President Barack Obama called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the United Nations yesterday “offensive” and “hateful.”
In his first comments on the Iranian leader’s statement that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may have been orchestrated to bolster the U.S. economy and “save the Zionist regime,” Obama told BBC Persian that “for him to make a statement like that was inexcusable.”
The White House released an excerpt of Obama’s interview.
U.S. and European diplomats walked out of the UN General Assembly hall on Thursday when Ahmadinejad delivered his remarks on the 9/11 attacks.
Envoys representing Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and New Zealand also left the speech as Ahmadinejad spoke about the 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon near Washington.
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