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The Iranian whose name cannot be spelled gave a speech at the UN this evening but his speech differed quite a bit from the transcript.

NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York to protests Sunday and said in a television interview that Iran was neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States. The president's motorcade pulled up to the midtown hotel where he will be staying while he appears at a series of events including the U.N. General Assembly and a forum at Columbia University, where about 40 elected officials and civic leaders decried his visit. Ahmadinejad's public-relations push appears aimed at presenting his views directly to a U.S. audience amid rising strains and talk of...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, watches an annual military parade in Tehran on Sept. 22, 2007. (CBS) TEHRAN, Iran -- A day before flying to New York to speak directly to the American people, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a confrontational tone Saturday with a parade of fighter jets and missiles and tough warnings for the United States to stay out of the Mideast. Three new domestically manufactured warplanes streaked over the capital during the parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, which sparked a 1980-88 war that killed hundreds of thousands of people. The...

Ahmadinejad: I’m not anti-Semitic Iranian leader tells reporters in New York, ‘There were those who had accused me of being a murderer and anti-Semitic, but I’m not an anti-Semite’; adds: We have said that under fair and just conditions we will negotiate on nuclear program Yitzhak Benhorin Published: 09.21.06, 21:42 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a press conference in New York on Thursday "We love everyone in the world - Jews, Christians, Muslims, non-Muslims, non-Jews, non-Christians. "We are against ugly acts. We are against occupation, aggression, killings and displacing people - otherwise we have no problem with ordinary people....