United Stated President Barack Obama has denounced comments made by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the UN General Assembly, where he claimed that most people believe that the US Government was behind the attacks of 9/11.
An artist's conception of US-Iran relations.
President Ahmadinejad’s speech is widely credited with having caused an angry walkout at the UN assembly, during which he suggested that the US Government could have “orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime”. The “Zionist regime” is Ahmadinejad’s term of endearment for the Israeli government.
President Obama today described those comments as “hateful”, “offensive”, and “inexcusable”, in a statement that is unlikely to improve relations between the two nations, who are currently at odds over Tehran’s “uranium enrichment programme”, which the US government believes to be code for “top secret atomic weapon enrichment programme”.
Although Mr Ahmadinejad is not the first to question the US government’s involvement in the 9/11 attacks, he is the most high profile thus far. There is no concrete evidence suggesting an ‘inside job’, however, and most have dismissed the idea as being too clever for the government to pull off.
Source: BBC
