According to the perspicacious Anne Bayevsky, who (along with Claudia Rosett) covers the UN as well as anyone, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be attending the Durban Review Conference in Geneva April 20-24. Since I’m going to be there, covering the event for PJTV, what should I ask him (if perchance I get the opportunity)? Whether he’d like to amend or extend his statement that there are no homosexuals in Iran? Or how about whether he is planning another Holocaust denial art show? I solicit other questions. But remember: be respectful. This is a UN Human Rights conference.
You could take the shrink approach:
Netanyahu has stated that if the U.S. fails to act, then he will come to break your toys. How does that make you feel?
How about a basketball question?
Jump ball, you and Tom Cruise…who gets the tip?
ask him about his family and where in Iran they are from.
Ask him how he intends to avoid killing Palestines if he uses Nuclear weapons against Israel?
How about: Dummy says ‘what?’
Ask him if, since there was no Holocaust, and he wants Israel destroyed, if he’s planning on creating a Holocaust.
No matter what the question is, the guy will immediately try to outspin his centrifuges. Here is a softball in case you need one: Do you consider the destruction of Israel a peaceful use of nuclear energy?
Great Opportunity ,
Get him to commit to his concept of the ideal
future of the middle east , even though it’s
predictable .
Good Luck
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My serious suggestion would be any question that highlights Iran’s idea of “human rights.”
You could ask about the torture and execution of hundreds of political prisoners each year, http://www.iranrights.org/english/newsletter.php , the highest rate per capita in the entire world.
You could also scroll this blog, http://iran-human-rights.blogspot.com/ , and pick any individual heartbreaking story from the endless list of the dead. The variety and scope of the barbarism is sickening. Giving voice to the victims and their families in front of the world media would be a worthy use of your opportunity, Roger.
How about asking his opinion on the fatwa that says its okay for an Muslim male to have sex with an animal, provided he marry it first.
I notice the unemployed trolls don’t invade and post when Roger asks a serious question.
“I lose my respect for the Leftist who can make the mystery of Human Rights the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent”
Seriously, I’d ask him what he wants Iran to look like in twenty years. Then I’d stand back and give him all the time he wants.
I’m still waiting to learn why destroying little Israel, located an ocean of sand away from his borders, figures so largely in Iran’s domestic planning.
I’d ask him why he hasn’t followed Islam’s commandment and killed himself in a suicide attack on the infidels.
I’d ask him if he thinks human rights are universal regardless of race, religion and sex.
Since Israel is the world’s only true human rights violator, will there still be a need for a Human Rights Commission after he nukes Israel? If so, what does he think the human rights challenges in a post-Hebrew world will look like.
While you’re doing this, hold up a star of David, smile and repeat “Juden”
Ask him to identify the moment in history when the mighty Zoroastrian Persians, whose ancient art and culture so deeply informed that of ancient Greeks and in turn, Western civilization, degenerated into wannabe Arabs and Muslim suckups.
Ask him how he feels when the Arabs, who have contributed nothing to the world but misery, take credit for the important contributions of Persian civilization to human knowledge.
Ask him why his hatred is focused on the Jews, who have done no harm to Persia ancient or modern, rather than at the Arabs who have raped Persian civilization and utterly perverted Persian culture.
My personal recommendation is to skip Durban and hit Port Elizabeth and Capetown and tour the country. SA is spectacuar — the Karoo resembles the Colorado Plateau, there are game parks galoore, and the wines are great. Also be careful–from what I hear the crime rate is apalling.
Ask him if Obama is the 12th Iman.
Excellent question,Micheal…notice that it is always gray headed SOBs like Khameini who exhort teenagers to go out and “martyr” themselves,and that old bastard will die in bed…heh.As for Ahmagenocide,Roger,ask him why he can’t shave and put on a nice tie…
I would ask him this:
If we don’t like your behavior, your actions, your words and we possess the ability to simply annihilate you at our whim, at any moment, on any day of our choosing, what do you believe keeps us from doing so?
Whatever your answer is, when you are finished Mr. President of Iran…stop and think for a moment …and imagine yourself posing that very question, in those very words… to Israel.
And finally, Mr. President of Iran, when you are finished posing that question to Israel, if you would be so kind……go back again and revisit my original question.
Make a pass at him.
You’re not going to get any useful information out of him anyway, might as well have some fun.
When I was in Egypt, I noticed that pious Muslims carry a mark on the forehead, a sort of dark callous, from pressing their head on the prayer rug five times a day. You might ask the president why so few in the Iranian leadership lack this physical mark that would attest to their piety.