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Walter Isaacson argued cogently for dialogue with Iran about stabilizing Iraq and then sabotaged his valid arguments by name calling [Dec. 4]. Does it promote fruitful dialogue to call Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "mad" and declare that he sounds "like a lunatic"? Has Ahmadinejad done anything remotely as mad and lunatic as invading and occupying Iraq or bombing Lebanon? Demonizing and name calling are what have got us into this horrific mess in the Middle East. CARL J. EKBERG Purgitsville, W.Va...
...same week that Iran hosted a conference of Holocaust-deniers and its President, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, warned that Israel will wind up like the Soviet Union in the scrap heap of history, a European Union Court ruled that a fiercely dedicated armed group that opposes his regime had been unfairly placed on the E.U.'s official list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations, although much to Tehran's chagrin, the U.S. did not hand over the group's fighters when it took control of their main base...
...Wednesday evening I sat down with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a 75-minute interview - TIME's second with the controversial leader in just the past three months. Ahmadinejad was as spirited as ever - answering questions with questions ("Do you not believe in God?"), correcting the interpreter's translations (he understands some English but prefers not to speak it) and laughing when he felt he had scored a rhetorical point...
...bringing together a macabre assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen and other right-wing cranks - many of whom would be just as keen to rid Europe of Muslims as the Nazis were to empty the continent of its Jewish population - in Tehran this week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeks to deny or diminish the reality of the Holocaust. And while that may seem like just another slap in the face of the West, to the extent that anyone in the Arab world takes him seriously, the Iranian president is also doing them a profound disservice...
...Ahmadinejad is hardly the first voice in the Middle East to question the basic facts of the Holocaust - even the moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas wrote a Ph.D thesis in the early 1980s in which he claimed that the number of Jews killed by the Nazis was less than 1 million, and that it had been inflated by the Zionist movement to win international sympathy. (Abbas later denied diminishing the Holocaust, which he denounced as "a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity...