And the American media gives him a free pass about his genocidal statements regarding Israel, and the statements by other Iranian leaders threatening to construct nuclear weapons. From DPA:
New York – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced the United States and Britain late Tuesday as ‘hegemonic powers’ undermining the UN Security Council’s credibility and effectiveness.
The much-anticipated address by the Iranian leader to the United Nations General Assembly offered no solutions to the dispute over his country’s nuclear activities. Instead, Ahmadinejad blasted United States for waging the war in Iraq and Israel for occupying Palestinian territories.
He said that no organization in the UN can resist the will of the US and Britain, two of the five Security Council permanent members, along with Russia, France and China.
‘Regrettably, the persistence of some hegemonic powers in imposing their exclusionist policies on international decision-making mechanisms, including the Security Council, has resulted in a growing mistrust in global public opinion, undermining the credibility and effectiveness of this most universal system of collective security,’ he said.
As long as the Security Council is unable to act on behalf of the international community, it ‘will never be legitimate nor effective,’ Ahmadinejad said.
His country’s nuclear activities are ‘transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eyes of IAEA inspectors.’ He charged that the governments objecting to Iran’s nuclear programme are themselves benefiting from nuclear energy.
‘Some of them have abused nuclear technology for non-peaceful ends including the production of nuclear bombs, and some even have a bleak record of using them against humanity,’ he said.