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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Iran's President Claims His Country Has No Homosexuals
Was watching the speech on the Columbia lawn with a few thousand other students - this was by far the comment (and section of the speech) that received the most distaste from the crowd.
Try as he did, Ahmadinejad couldn't spin anything good about women's rights in Iran beyond weak rhetoric and did not even try to look good on the issue of homosexuality.
Was watching the speech on the Columbia lawn with a few thousand other students - this was by far the comment (and section of the speech) that received the most distaste from the crowd.
ReplyDeleteTry as he did, Ahmadinejad couldn't spin anything good about women's rights in Iran beyond weak rhetoric and did not even try to look good on the issue of homosexuality.