ADL slams Ahmadinejad, Farrakhan for NYC meeting
Times of Israel, Sep 28 2012

The ADL on Thursday blasted Ahmadinejad for hosting 79-year-old Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Tuesday at a dinner for “leaders of Abrahamic religions.” In a press release, the ADL said:

This meeting of two leading purveyors of anti-Semitism is yet another example of the extreme views of the Iranian government toward Jews and Israel and their attempt to promote those hateful views before a USAian audience by consorting with like-minded bigots.

Abe Foxman expanded:

The Iranian president may have held back in his speech to the UN, but when he was not speaking on the dais before world leaders, Ahmadinejad once again gave voice to his virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments. I’m sure the irony is lost on no one that the Iranian government felt it necessary to invite one of the foremost purveyors of anti-Semitism in the US to have dinner with their president and foreign minister. Ahmadinejad and the Iranian regime apparently will go to any extreme, even consorting with like-minded bigots, to endorse their warped worldview.

The Iranian leader reportedly said at the dinner:

If in every country today, and in USAia in particular, they were to take a poll, they would see that the majority of the people are opposed to the Zionists and would end support of the Zionist regime.

He also said he believed “Zionists” were behind the “Innocence of Muslims” film. The Iranian leader’s remarks were posted on his government web pages, along with a photo of Ahmadinejad sitting behind a table with a smiling Louis Farrakhan and others.