{"id":1937,"date":"2007-09-25T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2007-09-25T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T17:54:39","slug":"ahmadinejads-new-york-visit-stirs-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/09\/25\/ahmadinejads-new-york-visit-stirs-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad&#8217;s New York Visit Stirs Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest092507\/2007_09_25_zunes.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest092507\/2007_09_25_uprising.mp3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/img\/2007\/09\/24\/amd_mahmoudahmadinejad_3.jpg\"\/><em> GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Middle East Editor for Foreign Policy in Focus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amid protests yesterday afternoon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the campus of Colombia University. Being introduced by university president Lee Bollinger as a leader who has behaved liked a \u201cpetty and cruel dictator,\u201d Ahmadinejad spoke to various issues. In his address he defended his nation\u2019s right to pursue peaceful nuclear technology while denouncing the abuse of Palestinian peoples. The Iranian President visit to New York this week for the United Nation\u2019s General Assembly has garnered much media attention. Much of the focus surrounding Ahmadinejad\u2019s visit centered on his request to visit ground zero as well as his speaking engagement yesterday at Colombia University. The Iranian president\u2019s request to visit ground zero was ultimately not honored as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that doing so would have been a \u201ctravesty.\u201d John Leinun of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows said of Ahmadinejad\u2019s request that \u201cif he really wanted to go lay a wreath, let him lay a wreath. I would object to him, as we\u2019ve objected to any political figure, using it for a political statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Middle East Editor for Foreign Policy in Focus Amid protests yesterday afternoon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the campus of Colombia University. Being introduced by university president Lee Bollinger as a leader who has behaved liked a \u201cpetty and cruel dictator,\u201d Ahmadinejad spoke to various issues. In his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}