (If not the most intelligent) leaders in the history of Man-Kind, but he is always down to earth.

Here, Dr. Ahmadinejad invited Orphans to Presidential Palace to open Eftar (Dinner after fasting on the first day of Ramadan). He also invited Evo Morales, the Bolivian president.

Link to Pictures:

“””http://www.farsnews.com/imgrep.php?nn=8706121378”””

“””http://www.isna.ir/ISNA/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-1191488&Lang=P”””

He has gone to all small cities, and counties, and villages, and poorest area in Iran to listen to people’s problem, and since then he has made thousands of Homes, Schools, Universities, Hospitals, Buildings, Hi-ways, Bridges, and …I’m so proud of you Dr. Ahmadinejad.

Mohammad Reza  09/03/2008 07:58 PM Report

Mr. Ahmadinejad certainly sounds sane, but I am afraid it is the case of saying one thing and doing something else. He tends to say what you want to hear and is very good at that.

As an Iranian who visit Iran many times a year, I can tell you the Iranian economy, at least at the level of people's buying power, is doing really rather badly.

farshad fakhari  09/03/2008 02:38 AM Report

I find that amasing and fair interview and I hope that one day every countries in the world could living in peace and respect.

And thank you charlie, to be a vise man and not to be a jornaliste who can not understand and only going and search for head lines bravo

you can be proud of your self Sir.

Farshad Fakhari from Canada/Ottawa

Sam  09/01/2008 11:19 PM Report

Jeez Charlie's producer,

Edit the gaps and lower his voice so we can hear and understand the translation.

pesar irany  08/29/2008 07:35 PM Report

"Had the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab world as a whole shown just one fraction of the responsibility and mutual caring that the people and state of Israel showed for their own there would already long ago have been peace in the Middle East."

that is true, even we in iran call ahmadinejad a talking monkey and all other f'ing stuff, so we are not offended. they are cutting electricity couple of hours everyday in the capital and major cities, economy, worst than ever been, before and after revolution. he is a talking sh*t.

Preston  08/29/2008 01:22 AM Report

And not to mention everybody else. Just face it, fish-thing, your just down right creepy.

the real Preston  08/29/2008 01:19 AM Report

You take yourself way way too seriously, fish-thing.

Preston  08/28/2008 11:56 PM Report

Hahahaha... You can't even spell "wetaudid" right. You uhmooze me, fish-thing.

Preston  08/28/2008 03:42 PM Report

Wiseman, you left out a few other religions, like, self-worshiping atheists and mentally disturbed conspiracy theorists, and all the other extremist fanatics running a muck with their heads up their sh*t-holes, that all the decent people have to tip-toe around.

--- A _*ZIONIST*_ CRITICIZING ANOTHER PERSON'S SUPPOSED "MESSIANIC IDEOLOGY"!!? ... OH THAT'S 'RRRRICH' ...!! ---   08/28/2008 03:18 PM Report

Shalom Freedman: "No mention was made of the Messianic apocalyptic ideology of Ahmadinejad."

Wiseman  08/28/2008 03:02 PM Report

Ahmadinejad has managed to keep Iran isolated and in a very poor economic condition. yet, in his mind he thinks he is right. Same goes with Bush. That is the problem with all religous people. It does not matter which religion, Jewish, Christian or Muslim. They all consider themselves as the rightous people and anybody who does not agree with them is labled as anti-god or unpatriotic.

Shalom Freedman  08/28/2008 02:31 PM Report

No mention was made in this interview of the Iranian suppression of the Baluchis within Iran itself.

No mention was made of the repression within Iran of all dissent.

No mention was made of the gas shortages, and the blackouts.

No mention was made of the twenty- year Iranian deceit in regard to its nuclear program.

No mention was made of the Messianic apocalyptic ideology of Ahmadinejad.

No mention was made of Ahmadinejad's threats to impede the world's energy- supply by blocking the Straits of Hormuz.

No mention was made of the military threats made by Ahmadinejad against the United States military forces in the Middle East.

No mention was made of the Iranian role in supplying both Shiites and Sunnites with weapons in Iraq.

Next time Charlie Rose is vacationing in France and he receives an urgent call from Tehran to come and do the President's bidding I suggest he continue enjoying his rest.

