Obama was in NYC:
http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obama-due-here-for-fund-raiser-then-a-rally/63235/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/nyregion/24visit.html
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/ahmadinejad-discloses-his-talks-with-us.html
Mahmoud also disclosed that he held a discussion with one of the presidential candidates while he was in New York last year.
Iranian Rooz Online reported:
He then reminded his audience that, “There are signs of this retreat all over the world, including inside the US itself. When I was in New York last year, one of the American presidential candidates told me, ‘I wish to advance in this country the very statements that you make there.’ And when I asked him why, he said that people here like these words. Your words resonate here and people embrace them. Today the heart of the whole world is with us. The Iranian is dear wherever he goes around the world. I sent a message to the US when I was in Iraq and asked what they were threatening Iran with. I have seen and have specific information that your very soldiers and military force is with us.”
http://www.roozonline.com/english/archives/2008/07/the_whole_world_is_behind_us.html
another quote from this article:
In his latest talk, Ahmadinejad called his task a “global mission” and claimed, “If the world saw the resistance of the piousness and justice of the Iranian nation, it would come to us in multitudes. The missing Imam is the symbol of all goodness and justice and we have the task of inviting the world to a perfect humanity. The stronger this call is, the stronger will be its effect and no one will be able to withstand it. The Velayat regime (reference to rule of the clerics) means a loud call to accept the missing Imam, which is the reason of the survival of the regime.”
related and background links:
http://mcc.org/news/news/2006/2006-09-22_sponsorsmeeting.html
Nearly 45 religious leaders from Christian and Muslim faith backgrounds met with the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sept. 20, in an open discussion about the role religious communities can play in reversing the deepening crisis between Iran and the United States.
http://www.nkusa.org/activities/Meetings/20070924Ahmadinejad.cfm
On Monday Sep. 24, '07 in the Intercontinental Hotel, at 48th St. and Lexington Ave. New York City at 9:00am anti-Zionist Orthdox Rabbis met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad then participated in a counter demonstration against protestors of the Iranian President in the Dag Hamerskold Plaza at the United Nations followed by a counter demonstration during the speech of the Iranian president at Colombia University.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/world/middleeast/27clerics.html
At the clerics’ meeting, Albert Lobe, executive director of the Mennonite Central Committee, said pointedly, “We mean to extend to you the hospitality which a head of state deserves.”
The session was part of a concerted push by these religious leaders to increase political support in the United States for talks with Iran. Some of these religious leaders also met with Mr. Ahmadinejad last year in New York and in February on a trip to Iran.
One critic said that these religious leaders were well intentioned, but naïve.
Malcolm I. Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said in a telephone interview: “They’re not going to convince him. Their very presence there gives him respectability.”
Ms. McNish, of the American Friends Service Committee, said the reverse was true: “The more we isolate him, the more support he gets at home.”
But even the Bahais, a minority religious group that has suffered persecution in Iran, said they supported these efforts at dialogue with the Iranian government. They had been invited to the prior meetings, but the Iranian side refused to come if Bahais were there, said Kit Bigelow, director of external affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of the United States.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0705543.htm
Ahmadinejad responded to questions submitted by invited panelists who included Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen, editor of the national Catholic magazine America; Karen A. Hamilton, a Canadian Anglican who is general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches; the Rev. Chris Ferguson, a Canadian who represents the World Council of Churches at the United Nations; and Glen Stassen, a professor of Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical institution.
http://www.afsc.org/news/2007/Peace-churches-host-dialoguewith-Iranian-President.htm
More than 100 religious leaders today participated in an hour-long, interfaith encounter with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Church Center for the United Nations. The gathering was organized by the Mennonite Central Committee and endorsed by the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, the Mennonite Church USA, the Mennonite Church Canada and the Church of the Brethren General Board. Other endorsers included Sojourners/Call to Renewal, Pax Christi USA, the World Council of Churches Commission of Churches on International Affairs, and the World Conference of Religions for Peace. The meeting also included Catholics, Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and others.
This is the third in a series of conversations focused on establishing a dialogue between people of faith in the United States and the people and government of Iran. The discussions began with the Iranian President’s visit to the U.N. in September of last year when 43 U.S. religious leaders met with him at his hotel. In February, 13 American religious leaders visited Iran where they met with a variety of governmental, academic and religious leaders.
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/archives/news/world/20070929-ahmadinejad-chavez-morales-bolivia-america.php
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Caracas Thursday for talks with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, following a brief trip to Bolivia, another anti-US ally in South America.
Chavez and fellow leftist President Evo Morales, of Bolivia, both support Iran's controversial nuclear program and, like Ahmadinejad, are virulent critics of the US administration.
The two South American nations have reached a number of trade and aid agreements with Iran, particularly in the energy sector.
In La Paz, Ahmadinejad and Morales signed a joint statement recognizing "the rights of developing nations to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T107680&show_article=1
(Nov. 19, 2007) "God willing, with the fall of the dollar, the deviant U.S. imperialism will fall as soon as possible, too," Chavez said after a two-hour closed meeting with Ahmadinejad, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.
As the dollar weakens, oil prices have soared toward $100 a barrel. Chavez said over the weekend at the OPEC meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that prices would more than double to $200 if the U.S. attacked Iran or Venezuela.
"The U.S. empire is coming down," Chavez told Venezuelan TV, calling the European Union's euro a better option and saying Latin American nations were also considering a common currency.
The leftist Venezuelan is a fierce critic of President Bush, and Iran's Islamic government is in a bitter standoff with Washington over Tehran's nuclear program. The U.S. accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a claim Tehran denies, and Iran has been hit with two rounds of U.N. sanctions for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
Ahmadinejad backed his "dear brother" Chavez in their joint fight with the Bush administration.
"We have common viewpoints and we will stand by each other until we capture the high peaks. God is with us and victory is awaiting us," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by IRNA. He said he and Chavez would stick together to defend their "nations and ideals to the end."
http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=25467
"Despite a new round of UN sanctions over its nuclear activities, Iran still thinks it is ahead," wrote BBC's world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds in early March, 2008.
"The enemies of the nation and bullying powers do not dare to admit that this nation has won in the nuclear field," Reynolds quoted the Iranian president as saying.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has strengthened his ties with Iran as India also pledged a soft loan package of $100 million for Sri Lankan defence department to buy arms and ammunition as revealed by India's leading business daily Economic Times, on Sunday.
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2007/07/2810183
THE OIL WEAPON
http://faustasblog.com/2007/09/from-illich-ramirez-to-osama-bin-laden.html
In a nearer and more dangerous scenario, which also has Venezuela as a starting point, Hezbollah in Latin America, also called Hezbollah Venezuela, converts to Islam any indigenous Chavista it can, because they are the ones that least understand what is going on. Evangelical missionaries have disappeared from the jungle because according to Chavez they are genocidal spies. Evo Morales in Bolivia repeats Chavez's same words.
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/iranians-plant-their-flag-in-wilds-of-nicaragua/70934/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Iran---The-Root-Of-World-Wide-Terror&id=801190
http://www.meforum.org/article/670
9-11 Commission: Iran's link to Al-Qaeda
