Ahmadinejads tal i Genève

Europarådets kommissarie för MR, Thomas Hammarberg, gav i Studio ett (20/4) sin syn på Ahmadinejad och hans tal:

Han har ju förnekat att Förintelsen överhuvudtaget har inträffat och därmed är han ju mycket olämplig som talesman i en diskussion om hur man stoppar rasism.

Hammarberg säger också att Ahmadinejad utnyttjade tillfället "för att vädra rasistiska åsikter på en konferens mot rasismen".
Joakim Wohlfeil är starkt kritisk till Israel men intar en tydlig antirasistisk hållning i frågan om Ahmadinejads antisemitiska budskap. Wohlfeil skriver i Diakonias blogg:

Irans president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad är knappast en person som överhuvudtaget borde få vara med på en konferens för att bekämpa rasism och främlingsfientlighet. Att han använder tillfället till att hetsa mot världens judar och att säga att staten Israel inte har rätt att existera, är naturligtvis dels ett desperat försök att vända bort det egna folkets ögon från hans misslyckade regim och dels ett försök att vinna sympati i Arabvärlden.Det innebär också att han inleder konferensen med att istället främja rasism, antisemitism och intolerans, tyvärr ser han nog inte det som nåt problem.

Ahmadinejads kommentarer inför avresan

"Zionists impose their will for looting nations on the world by controlling the world's power centers," he added.

The Iranian president further underlined that Zionists are controlling behavior of the western governments through propaganda and psychological warfare.

Det ursprungliga talet
Talet Ahmadinejad framförde (Se talet på Youtube -del1 2 3 4)
Utdrag:

Was the motive behind the invasion of Iraq anything other than the arrogance of the then US administration and the mounting pressures on the part of the possessors of wealth and power to expand their sphere of influence seeking the interests of giant arms manufacturing companies affecting a noble culture with thousands of years of historical background, eliminating the potential and practical threats of Muslim countries against the Zionist regime or to control and plunder the energy resources of the Iraqi people?
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World Zionism personifies racism that falsely resorts to religions and abuses religious sentiments to hide its hatred and ugly face. However, it is of great importance to bring into focus the political goals of some of the world powers and those who control huge economic resources and interests in the world. They mobilize all the resources including their economic and political influence and world media to render support in vain to the Zionist regime and to maliciously diminish the indignity and disgrace of this regime.

Talet i FN 23/8 -2008
Utdrag:

The dignity, integrity and rights of the American and European people are being played with by a small but deceitful number of people called Zionists. Although they are a miniscule minority, they have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centers as well as the political decision-making centers of some European countries and the US in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner. It is deeply disastrous to witness that some presidential or premiere nominees in some big countries have to visit these people, take part in their gatherings, swear their allegiance and commitment to their interests in order to attain financial or media support.

This means that the great people of America and various nations of Europe need to obey the demands and wishes of a small number of acquisitive and invasive people. These nations are spending their dignity and resources on the crimes and occupations and the threats of the Zionist network against their will.