And all of this while more and more of the centrifuges keep spinning.

Ariobarzaan  08/28/2008 11:18 AM Report

To the Iranian-American Jewish, Mr. Yahya,

Please, do not compare an uneducated Alcoholic Drug-addict, George Bush who set the world ablaze with an educated peace-loving man Dr. Ahmadinejad. I have read a lot of history, and except the profits, I have not seen a leader who sacrifice himself everyday for his nation, and other nations in the world. When, Dr. Ahmadinejad, the son of a blacksmith was accepted at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), he ranked 132nd out of 400,000 participants in Iran's national university entrance exams. Unlike Bush, who scaped from the Millitary, Dr. Ahmadinejad fought with Saddam for 8 years on the front line. When he became the Governor of Ardabil, he builds thousands of houses for poor people. At the present, with all the pressures from the western countries, he has gone to all provinces in Iran (small villages, small towns, big towns, poorest areas in country, and he goes to their house talking to them, and solving their problems). I have not seen any leader in the history of man-kind who sacrifices himself for his nation like him. I’m proud to have him as our president. Look at other former presidents of Iran. Hashemi- Rafsanjani and Khatami the so called clerics who supposed to be man of god stole billions of dollars from the Iran’s National Treasury. Hashemi-Rafsanjani owns several shopping malls, Buildings, other properties in Canada, and southern California. Bill Gates is a poor man compare to this Zionist agent, Hashemi-Rafsanjani! Since, Dr. Ahmadinejad came to power he had helped building thousands of Buildings, houses, Sports facilities (Specially for Women), Hi-ways, Roads, Refinery plants, Petro-Chemical plants, and ….I’m proud to have him as our president, and I am proud to be called an Iranian.

---ANTI-SEMETIC ZIONIST KING TRUTH-TELLER  08/28/2008 08:16 AM Report

So when can I buy your book?, and have you sign it for me.

--- Paralells between National Sozialismus (NAZIsm) and National Zionism ---   08/28/2008 05:50 AM Report

Both were/are RACIST IDEOLOGIES based on the EXCLUSIVIST MYTHOLOGICAL REVIVAL of supposedly, respectively, an "ANCIENT GLORRRIOUS KINGDOM", based on "PURITY OF BLOOD", in an EXCLUSIVIST NATION STATE, created by a CONSOLIDATION and DOMINATION of "THE *CHOSEN* / *SUPERIOR* RACE" (ÜBERMENSCHEN), and the ETHNIC CLEANSING of any unwanted race/s (untermenschen), and the take-over of foreign land for LABENSRAUM (living space), creating an abject HUMAN RIGHTS CATASTROPHE (hence, "al-Nakba" / "The Catastrophe", as the Palestinians call it) in its wake: ... some ancient glorrrious Teutonic kingdom for the NATIONAL SOZIALISTISCHE (Nazis), and some ancient glorrrious Jewish kingdom for the NATIONAL ZIONISTS.

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The ideological, racial and historical parallels are unpleasant, disturbing, tragic, and _IRONIC_, but true.

--- WHAT *CHUTZPAH* ! : *ZIONIST* *RACISTS* COMPLAINING ABOUT "ANTI-SEMITISM" ! ---   08/28/2008 03:46 AM Report

RE: Comment by Concerned on Wednesday, Aug 27 at 11:53 PM: "This is really funny how people are anti-Semite here in this time and age."

matt  08/28/2008 02:40 AM Report

I think it's pretty hilarious that Obama thinks he can talk Ahmadinejad down. It really shows some ignorance of there culture. I just read a really good article,<a href="http://jaajoe.com/War-on-Terror/Should-The-President-of-the-United-States-Talk-to-Ahmadinejad.h tml">Should The President of the United States Talk to Ahmadinejad?</a> , that does a pretty good job explaining why this probably wouldn't have great results.

