Ahmadinejad's World

New Yorkers aren’t mad at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Trust him, he knows New York. “The people of New York are friendly people” he said during a press conference at the Warwick Hotel today when asked if he owed the city an apology for insinuating that the World Trade Center attack had been carried out by the American government.

But was the Iranian President trying to provoke Americans with his statement ? And for what purpose?
Not at all says Ahmadinejad, he was actually trying to help the American people, so their children aren’t sent off to die in a foreign country and their tax dollars aren’t spent on killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And while he expected the comment to upset American officials, Ahmadinejad also believes the majority of Americans, almost 80% according to his polls, already suspect the deadliest attack on American soil was in some way or form carried out by their own government. And what polls would those be you may ask? Well, most of them, if not all of them, says the Iranian leader.

 What effect  does he think his 9/11 comments  will have on American policy towards Iran? ” I think it helps them too. I’ve opened the gates, the path for them to leave respectfully Iraq and Afghanistan. Is that a bad offer?I think its a great offer. Its a humanitarian gesture, to help the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, its to help American troops and NATO troops who are being killed there. Its helping the US taxpayers who spend their taxes on killing people . This is assistance. This is what I call assistance “

Ahmadinejad ended the press conference by addressing one of his trademark causes: freedom of expression.
“At the end of the day can we have freedom of speech and believe that it exists in the United States? Can we believe in it? I hope we can?I ask those who are in charge to stop pressuring reporters and the media so much, stop imposing on them” said Ahmadinejad “then it will be very interesting what kind of lively debates will come out.”