This article is crazy fascinating. Read on.
And a side note: I'm thinking, and this is just a wild stab at logic, that since this man and this country are currently the object of our government's most belligerent rhetoric, we oughtta read every goddamn thing we can to inform ourselves, arm ourselves, anti-Judith Millercize ourselves, Knight Riddify ourselves in preparation for where the wind is blowing, where the tide is, uh, tiding. No excuses. None of this "well, I'm just not veery political perrrson" bullshit.
Now, this interview talks some about Holocaust denial, but is much much more than that. It reveals the president of Iran's way of thinking and is possibly a window into an entire school of thought, I don't know. But I do know that this interview oughtta be the very tip of the iceberg.
Other side note: I LOVE the way European media engages its interviewees rather than stenographizes.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/30/ahmadinejad_interview/
"We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust"
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about Israel, his letter to Bush and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Editor's note: Following is an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conducted by German newsmagazine Der Spiegel in Tehran, Iran.
By Stefan Aust, Gerhard Spörl and Dieter Bednarz
May 30, 2006 Spiegel: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer. Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?
Ahmadinejad: It depends. Naturally, I'll be watching the game in any case. I don't know yet whether I'll be at home in front of the television set or somewhere else. My decision depends upon a number of things.
Spiegel: For example?
Ahmadinejad: How much time I have, how the state of various relationships are going, whether I feel like it and a number of other things.
Spiegel: There was great indignation in Germany when it became known that you might be coming to the soccer world championship. Did that surprise you?
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/05/30/ahmadinejad_interview/
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Ahmadinejad is one incredibly complicated man, but at the same time, he seems quite smart. I wonder how much of all of this -- this interview, and the now-infamous letter to George Bush -- is Ahmadinejad the man, and how much is Ahmadinejad the president? Assuming, of course, the latter has different goals and motives from the former. Thanks for sharing this interview.
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