Zarrafeh  08/28/2008 12:43 AM Report

Excellent interview, Mr Rose. Once, you avoid Mr Ahmadinejaad favorite subjects, once you don't let him to go through his stupid, empty slogans, one can see the real man: his contradictory speech, his paranoid mind! his populist approach, without any substance! It's a pity Rose didn't begin with Iranian internal affairs: about 29% inflation in Iran, about lame economic situation of Iran while oil is around 120$! with all this, it's killing me to see him giving advices to future American president on how to manage internal problems of American people! Why Rose never asks about Iranian people problems? Lack of freedom? Unbelievable corruption inside the government? Inefficient economic structures maintained by this regime? This is where they can't answer! And we saw that fast he evades the questions, postponing the answers! On international politics, US has done so many errors, it's too easy for Ahmadinejaad and his alikes to answer! They just repeat American errors over and over!

yahya  08/28/2008 12:41 AM Report

I AM A SAD IRANIAN AMERICAN BECAUSE THESE LOSER IDIOTS (GEORGE AND MAHMOUD)

Oleg  08/28/2008 12:37 AM Report

for Mr. Sholom Freedman!

please read this website there is an article by prof (shlomo sand ) from university of tel aviv

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html

then look at your none scientific claim

Concerned  08/27/2008 11:53 PM Report

This is really funny how people are anti-Semite here in this time and age. Heretz Yisra'el (Israel) has only been in the hands of the rightful owners -Jews only for the last 60 years within 2000 years. The Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 (according to the Christian calendar). If you calculate it mathematically its like just about 3%, since Israel has been in the hands of the owner. All the 97% of the time Israel and Jewish population that survived the massacre in the destruction has been in the hands of the conquerors. I don't understand what the heck is all about calling Jews as Zionist and all the negative names that make every Jew like they owe the world something. I mean what is all the fuss about Israel and the Jewish population??? Stop calling the Jewish people "Zionists," because getting something that belongs to you and only having it for less than 3% does not qualify one to name calling.

Ariobarzaan  08/27/2008 05:22 PM Report

Dear Sam,

What do you expect him to ask Ahmadinejad? I think you should thank Charlie to even holds his head up. One million Iraqi are dead for no particular reason. Thousands of US soldiers are wounded for no particular reason. Two million people got killed during Iran-Iraq war so that U.S and Israel could make billions of dollars profits for selling their old military equipment to Sadam and the Iranians, and also buying cheap oil from them.

One million Iraqi children were starved to death a decade ago, because they were sanctioned by U.S pressure. Millions of people in Palestine are staving to death at the present, because the Israelis blocking any help to them, and many other things. If, I was Charlie, I could not even hold my head up while I was interviewing Ahmadinejad.

sam  08/27/2008 03:59 PM Report

terrible interview. big fan of charlie but his strength is in conversation and allowing people to speak without having his own agenda. in this interview he tried to be confrontational and investigative and instead came across defensive and childish (not unlike the columbia university president). it would have been a real opportunity to get to hear ahmadinejad speak and question his points spontaneously as they came up (including questioning his tendency to lecture ad nauseam) instead of treating him like a pariah from the outset and getting frustrated when he did not play along with charlie's game. it should have been less a political interview and more personal, trying to get inside how this man thinks. this is actually what charlie is somewhat good at.

--- Ariobarzaan: "What kind of freedom do we have in US? We are free to believe, whatever Zionists want us to believe." ---   08/27/2008 01:40 PM Report

Ariobarzaan on Wednesday, Aug 27 at 07:07 AM: "In 2006, Mike Wallace had a 76 minutes interview with Ahmadinejad. Out of that he cut & pate ten minutes of the interview, and he shows it in “60 Minutes” program."

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Comment by --- The Zionist ideology is *by definition* RACIST --- yet Zionist Jews have the *chutzpah* to complain about anti-Semitism! --- on Saturday, Aug 23 at 06:31 AM

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RE: Comment by George [ZIONIST JEW\ on Saturday, Aug 23 at 04:13 AM: "Did Charlie Rose address any of this [RE-SPOUT ZIONIST PROPAGANDA\? No." -- [WELL, NOT ENTIRELY.\

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Not *everyone* *everytime* -- as much as Zionists and Israel would like everyone to -- needs to re-spout twisted -- and yes, *RACIST* -- ZIONIST PROPAGANDA (and to do things like *switch* and purposely mistranslate everyplace Ahmadinejad or Hamas or Hezbollah says *Zionist* with the word *Jew*, to falsely make those criticizing/opposing racist Zionist ideology sound anti-Semitic. --- ZIONISTS HAVE LEARNED SO WELL FROM *GOEBBELS*: ...REPEAT A LIE OFTEN ENOUGH AND IT BECOMES THE TRUTH (at least in the Western corporate mainstream media).

