NY Welcomes Ahmadinejad... With Protests

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is getting a rousing welcome to the Big Apple this week, but not in a nice way: Several of New York's top politicians are protesting Ahmadinejad's regime while he attends a UN General Assembly meeting, reports the AP. Among them, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and David Paterson, who denounces the Iranian leader as "divisive."

Ahmadinejad, the New York Post notes, said, among other things, in his response:
"Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless." He's due to speak at the UN this week. Stay tuned.
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