Stinky man: "love, purity, and the elimination of Israel!".The Rosett Report » In the Shadow of Ahmadinejad’s Hotel
By Claudia Rosett On September 27, 2012
... Following his remarks earlier in the week that Israel will be “eliminated,” Ahmadinejad delivered a speech [1] Wednesday morning to the United Nations General Assembly in which he put us all on notice, yet again, that what he’s after is — as he defines it — the perfection of man. He went into some detail on how his audience could work with Iran to hasten the arrival of an era of “justice, love and empathy” in which “hearts will be filled with love and thoughts will be purified to be at the service of security, welfare and happiness for all.”
Unfortunately, these are not the ravings of a solo fool. Ahmadinejad comes to the UN as the voice of the Tehran regime. In the event that anyone might dissent from that regime’s agenda for love, purity, and the elimination of Israel, Iran runs terror networks around the world, and for a bit of backup is constructing a handy nuclear arsenal. That’s why Iran is under UN and U.S. sanctions — none of which have stopped Iran’s nuclear program, ended its atrocities at home, shut down its terrorist dealings abroad, or even prevented Ahmadinejad and his massive entourage from visiting Manhattan. It is evidently no bar to Ahmadinejad’s visiting, that just a year ago U.S. authorities uncovered an alleged plot, conceived and funded, as the State Department puts it [2], by “elements of the Iranian regime,” to bomb the Saudi ambassador in Washington. Nor was there any move by U.S. authorities to kick out Ahmadinejad posthaste, when he was asked by reporters earlier this week if Iran had formally lifted its 1980s religious decree calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie, and — as reported by the Wall Street Journal — Ahmadinejad gave the menacing reply: “Is he in the U.S.? You shouldn’t broadcast this for his own safety.”
With all that in mind, being in Manhattan myself at the moment, I took a stroll Wednesday evening to where Ahmadinejad is staying, in midtown, at the Warwick Hotel. U.S.-provided (and funded) security was tight when he stayed there last year. It is tighter now. In 2011, PJ Media’s Roger Simon and I were allowed to walk through the hotel lobby, and have a drink at the bar. This season, only hotel guests are allowed past the metal barriers and onto the premises.
Indeed, American authorities are providing far greater security for Ahmadinejad in Manhattan than it appears was provided for America’s own ambassador and diplomatic staff at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were murdered on Sept. 11 in what the Obama administration is belatedly admitting was a terrorist attack. ...
Where is this all going? Usually I like strolling down Sixth Avenue on a warm evening in early autumn. Wednesday night, when I left the area of the Warwick Hotel, I was full of unease. I had the sense of looking in on an unnerving sliver of history — a UN gathering where the most memorable act of America’s president was to hand out White House gift souvenirs on daytime TV, while Iran’s messenger dispensed threats from the heart of Manhattan. It feels like a time of growing shadows. Churchill had a phrase for it: the gathering storm.
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[1] delivered a speech: http://gadebate.un.org/sites/default/files/gastatements/67/IR_en.pdf
[2] State Department puts it: http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/crt/2011/195547.htm
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