Reuters reported that Iran's Ahmadinejad said at the UN on September 23, 2010 the following:
(1) "There is no evidence that 3000 people were killed on 9/11"
(2) "The U.S. trumped up 9/11 to cover its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq"
(3) "No Zionists were killed in the attacks because one day earlier they were told not to go to their workplace"
Addressing the UN General Assembly on September 23, 2010, Ahmadinejad said that the September 11 attacks were orchestrated by elements within the US government in order "to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime."
Ahmadinejad said there were “three viewpoints” in identifying those responsible for the September 11 attacks. The main viewpoint, he said, “advocated by American statesmen,” is that “a very powerful and complex terrorist group, able to successfully cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out the attack.”
The second viewpoint – which Ahmadinejad called the viewpoint of “the majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians” – was “that some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack in order to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.”
Finally, he said, some believe September 11 “was carried out by a terrorist group but the American government supported and took advantage of the situation.” He conceded that “this viewpoint has fewer proponents.”
Ahmadinejad announced that, in light of this professed ambiguity as to the guilty parties, Iran will host a conference “to study terrorism and the means to confront it.”
The Reuters report said, "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the United Nations most people believe that the U.S. government was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, prompting the U.S. and European delegations to leave the hall in protest. "They were joined by all 27 European Union delegations and several other countries... Addressing the General Assembly he said it was mostly U.S. government officials and statesmen who believed al Qaeda Islamist militants carried out the suicide hijacking attacks that brought down New York's World Trade Center -- less than 4 miles from where the Iranian president was speaking."
Ahmadinejad is perhaps having a 'good influence' on other Islamic leaders. MEMRI reported at least three other Islamic leaders have echoed the Big Lie of 9/11. In the U.S., in an interview on Al Jazeera English, the leader of the Nation of Islam, Lewis Farrakhan said, "What proof have we heard from those wicked deceivers [the U.S.A.] that it was Osama bin Laden who carried out 9/11?"
Former Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister Abdallah Al-Asba'ai said, "9/11 was the single work of U.S. Intelligence and the Israeli Mossad." Former Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N., Muhammoud Al-Douri said: "The U.S. has managed to unite almost all the world behind it. In light of this we can offer at least one reason for the events of 9/11 - it is possible that the U.S. itself was behind it."
Sources:
Horn, Jordana and the Associated Press (September 26, 2010). Obama, Ban Ki-moon condemn Ahmadinejad's 9/11 Comments. Jerusalem Post.
Charbonneau, Louis (September 23, 2010). Reuters. Ahmadinejad tells U.N. most blame U.S. gov't for 9/11.
Middle East Media Research Institute [MEMRI] (October 20, 2010). Farrakhan on Al-Jazeera English TV: No proof that Bin Laden carried out 9/11; former Egyptian Foreign Minister and former Iraqi Ambassador to U.N.: The US was behind 9/11. Special Dispatch 3310.