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BUT WHAT _*SHEEER CHUTZPAH*_ FOR ZIONISTS (JEWISH-SUPREMACISTS) TO COMPLAIN ABOUT "ANTI-SEMITISM" -- FROM THE PEOPLE JEWS OPPRESS -- IN THE FIRST PLACE!: ...IT'D BE LIKE THE *KKK* (WHITE CHRISTIAN SUPREMACISTS) COMPLAINING ABOUT "ANTI-WHITE RACISM" -- FROM THE PEOPLE WHITES OPPRESSED (WHICH *APARTHEID* WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS ACTUALLY USED TO DO)!!

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AHMADINEJAD MADE THE *PERFECT* COMPARISON OF THE ZIONIST *IDEOLOGICALLY* "JEWISH" STATE (where at least 20% of the people inside Israel itself are *NOT* Jewish, and about *50%* in historic Palestine are still *NOT* Jewish, even after Israel has done all it could to import Jews, and even questionable Jews, from around the world!) AND ITS RACIALLY PARALLEL HISTORY WITH *APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA*.

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OH, AND *GET THIS*, BY GEORGE (no pun intended): "He is seeking genocide, the destruction of a sovereign nation..." --- THIS COMING FROM A PEOPLE (ZIONIST JEWS) WHO CAME ALL THE WAY FROM *NORTHERN EUROPE* TO WIPE PALESTINE OFF THE MAP --- AND TO DO EVERYTHING TO DESTROY PALESTINIAN SOCIETY!! ...THE SHEEER DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRITICALLY RACIST JEWISH *CHUTZPAH* KNOWS ABSOLUTELY *NO SHAME*!!

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NO PALESTINIAN, PLO, HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, OR IRANIAN, ANTI-COLONIALIST & ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEADER HAS *EVER* SAID THAT THEY WANT TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS (more Zionist Jewish false claims/translation) _______ AT LEAST 25,000 JEWS *STAYED IN IRAN* TO THIS VERY DAY, AND SOME OTHER JEWS STILL REMAIN IN SEVERAL ARAB COUNTRIES (in spite of Israel's Mossad, *impersonating Arabs*, before trying to scare Jews out with bombs and anti-Semitic graffiti): _______ ANTI-COLONIALIST & ANTI-IMPERIALIST ARABS AND PERSIANS WANT TO ABOLISH THE ISRAELI RACIST STATE IDEOLOGY OF *ZIONISM* --- THEY WANT TO *POLITICALLY* _DECOLONIZE_ ISRAEL AND ABOLISH *ISRAELI* APARTHEID --- JUST AS THE RACIST IDEOLOGY OF POLITICAL APARTHEID WAS ABOLISHED IN SOUTH AFRICA.

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ARAFAT, THE PLO (even though the Fateh faction has been morally corrupted by the U.S. & Israel) AND HAMAS HAVE *ALWAYS* CALLED FOR A *SECULAR* (not the semi-theocratic state Israel has), DEMOCRATIC STATE WITH EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL REGARDLESS OF RACE/ETHNICITY AND RELIGION --- BUT ZIONIST JEWS *REFUSED* TO HAVE THAT, BECAUSE THEN ZIONIST JEWS CAN'T HAVE AN IDEOLOGICALLY *JEWISH-SUPREMACIST* *RACIST* STATE IN PALESTINE!

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WASN'T IT *FUNNY* AS HELL TO SEE CHARLIE ALMOST CHOKE ON HIS INABILITY TO SAY THAT THE U.S. HAS *EVER* MADE ANY FOREIGN POLICY MISTAKES. ________ OH, CHARLIE ADMITTED THAT "*IRAN* HAS", AND BRITAIN HAS, AND FRANCE HAS, AND WESTERN EUROPE HAS, ... BUT CHARLIE *COULDN'T* BRING HIMSELF TO SAY THAT THE *U.S.* HAS!: ... SO, I GUESS THE U.S. IS LIKE THE *POPE*!: "*INFALLIBLE*".

