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Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism

by Jeremy R. Hammond

April 21, 2009

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Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at JeremyRHammond.com. He is the author of "Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis" and "The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination: The Struggle for Palestine and the Roots of the Israeli-Arab Conflict", both available in paperback or Kindle versions from Amazon.com. More...

76 Responses to Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism

  1. Thinker

    April 27, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    There is a lot of factual content and truth in this speech worth contemplating upon. He has highlighted key errors and double standards of the west. Being a westerner doesn’t mean we can’t criticise our ways. It is important that we do to learn from our mistakes and move forward otherwise we will be in the same depressing situation.
    Racism (or whatever word you like to use) is a huge ugly monster in this world and to speak up against it is a good thing! If you remain silent you are as worse as the people who commit it as your silence encourages the behaviour. A world leader spoke up against it we should be taking our hat off to him.

    James clark, you made a valid point and a true one. God bless you.

  2. james clark

    April 27, 2009 at 8:11 pm

    God bless you to thinker :D

  3. Noor

    April 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    Comment by Yitzhak…
    I am disgusted by your comments and feel that you have proved the point that ‘jews’ think they are ‘better’ race than everyone since the day dawned.How pathetic and illiterate of you not to believe that Allah created this world of many races and people to see how we all live together and be answerable for our actions.To use foul language to prove your point further tells me the heat is getting to you!! slandering prohpets is against your relgion too and if you were knowledgable as you claim to be, you would know that our blessed Prophet Mohammmed pbuh. was Allahs chosen as was Prophet Abraham,Prophet Moses, Prophet Isa (Jesus) etc.I guess by YOUR thinking these Prophets had degrees or similar ? As for calling arabs animals your really are showing YOUR narrow minded vision,thinking and knowledge ..shame that your lack of respect in calling the Prime Minister of Iran what you did really did your argument no favours.I guess that is your mentality and as you say that you are ready for anything well we will leave that to Allah to deal with people like you in his own way. Biblical history has punished many races and Jews were one of them ..no land for the Jews??? Any race that terrorises innocent people and makes them homeless will feel the punishment sometime somewhere whether they are jews,christians or muslims. Next time you want to argue refrain from being disrespectful to Gods messengers but talk about people and races because that is where the problem lies …!!!

  4. Chris

    April 29, 2009 at 4:45 am

    I have to say I was impressed with the speech – from the media reports I thought it would be racist… and it wasn’t.

    Seems to me a lot of the comments against the speech here have missed an important point. Really he is criticising the ruling global elite, this isn’t an attack on the west, the USA or Israel. He’s attacking the money men and their puppet governments. Don’t read this as an attack on you, instead look again at the frailties, fallacies and failings our western systems, look at how these systems just serve the interests of a tiny elite. They do this by exploiting you, me and especially those who don’t live in the west… and they do it only for their own ends. They don’t care about America or Britain, they don’t care about you, they care only about themselves and they count on us falling for their lies (via the media / patriotism / religious hatred) and sometimes we even end up defending them when they are accused of wrong doing – please don’t defend this group, they wouldn’t defend you. We should all be as angry as ahmadinejad appears to be, we’re the ones getting conned. I don’t like Iran’s record on human rights and more than you do, but purely in terms of what he has said here; he nailed it.

  5. Thinker

    April 29, 2009 at 8:40 am

    Chris, you have a good objective head which is what we need. God bless you.

  6. andrew ward

    April 29, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    truth will always prevail

  7. Chris

    April 30, 2009 at 4:05 am

    Thank you Thinker

  8. JoeJix86

    April 30, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Nice opinion chris. I am agree with you. Ahmadinejad was disagree by the political elites who exploiting people just for their interest.
    And for Yitzhak, I am disagree. you must understand that Jews is like an ordinary people. Sometimes they can do something right sometimes they don’t. And remember who will be destroyed, the Iran or could it be you?

  9. Translation issue

    May 1, 2009 at 5:55 pm

    “The victorious powers called themselves the conquerors of the world while ignoring or downtreading the rights of other nations by the imposition of oppressive laws and international arrangements.”

