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Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech
Radio Free Europe ^ | 29 November 2005 | Golnaz Esfandiari

Posted on 11/29/2005 9:55:29 AM PST by jmc1969

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says that when he delivered his speech at the UN General Assembly in September, he felt there was a light around him and that the attention of the world leaders in the audience was unblinkingly focused upon him. The claim has caused a stir in Iran, as a transcript and video recording of Ahmadinejad's comments have been published on an Iranian website, baztab.com.

"He said when you began with the words 'in the name of God,' I saw that you became surrounded by a light until the end ," Ahmadinejad appears to say in the video. "I felt it myself, too. I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there, and for 27-28 minutes all the leaders did not blink."

Ahmadinejad adds that he is not exaggerating.

"I am not exaggerating when I say they did not blink; it's not an exaggeration, because I was looking," he says. "They were astonished as if a hand held them there and made them sit. It had opened their eyes and ears for the message of the Islamic Republic."

Iranian legislator Akbar Alami has questioned Ahmadinejad's apparent claims, saying that even Islam's holiest figures have never made such claims.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; ahmadinejadvisit; iran
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1 posted on 11/29/2005 9:55:29 AM PST by jmc1969
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That was hellfire...........


2 posted on 11/29/2005 9:56:37 AM PST by Red Badger (There are no female angels..............)
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I'm sure this will generate some interesting photos.


3 posted on 11/29/2005 9:56:39 AM PST by Brilliant
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That wasn't the light of Allah.
It was the infra-red aiming module from the AN/PEQ-2A of an SFOD-D warrior.


4 posted on 11/29/2005 9:58:25 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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5 posted on 11/29/2005 9:58:33 AM PST by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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This guy is getting scarier by the minute. He's now in full Kim Jong Il mode.


6 posted on 11/29/2005 9:58:54 AM PST by lesser_satan
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7 posted on 11/29/2005 9:59:04 AM PST by inkling
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Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad says that when he delivered his speech at the UN General Assembly in September, he felt there was a light around him...

An "Angel of Light"...now what was that angel's name?

8 posted on 11/29/2005 9:59:58 AM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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Claiming to be a messenger from God is considered heresy. This nutcase sealed his fate.


9 posted on 11/29/2005 10:00:58 AM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
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Sounds like something Looie Farrakhan would say.

"I was surrounded by light . . . it was the mutha ship coming faw me!"

10 posted on 11/29/2005 10:01:17 AM PST by Alberta's Child (What it all boils down to is that no one's really got it figured out just yet.)
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he felt there was a light around him

He better have that looked at, could be a sign of an impending stroke.

11 posted on 11/29/2005 10:01:17 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: Dark Skies

Lucifer. Also known as Accuser, which is in Hebrew prounounced "satan".


12 posted on 11/29/2005 10:01:49 AM PST by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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An "Angel of Light"...now what was that angel's name?

"Hmmm, I wonder who it could be. Could it be....SATAN?"

13 posted on 11/29/2005 10:01:59 AM PST by dfwgator
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15 posted on 11/29/2005 10:02:27 AM PST by Semi Civil Servant
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LOL!


16 posted on 11/29/2005 10:03:15 AM PST by Dark Skies ("The sleeper must awaken!")
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To: cripplecreek

i was hoping that was the light he felt.


18 posted on 11/29/2005 10:03:53 AM PST by jw777
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Here too.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530185/posts


19 posted on 11/29/2005 10:04:17 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Starkers.


20 posted on 11/29/2005 10:05:18 AM PST by Stentor
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