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Finally (well, semifinally), *everyone* without an estabishment and imperialist American view should speak in a foreign language and come on The Charlie Rose Show with an interpreter!! _______ THIS IS THE *ONLY* TIME I'VE EVER SEEN ANYONE CRITICAL OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY --- AND U.S. GROSS *HYPOCRISY* --- COME ON THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW AND *NOT* BE CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED (before even being able to finish the *first* sentence of their response) BY CHARLIE. _______ The interpreter slows Charlie down -- well, actually Charlie is forced to *STOP* at the end of his question so it can be translated -- and then Charlie is forced to wait for the response translation -- WHICH KEEPS CHARLIE FROM BEING ABLE TO CONSTANTLY INTERRUPT -- WITH CHARLIE'S PURPOSELY NAIVE CEASELESS OLD "NOBLE CAUSE" VIEW (MYTHS) OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- while such a guest/critic is answering the question.

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The only time Charlie interrupted Ahmadinejad (or maybe it was an unfair/abrupt video edit) was when Ahmadinejad started to explain that THE HOLOCAUST WAS PERPETRATED BY AND HAPPENED IN *EUROPE*!: SO WHY SHOULD THE PALESTINIANS BE FORCED TO GIVE UP LAND AND PAY FOR THE *EUROPEAN* HOLOCAUST? --- and Charlie abruptly cut Ahmadinejad off. Such interruptions at critical sentences/arguments are a way to CENSOR the interviewee's arguments. Zionist Jewish interviewers/guests (like MARTIN INDYK or DENNIS ROSS) constantly use this INTERRUPTION TACTIC: ____ You could see some of that in the old "60 Minutes" Mike Wallace interview snippet --- of course what Wallace, Bob Simon, or "60 MINUTES" DIDN'T EVER REVEAL, when Wallace reported on Palestine, or interviewed Arafat or other Middleasterners, is that MIKE WALLACE --- LIKE BOB SIMON --- IS A ZIONIST JEW, THOUGH HE ALWAYS *PRETENDED* TO BE AN "IMPARTIAL / OBJECTIVE" INTERVIEWER on Israel-Palestine, and Zionists or Palestinians: ______ SO THEY SHOW YOU WHAT THEY SELECTIVELY *WANT* TO SHOW YOU (IN THEIR VIDEO CLIPS) AND KEEP PEOPLE FROM SAYING WHAT WALLACE / SIMON *DON'T* WANT YOU TO HEAR.

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ONE THING THAT AHMADINEJAD DIDN'T CLEARLY EXPLAIN, WAS THAT AFTER IRAN *HELPED* THE U.S. GO AFTER THE TALIBAN, AFTER 9-11, BUSH, RICE & Co. THEN TURNED AROUND AND PUT IRAN ON THE "AXIS OF EVIL" LIST (and called for "regime change" in Iran; the U.S. actually *overthrew* a democratic Iranian govt in 1953, like the U.S. has done with numerous other so-called "3rd World" democratic govts in history)! --- AND THIS WAS BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY!!: TO ACCEPT ANY *HELP* FROM IRAN, BUT THEN LATER KICK IRAN IN THE BUTT! _____ IS THIS SNIDELY, CYNICAL, AND ARROGANT OR WHAT!!? ____ THAT'S WHAT ANYONE DESERVES WHO COLLABORATES WITH THE IMPERIALIST U.S. GOVT: TO BE USED LIKE A CHEAP HO AND THEN KICKED IN THE ASS! (The Bush administration believing that it can act and behave however it wants to, and think that nobody can do anything about it! Which is why even *the people* in Western --our *Allies*-- countries have such little political regard for the U.S.)

