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“In Iran, we do not have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon,” said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his Sept. 24 speech at Columbia University.

Prior to imparting his stance on homosexuality in Iran, the leader was given a warm 20-minute welcome by his host, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, in which Bollinger called the leader of Iran “illiterate,” “evil,” and basically unworthy of being present at the symposium.

“Today, I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning to express revulsion at what you stand for,” Bollinger said to his guest.

Though Bollinger managed to hoard most of the speech time allocated to...

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