UNITED NATIONS - Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel urged the United Nations on Monday to indict Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide rather than allow him to speak at the U.N. General Assembly.
Wiesel spoke to thousands of people at a rally to urge world leaders to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons -- something Tehran denies it is trying to do, but which Western powers suspect is the true aim of its nuclear program.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner said Ahmadinejad, who has said Israel should be wiped off the map, should be indicted for "propagating genocidal policies."
"He's not Hitler, nobody is Hitler, but he wishes to follow in Hitler's footsteps and that makes him an arch criminal," Wiesel said, urging world leaders to leave the hall when Ahmadinejad speaks at the General Assembly on Tuesday.
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is a threat to world peace and he should not be here in New York. His place is in ... a United Nations prison cell," Wiesel said. Read more ...
Wiesel spoke to thousands of people at a rally to urge world leaders to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons -- something Tehran denies it is trying to do, but which Western powers suspect is the true aim of its nuclear program.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner said Ahmadinejad, who has said Israel should be wiped off the map, should be indicted for "propagating genocidal policies."
"He's not Hitler, nobody is Hitler, but he wishes to follow in Hitler's footsteps and that makes him an arch criminal," Wiesel said, urging world leaders to leave the hall when Ahmadinejad speaks at the General Assembly on Tuesday.
"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is a threat to world peace and he should not be here in New York. His place is in ... a United Nations prison cell," Wiesel said. Read more ...
Source: Reuters
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