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THIS INTERVIEW WAS ONE OF CHARLIE'S *BEST* -- FOR THE REASONS MENTIONED ABOVE --- AND VERY INFORMATIVE --- EVEN THOUGH HE TRIED TO BRING IN CRITICISMS OF AHMADINEJAD AND IRAN THAT COULD EASILY APPLY TO BUSH AND THE U.S. --- AND BECAUSE AHMADINEJAD (who, unlike Bush, can at least speak his own language well) IS A RATHER ARTICULATE SPEAKER (when he's being accurately translated -- or not later *purposely* and *falsely* mistranslated by Zionist Jews). ________ But, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY POLITICALLY PRODUCED -- i.e., DIRECTLY LED TO -- AND KEEPS THE THEOCRATIC REGIME IN IRAN IN POWER, AND *UNDERCUTS* IRAN'S OWN DOMESTIC IRANIAN SOCIOPOLITICAL DISSIDENTS -- just as U.S. foreign policy keeps THE SEMI-THEOCRATIC REGIME IN *ISRAEL* in power for the past 60 years --- NEITHER GOVTS ARE SECULAR TRULY DEMOCRATIC STATES.

--- Ariobarzaan: "What kind of freedom do we have in US? We are free to believe, whatever Zionists want us to believe." ---  08/27/2008 12:51 PM Report

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Comment by --- I.E., THIS TIME WE ZIONIST / ISRAEL-FIRST JEWS DIDN'T GET OUR WAY LIKE WE'RE *ALWAYS* USED TO IN THE AMERICAN MEDIA !! --- on Monday, Aug 25 at 03:59 PM

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Comment by Shalom Freedman on Monday, Aug 25 at 02:35 PM: "I do not believe any constructive purpose was served by the interview.[AND WE ZIONIST JEWS DIDN'T GET TO, THEN OR LATER, PURPOSELY FALSELY MISTRANSLATE WHAT AHMADINEJAD SAID IN THE INTERVIEW! ...CHARLIE DIDN'T EVEN FIRST VERBALLY TRASH HIM, LIKE WE MADE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT LEE BOLLLINGER DO. ...CHARLIE HAS DONE US ZIONIST JEWS A GREAT DISSERVICE!!\"

Ariobarzaan  08/27/2008 07:07 AM Report

If you have noticed, the American reporters (like Brian Williams) always start with “In a rare Interview, with President Mahmood Ahmadinejad….”

Or Mr. Rose was saying, this time, he gave us one hour of his time, something that it never happens before. How can Mr. Rose say that, when he had one hour Interview with Ahmadinejad last year, and it is in his Archive?

Or Mr. Williams had three Interviews with Ahmadinejad, and yet he’s saying in a rare Interview.

Ahmadinehad had at least 50 different Interviews and News Conferences with Western reporters. How many Interviews Mr. Bush, or Mr. Sarkoozy, or Mr. Blair had with foreign reporters?

In 2006, Mike Wallace had a 76 minutes interview with Ahmadinejad. Out of that he cut & pate ten minutes of the interview, and he shows it in “60 Minutes” program.

A day later C-Span was supposedly to air the full interview. They only show one hour of the interview. They cut 16 minutes of the Interview. And also on purpose, they did not archive it. I know it was 76 minutes, because, I watch it in Iranian TV.

What kind of freedom do we have in US? We are free to believe, whatever Zionists want us to believe. That is the kind of freedom we have here.

Arash  08/27/2008 05:43 AM Report

Mr Rose, i would like to thank you very much for your fair and peaceful mind. You did a great job and as an persian I admire you and always allocate my time to follows your programs. you correctly recognize that Iran is a great and important nation and just a few nations in the world can really bring somthing to humen and world and rest of nations just follow or care just about economy and etc. but in general I wish US has more people like you.

God bless you and wishing all the best for you.

lithdoc  08/26/2008 11:22 PM Report

I do not understand the computer guys at charlie rose... First of all, when you dub, make sure we can hear it. Best of all - dont dub at all, putting subtitles would be enough. Second, amplify the sound. On a laptop, one can barely hear it.

Preston  08/26/2008 08:53 PM Report

Pesar, you are a class guy, you are one of the few comments here that actually gets it.

Preston  08/26/2008 08:52 PM Report

Pesar, you are a class guy, you are one of the few comments here that actually gets it.

