Posted on 09/20/2007 3:22:13 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
Tehran, 20 Sept. (AKI) - A research centre run by the office of the president of Iran has released a 15-page document in which they define President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the "Socrates of the Third Millenium".
The document has been released just days before Ahmadinejad is due to visit New York. The Iranian president will arrive in the city on Sunday to address the United Nations General Assembly.
In the document, various speeches and letters written by the Iranian president are analysed and it concludes that "Ahmadinejad reasons and discusses exactly as Socrates did in ancient Greece, by disarming other speakers and through his sharp reasoning."
"It's mainly the irony used by the president in his dialogue with foreigners," said the document refering to letters Ahmadinejad had written to Pope Benedict XVI, US president George Bush and German president Angela Merkel.
Just ahead of Ahmadinejad's visit to New York, the president's cultural advisor, Javad Shamaghdari said that the Iranian government is willing to collaborate with the American director Oliver Stone to make a documentary on the Iranian president. Ahmadinejad had initially rejected a request to do the project by the Oscar-winning director.
"Oliver Stone should visit Iran and familiarise himself with the reality of the country, before beginning his documentary of Ahmadinejad," said Shamaghdari.
In July, another advisor to the president, Mehdi Kalhor , told the media that Ahmadinejad had refused the offer by Oliver Stone "eventhough the director is considered to be against the current US president."
"The West shows a distorted image of Iranian culture" and a documentary done by Stone could offer the public something different," said Shamaghdari.
Oliver Stone has already done documentaries about Fidel Castro and the Israeli-Palestine conflict.
Also ahead of Ahmadinejad's visit to New York, the authorities in the city turned down a request by the president's office to visit Ground Zero, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the city.
New York police said his request was rejected on security grounds as well as because construction is taking place at the site.
Ahmadinejad's plan to visit Ground Zero angered critics who were outraged by the idea that the leader of a country Washington considers a state sponsor of terrorism, would visit a "hallowed" ground.
In your ear, Mahmoud!
The sooner one of his own countrymen puts a bullet in his scrambled brain, the better off Iran and the world will be.
>>Can I bring him the hemlock? Please? Pretty PLEASE?<<
Beat me to the punch.
get the hemlock!
It’s nice that he’s so modest about it.
I’ll bet that translates as “sockpuppet” instead.
lol! Now that’s called ‘competing priorities’!
“Dear Sir, I would like to talk to you personally to learn more about your view on the present situation in the world. Could we all live in peace one day? Yours sincerely, Gea Verhaar The Netherlands”.................
Dear Sir, would you be so kind as to furnish me with some extra fine Russian vodka, so I can more easily absorb the cowardly utterings of fools like Gea Verhaar?
Thank you,
Grateful One, C/o Free Republic, U.S.A.
Hope it wasn’t a hemlock punch...
Perhaps he is the Soh Krates of the new millenium.
My best to Bill and Ted.
Jim
The Testicles of the Third Millennium, more like.
LOL
or:
Dear Sir,
would you be so kind as to join us for tea?
Thank You,
Sgt.American Hero
c/o US MILITARY
Heh..!
Can we just skip the whole “corruption of the youth” thing this time and get straight to the part where he drinks hemlock?
I wonder if the Iranians know that many historians think that Plato and Socrates had a little lovin’ going on.
Plato, being 40 years younger than Socrates, could very well have been one of the youths Socrates attempted to corrupt.
Even more reason to take heed of Platos warnings regarding the tyranny of appetites.
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