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'No homosexuals in Iran': Ahmadinejad6 hours ago NEW YORK (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran on Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country," Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience. "In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don't know who has told you that we have it," he said. Ahmadinejad was challenged during his appearance on Amnesty International figures that suggested that 200 people...

Standing before a parade of missile-bearing trucks with signs declaring "Down with the U.S." and "Down with Israel," Iran's loudmouth leader warned yesterday that his country will not be intimidated. "Those [countries] who assume that decaying methods such as psychological war, political propaganda and the so-called economic sanctions would work and prevent Iran's fast drive toward progress are mistaken," said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. His words came just two days before he was to make a controversial speaking appearance at Columbia University ahead of his U.N. General Assembly address Tuesday.