--- Because they *CAN'T* !! --- At least not without any arguments that can't expose them here for the _"History's Greatest *HYPÖCRITES-ARE-ÜS*"_ that they are! ---   08/26/2008 04:03 PM Report

RE Comment by optimistic on Tuesday, Aug 26 at 02:39 PM: "This page is full of comments by Israelies!! Why they (Zionist Jews) are so angry? If they feel they are right, simply defend their position"

Preston  08/26/2008 03:48 PM Report

I could go into detail here, but why bother. So I will summarize, Charlie Rose looked like a curious scientist trying to get information and communicate with a talking monkey who just returned from Mars. The future?... Could be.

optimistic  08/26/2008 02:39 PM Report

This page is full of comments by Israelies !! Why they are so angry? If they feel they are right , simply defend their position, why they begin by insult and then harsh threats, which every little children understand it is more from a weak position rather than a powerfull one.

I wonder why many people even in New York are joking about the behavior of Israelies, I can find the response in this kind of angry responses to every little thing.

I you can hit Iran , do it , if not shot up and change the way of speaking. Isreal should speak according to it's size.

--- Who is the U.S. to talk?: WHAT HYPOCRITES!! ---   08/26/2008 05:08 AM Report

The U.S. keeps building and testing ever-larger nuclear weapons -- and smaller nuclear weapons that make it more likely and "palatable" for the U.S. to decide to use them as radioactive *terror* weapons. Furthermore, the *U.S.* govt has threatened to use nuclear weapons in almost every major war its been involved in (and even a nuclear 'pre-emptive nuclear strike' against Iran) -- AGAINST NON-NUCLEAR COUNTRIES -- since WWII when the U.S. bombed TWO large civilians cities *OF NO MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE* just to see what such weapons would actually do against civilian population centers, and just to try to scare the Soviets who thus accelerated and successfully built their own nuclear bomb only 4 years later. Besides, it's the *U.S.* govt that has either once lost one or two nuclear weapons, or misplaced them, or accidentally dropped an unarmed one over the U.S., or sometimes didn't know where a few of them were, or accidentally shipped nuclear triggers to the wrong country, from time to time: what kind of security is that? SO, WHO REALLY IS THE IRRESPONSIBLE NUCLEAR POWER IN THE WORLD?

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AND IT IS OBVIOUSLY *ISRAEL*, WITH U.S. COMPLICITY, THAT WAS THE **FIRST** COUNTRY TO INTRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS (NOW AT LEAST SOME 200 NUKES) INTO THE MIDDLE EAST. What?: did the U.S. think that ALL the other Mideast countries were necessarily ALL just going to sit back and accept a hostile beligerant Zionist Israel that had actually pretextually *STARTED* ALL of its military invasion wars from Israel's beginning, except for one war (the 1973 war where Egypt tried to recover part of its land, the Sinai, taken by Israel in 1967)!

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*IF* Iran did decide to develop nuclear weapons -- AND I OPENLY *SUPPORT* IRAN DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS to stop the U.S. (THE U.S., WHICH *OVERTHREW* A DEMOCRATIC GOVT IN IRAN in 1953 AND INSTALLED A BRUTAL DICTATOR, the Shah) from now continually militarily threatening to bomb Iran -- AND ITS *PEOPLE* -- just like North Korea -- WHICH I ALSO OPENLY *SUPPORTED* NORTH KOREA DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- which finally stopped the U.S. from continually threatening North Korea -- AND THUS NORTH KOREA FORCED THE U.S. TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE.

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NEITHER THE U.S. -- AND EVEN LESS, ISRAEL -- WOULD BE ABLE TO STRIKE ALL OF IRAN'S HIGHLY DISTRIBUTED AND DEEP NUCLEAR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES. This was finally acknowledged --- that NEITHER THE U.S. NOR ISRAEL CAN REALLY DO A DAMN THING MILITARILY --- when the U.S. finally sent one of its diplomats to explore a negotiating process in Iran, after Bush and Rice swore up and down (as before with North Korea) that this would *never* happen! _______ YOU SEE THE POWER OF ANOTHER COUNTRY'S NUKES OR ITS SERIOUS NUCLEAR PROGRAM?: YOU STOP THE U.S. FROM MILITARILY PICKING ON AND THREATENING YOU.

Preston is obviously a mentally disturbed person.  08/26/2008 04:19 AM Report

RE Comment by TO Charlie Rose website comment monitors: See Comment by Preston on Monday, Aug 25 at 09:14 PM. on Tuesday, Aug 26 at 04:06 AM. Preston should be sent off by the Charlie Rose website comment monitors to get his jollies somewhere else. Surely there are other websites somewhere else that enjoy hosting purposely shocking and sociopathic comments by such mentally disturbed people.

TO Charlie Rose website comment monitors: See Comment by Preston on Monday, Aug 25 at 09:14 PM.  08/26/2008 04:14 AM Report

Comment poster Preston's blatantly racist epithets/characterizations and excessive profanity should not be tolerated by the Charlie Rose website. It should disqualify Preston from being allowed to post at this website. He is merely trying to be the highly inflammatory trolling "shock jock" or "flame artist" and, in the instance reported above, the highly offensive garbage mouth of this website's comment pages, and contributes little-to-no intelligent comments. I will click on Report Abuse to alert you to this notification and just one of his abusive post.

Christopher  08/26/2008 03:06 AM Report

I am torn by this interview. On one hand his stance on Israel and the Halocaust is horrible. And for that reason, if Israel hits them (ie take out the nuclear installations), it will be difficult for me to protest. But his arguments that the US supplied WMD's to Iraq and Iraq used them against Iran with western support (at approx 33 min in the interview) really hit me as being coherent... But I still think that Iran is small potatoes, let the Israelis handle it, the IDF is the biggest recepient of US money, let them deal with it. I just do not see Iran as a clear and present danger to Western democracies. And I don't think Iran will be able to overtake Iraq after 150000 American tropps have tried and failed for 5 years.

Dr. Murray M. Morgan  08/26/2008 02:49 AM Report

To Mr. "Concerned,___________________

IAEA has verified that Iran is NOT, as you sneakly want to suconsciously convey to readers, enriching Yellow Cake containing Uranium among other things)to weapon grade purity (above 95$ purity). ----------------------In fact, IAEA has verified and reported that Iran enriches Yellow Cake, just, to 3%-5% puritythat is needed for fuel for reactors.

So, YOU, dishonest propagandist disguised in "Concerned" title, are trying to fan a war between US and Iraq for the Aparthide, racist Israel cruel government. Shame on you Mr. "Concerned"

Concerned  08/26/2008 12:16 AM Report

One more thing, can someone recommend to Mr Amajinajad that he can open his beady and squinty eyes just a little more. Every time I see this guy interview I feel sleepy because he looks like he is falling asleep. Another suggestion would be, he can do eye surgery to open them up.

Concerned  08/26/2008 12:12 AM Report

This guy is very clever, Pres Amadinajad. It's funny to hear him speaking again, every time Mr. Rose asks WHY, he would answer with another question form -why not-. In the past he made statements that were very unsettling and he never defended those statements, somehow he manages to get thru the so-called *best American* journalists, including Mr. wallace of 60 minutes and our very onwn Mr. Rose. In previous appearance Pres Amadinejad was able to getaway without answering/explaining why he said Israel must be wiped off the map, this time he somehow tricked Mr. Rose to saying Israel has nuclear weapon, the fact is there has never been any proof that Israel possesses nuclear weapon. I think, a smart journalist would not confirm or suggest something they are not certain of, and I feel Mr. Rose may have put himself in a corner and forced to insinuate that Israel possesses a nuclear weapon. Pres Amadinajad also stated that Iran would like to trade with the US but he makes it look as if the US does not want to trade with Iran. If, Iran is seeking a peaceful existence, then their president would have to stop suggeting he will wipe of Israel off of the map, and instead of shootiung his mouth he should abide by the IAEA rules and regulations. Iran has to reveal what they have and why they are purifying the yellow cake to weapon grade? Instead of playing game with this serious internationally respected institute, they should let it do its job. the other problem I noticed with this guy is that he is obsessed with Iran's past glory as if the world should kneel before him for his past glory. I have anadvice to Pres Amadinajad, the world is not on a stand still for Iran to get to catch and pass the world in terms technological advancement, the river of time continues to fly even as he reads this very commentary, and its not going to wait for Iran or any other country for that matter to catch up. If Iran wants to exist in peace, then they must abide by the rules and regulations outlined by IAEA or risk getting sent back to stone age.