[Al Arabiya Latest] Western leaders recoiled in horror Monday at a fierce anti-Israel speech by Iran's president at a U.N. conference on racism, as the Czech Republic joined a growing boycott of the week-long gathering.
As Washington denounced the Islamic Republic's "hateful rhetoric," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon effectively said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had betrayed his trust.
The Iranian leader used his podium in Geneva to criticize the creation of a "totally racist government in occupied Palestine" in 1948, calling the Israeli administration "the most cruel and repressive racist regime." |