Ahmadinejad ad-libs

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:08 AM Share

It looks like the speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that prompted a walkout at the U.N. anti-racism conference was actually the watered-down version:

An official Iranian text of Ahmadinejad's address to the conference on Monday referred to "the ambiguous and dubious question of the Holocaust". However, when the president delivered the speech he omitted the phrase, referring more vaguely to "abuse of the Holocaust". He also dropped a segment about Zionist "penetration" of western society.

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