    I thought he said, “The victorious powers called themselves the LIBERATORS of the world while . . . .”

  10. denise husbands

    May 4, 2009 at 5:08 pm

    His message is true and to the point. We cannot continue to favor one nation against another. We are all God’s people and God made all the resources for us to equally enjoy. God said that when the poor and oppressed cry out to Him, He himself will avenge them if no one is fighting for them. Here is a world leader that is willing to speak the truth without fear of reprisal. A true Jew is not based on a geographical region, but on the condition of the heart. If we love the Lord or God with all our heart and our neighbor as our self then we are Jews. There was a time in the USA when sign read No Jews, no dogs, no blacks. Brave men and women confronted that type of hatred. What concerns me is that here in the USA there are people who once were discriminated against, who now practice racism, yet they decry this leader and brand him anti-Israel. Racism is hatred wherever you are. We must heed signs of the time. We are coming to the end of an age. Soon God is going to cast in his sickle and gather his harvest. Only those who love the brotherhood will enter into his kingdom.

  11. Gina

    May 5, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    In the book of Revelation 2 times it States in Chapter 2 & 3 “those that call themselves Jews but, are not, are but a Synogogue of Satan.” Today 80% of the 13 million Jews are western Jews called Ashkenazi….. they originated from Russia between the Black & Caspain Seas…. they converted to Judism in 800ad. their biblical lineage is from the tribe of Gomer, from Flood times Japheth’s Clan…they were Pagans that faced Christains from their west & Muslims to there south….so to overcome from being ruled by either, they took up Judism & the Talmud Babylonia. Which is at the heart of Civilizations Racism for all are Goyim (dogs) other then Jews. This Talmud is the same one from the days of the Pharisses which Jesus was sent to correct before all the world fell into Satanical demise before the “The time” of the end to perserve human live & save those that Jehovah made in his image. FACT
    Today these western Jews (ROSH) are the grandchildren of the Rothschild, need I say More ?????? The whole world for the last 3 centuries have been under their spell of deception from their pact to control money, then political persuasion to demise their enemy Jesus Christ & all who believe in his LOVE. So comes from these false Jews – Karl Marx, the Pure nature of Getting God out & rules of Men in. No one needs to behold the fact that Sodom & Gemorrah is the new moral code “Do your own thing” is promoted by Media, Policy, & those that operate them……….The House of Rothschild.
    The whole world lives a lie about of what is a Jew….. Shepardic Jews, most have been Converted during the Inqustion & live in South America, they are short, dark haired peoples of which I am. NOT tall, red haired with hook noses like the majority of Jews today……. Yea, tell Israeli Jews progress, science, DNA & archeogolist have proven that most of todays Jews, are not SEMITIC. Shem.
    So Iraq, Turkey & southern Russia is real home of todays Jews, NOT ISRAEL.

  12. jkc

    September 8, 2009 at 2:34 am

    You should all read the book EXODUS by LEON URIS and then start blabbing your mouths off

  13. kk

    September 24, 2009 at 3:32 am

    surprizingly, world powers preferred to be absent. Are they scared of shame of what they did during the GAZA invasion? My understanding that world powers don’t need to be shameless as they already lost the shame under the political EXCUSE. After Gaza invasion, US President should have questioned ISRAEL the over weighted response handed down to Gaza civilians why ISRAEL shouldn’t be tried for crimes against humanity.

  14. abubakar

    September 24, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    GOD knows the iran president is saying the truth.may GOD bless him n iran

  15. Dick Mills

    September 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    September 27, 2009

    I highly commend Jeremy Hammond for his efforts in presenting the text of this speech by Ahmadinejad’s speech to the U.N. I also heartily agree with his assessments of certain comments in the remarks he posted afterward.

    It is a real shame that the representatives of many Western nations walked out on what, in my estimation, was a fine speech. In doing so, they behaved like a bunch of elementary school children who pick up the ball and go home when they don’t get their ways. But you can be sure that all of these “children” know what was contained in the speech and certainly felt the sting of well-deserved criticism for their own actions and those of their predecessors.

