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Ahmadinejad Asks U.N. to Investigate 9/11
 Robert Mackey - New York Times
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April 14, 2010
| | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday in Tehran. (Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters) | |
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said last month that the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, were “a big fabrication,” wrote to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, on Tuesday to ask him to open an investigation into the events of that day.
In a letter to the secretary general, Mr. Ahmadinejad asked him to “form an independent fact-finding committee trusted by regional countries on major elements behind [the] September 11 attack which was carried out as the main pretext to attack the Middle East,” according to the Iranian Students News Agency.
The letter also accused “NATO intelligence and security forces in Afghanistan” and “some American and European media” of supporting terrorist attacks by Baluchi militants in Iran’s southeast. In February, when Iran announced the arrest of Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Baluchi militant group Jundallah, it broadcast video of the captured rebel on state television in which he claimed that he had acted with support from the Obama administration.
Barbara Plett, the BBC’s U.N. correspondent, reports from New York that the secretary general’s office “said that it was studying the letter from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but had no comment.”
A somewhat muddled translation of Mr. Ahmadinejad’s letter on the Iranian news agency’s Web site (which, in places, does not match the same agency’s own report on it) suggests that Iran’s president also made an oblique reference to the killing of protesters during the violent crackdown on dissent after Iran’s dispute election last year. Accusing Western media organizations of being part of a plot against his country, Mr. Ahmadinejad wrote that they “use a small mistake of a police officer — in countries that defy hegemony and imperialistic policies — to raise loud and deafening cries pretending to be in deep grief for human rights abuse.”
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