United Nations, Sept. 24: In a remark that sparked outrage in the United States, Iranian President, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has said that some segments within the US government orchestrated the 9/11 attack to reverse the declining American economy.
The Iranian President told a UN meeting that most people believe that the US government staged the 9/11 attacks.
There was a theory that “some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the West Asia, in order also to save the Zionist regime,” Mr Ahmadinejad said, sparking a US-led Western walkout in the UN General Assembly.
Mr Ahmadinejad then urged the UN to carry out an investigation that would determine what happened on 9/11.
“It is proposed that the United Nations set up an independent fact-finding group for the event of September 11,” he said on Thursday.
He also accused the US for using 9/11 to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as bullying Iran about its nuclear programme while maintaining it own nuclear weapons.
The Iranian President, however, indicated that Tehran would be ready for talks on its nuclear programme if they were premised on “justice and respect.”
Issuing a statement, the US Mission spokesman, Mr Mark Kornblau, said, “Rather than representing the aspirations of the Iranian people Mr Ahmadinejad has yet again chosen to spout vile conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic slurs.”