Death of American is Nigh

President Ahmedinejad predicts the "end of America"

Ahmedinejad says American Empire "nearing its end"

Iranian President tells U.N.: "A few bullying powers"creating world's problems
Ahmedinejad says: Attacking Iran would be "worst thing theU.S. government can do"
Ahmedinejad says Hostility with the U.S. "has not been from our end"
In a blistering speech before the United NationsGeneral Assembly, Iranian President MahmoudAhmedinejad blamed "a few bullying powers" forcreating the world's problems and said the "Americanempire in the world is reaching the end of its road."
And while he insisted Iran's nuclear activities arepeaceful, Ahmedinejad blamed the same powers forseeking to hinder it "by exerting political andeconomic pressures on Iran, and threatening andpressuring" the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Those powers, meanwhile, are building or maintainingnuclear stockpiles themselves, unchecked by anyone, hesaid.
As Ahmedinejad spoke, the only person at the UnitedStates table was a note-taker; no U.S. diplomat waspresent. When President Bush spoke earlier Tuesday,however, Ahmedinejad was in the room.
Ahmedinejad's comments were some of themost conciliatory he had made to the United States.
"As long as the aggressors, because of theirfinancial, political and propaganda powers, not onlyescape punishment, but even claim righteousness, andas long as wars are started and nations are enslavedin order to win votes in elections, not only will theproblems of the global community remain unsolved, butthey will be increasingly exacerbated," the Iranianleader said.
He accused the United States of oppressing Iraqis withsix years of occupation, saying Americans were "stillseeking to solidify their position in the politicalgeography of the region and to dominate oilresources."
Meanwhile, he said, Palestinians have undergone "60years of carnage and invasion ... at the hands of somecriminal and occupying Zionists."
He said Zionists in Israel "have forged a regimethrough collecting people from various parts of theworld and bringing them to other people's land, bydisplacing, detaining and killing the true owners ofthat land."
The Security Council, he said, "cannot do anything,and sometimes under pressure from a few bullyingpowers, even paves the way for supporting theseZionist murders."
He stopped short of calling for Israel to bepolitically wiped off the map as he has in the past.He called for "a free referendum in Palestine fordetermining and establishing the type of state in theentire Palestinian lands."
Ahmedinejad pointed to what he said are signs of hope,saying an increasing number of nations are turningtheir backs on "the bullying powers" and seeking toestablish new relations.
"Today the Zionist regime is on a definite slope tocollapse," he said.
The Anti-Defamation League released a statement sayingthe Iranian leader showed he "is deeply infected withanti-Semitism" and displayed "the true threat theIranian regime poses to Israel, the United States andthe West."
Hours before Ahmedinejad's speech, Bush told theGeneral Assembly that Iran was among the nations that"continue to sponsor terror."
"Yet their numbers are growing fewer, and they'regrowing more isolated from the world," Bush said.
Bush also said U.N. members needed to enforcesanctions against Iran for failing to suspend itsnuclear program, which the United States and otherWestern nations believe is intended to develop nuclearweapons.
Before Ahmedinejad spoke to the U.N., he saidthat he is willing to meet with presidential candidates John McCain and BarackObama -- even in front of the media -- to discussworld issues and debate.
But he has no preference between the two, he said inthe interview that aired 23 September 2008.
"We believe that these are issues relating to thedomestic affairs of the United States," Ahmedinejadsaid.
"And decisions pertaining to that must be made by theAmerican people. And it's not important to us either,"Ahmedinejad said. "What matters essentially is thatthe president that is chosen by the American peopleshould adopt a path and a policy approach and for usto observe the policy approach.
"This is the campaign period, anyone can say anything.So we disregard that. What matters is that oncesomeone is in office, we have to watch and see if thatperson will bring about some changes in policy orcontinue the same old path."
Ahmedinejad was in New York City for the UnitedNations General Assembly meeting, which began Tuesday.
"I have said that, in fact, on this very trip,currently in New York, that I am ready to speak withthe presidential candidates before the press”.
“I believe that we've really done whateverwe could do in this respect."
Asked whether he fears a U.S. attack, Ahmedinejad toldKing that attacking Iran would be the "worst thing theU.S. government can do ... I think that in the UnitedStates, there are enough reasonable people, smartpeople, who would not allow the U.S. government tomake such a big mistake."
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, meanwhile, wouldbe "the best scenario," Ahmedinejad said. "But I thinkthat it needs a timetable ... the presence of theUnited States there has not reduced tension and it hasnot limited terrorism either. In fact, it hasincreased terrorism."
On hostility between the United States and Iran,Ahmedinejad said "The hostility has not beenfrom our end. Up to this day, we have always beeninterested in having friendly relations."
Iran, he said later, "throughout history ... hasdemonstrated that it is a nation that is for peace andfriendly with others."
And he insisted Iran's nuclear program is for peacefulpurposes, despite Western nations' concern to thecontrary.
"Their concerns about us are not new," he told King ofthe West. "They've always been concerned. They werethe ones who inspired Saddam [Hussein] to attack Iranand get us involved in an eight-year war. Theterrorist groups that killed our president, our primeminister, our officials, are now freely asked to livein the Western countries."
The nuclear issue, he said, has been politicized andis not a legal struggle at all, noting theInternational Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclearwatchdog group, has "not detected any noncompliance ordeviation" on the part of Tehran.
Ahmedinejad spoke extensively of Iran's support forPalestinians. The Iranian leader previously has madestatements suggesting that Israel be politically"wiped off the map," though he insists that can beaccomplished without violence. He has questioned theexistence of the Holocaust, the genocidal Nazicampaign against European Jews, and warned Europeansthat they may pay a heavy price for its support ofIsrael.
He insisted, however, that he and his country wish noharm to Jews.
"We have no problems with Jewish people," he said."There are many Jews who live in Iran today ... butplease pay attention to the fact that the Zionists arenot Jews. They have no religion ... they just have --wear masks of religiosity. How can you possibly bereligious and occupy the land of other people?"
On the Holocaust, he said an impartial group shouldresearch whether it happened as has been claimed.
"There is a claim that the extent of the calamity waswhat it was," Ahmedinejad said. "There are people whoagree with it. There are people who disagree."
Ahmedinejad has also caused controversy by previouslysuggesting there were no homosexuals in Iran.Regarding that statement, he said "I said it isnot the way it is here. In Iran this is considered avery -- obviously, most people dislike it. And wehave, actually, a law regarding it and the law isenforced."
However, he said, "we do pay attention that in Irannobody interferes in the private lives of individuals.We have nothing to do with the private realm ofpeople. This is at the -- non-private, publicmorality. In their own house, nobody ever interferes."