    That Ahmadinejad is demonized by what I call “The New World Order Crowd” comes as no surprise. Having their hands on the major economic, military, and monetary levers of power, they certainly will resist any competition to control that power. History is filled with examples of the lust for money (the root of all evil according to the Bible), and the lust for power to control others that comes with that money.

    While I did not agree with all that Mr. Ahmadinejad said and proposed, I find most of his comments and observations right on target. I scored each comment of substance and out of scores of them only had question marks by eight or ten. The few remarks that I marked as disagreement were really on his methods of accomplishing the goals he proposed–that is, collective, international “governance” which would only make things worse with its coercive measures and repression of liberty.

    Finally, some of the comments above were really amusing, showing the bias, prejudice, and yes, maybe even racism of their own. Mostly, however, I think they sprang from ignorance of history and first principles. Again, I gave 95 per cent of the comments positive marks with but a few disagreements.

    That Zionism could be equated with “racism” and “Jewishness” by any stretch of the imagination simply shows the extreme bias and non-objectivity of the commenter. As Zionism itself is many centuries old and has been opposed by many, many Jews over the centuries, it really indicates a gross lack of historical perspective by those who blindly, and I think wrongly, give their allegiance, their resources, and even the lives of their sons and daughters, in defense of the modern political Israeli state (not Biblical Israel) created by the wrong-headed and corrupt United Nations in 1948. That any opposition to this political creation is viewed as “anti-Semitism” or “racial hatred” is just absurd. Those with such shallow minds take a deep breath and an in-depth course in Middle Eastern History.

    Dick Mills
    Editor
    Keep the Republic Newsletter keeptherepublic@pdq.net
    Houston, Texas

  16. Faruque Ahmed

    October 3, 2009 at 8:42 am

    I have written “Do you have the guts to answer me honestly?” to many academics and thinkers for an honest answer. Alas! They are silent!! Do you now why?

    Do you have the guts to answer me honestly?

    Could you kindly act like a human being and let me know about “1”, “2”, “3” and “4”. Please do not act like a lamb. Please present your reason in support of or reason against these “1”, “2”, “3” and “4” below. I am sure you will find out the real monkey here!

    1. WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM
    http://muslimguilty.blogspot.com/2009/03/world-conference-against-racism.html

    2. Full Text of President Ahmadinejad’s Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism and
    http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2009/04/21/full-text-of-president-ahmadinejads-remarks-at-un-conference-on-racism/

    3. Full text of Ahmadinejad’s Speech to the UN General Assembly (Sep-23-2009) are wrong and why?
    http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september232009/iran_pres_un_9-23-09.php#

    4. Could you also let me know your assessment about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN General Assembly?
    http://www.aish.com/jw/me/62541617.html#

  17. Kruzinski

    October 10, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Without question, many of his points are valid. The Israeli’s are not without their faults, and they have many. The world economic situation he describes, certainly rings true. However, he must be held accountable for his brutal repression of the protestors in his own country this past summer. Another Hitler? Absolutely not. A man and a situation requiring much diplomacy? Absolutely!

  18. Jared Israel

    October 31, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    How easily some are fooled. That Ahmadinejad is feigning opposition to racism and imperialism to suck people in is obvious from the fact that he says the great third world national liberation struggles *preceded* World War I! In other words, this is Advertising copy aimed at IMITATING a left wing viewpoint, and his writers have so little interest in what they are fabricating that they can’t even bother to check the facts.

    • Jeremy R. Hammond

      November 1, 2009 at 1:40 am

      That Ahmadinejad is feigning opposition to racism and imperialism to suck people in is obvious from the fact that he says the great third world national liberation struggles *preceded* World War I!

      Not sure which comment you’re referring to.

  19. Jared Israel

    October 31, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    I guess Ahmadinejad’s writers don’t HAVE to check facts because there is a pool of people steeped in hatred of Jews who likewise have their heads full of complete nonsense, such as one Dick Mills, above, who writes:

    “As Zionism itself is many centuries old and has been opposed by many, many Jews over the centuries.”

    In fact, Zionism came into existence in the 1890s. But who needs facts?

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    November 30, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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