Ahmadinejad's 'halo' mocked by Iranians

Times:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is being mocked in the run-up to this week's Iranian presidential elections for a videoclip in which he boasts of how world leaders watched him for almost half an hour without blinking as he spoke in a halo of light to the United Nations.

The speech in question was in September 2005 when the Iranian President used his first address to the UN General Assembly in New York to indulge in a bit of his favourite sport, bashing America.

Afterwards, according to a videoclip that has gone viral in the e-mail inboxes of Tehran, he told a top cleric, Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, that a "light" had enveloped him and that the crowd stared at him unblinkingly during the entire speech.

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“I sensed it myself too ... I felt the atmosphere changed. All leaders in audience didn’t blink for 27, 28 minutes. I’m not exaggerating when I’m saying they didn’t blink. Everybody had been astonished ... they had opened their eyes and ears to see what is the message from the Islamic Republic.”

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The clip in question was released after Mr Ahmadinejad denied making the comment about the "light" surrounding him at the UN. Mr Mousavi’s daily newspaper, Kalemeh Sabz, or Green Word, said in a front-page report that the Ayatollah's office confirmed that the video is authentic.

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YouTube does not forget. Ahmadinejad is arrogant enough to believe both what he said and then deny saying it. Whether it will be enough to overcome the beliefs of the religious bigots of Iran is still an open question.

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