Report: Group Of Columbia University Students To Dine With Iranian President

September 13, 2011 1:16 PM

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A group of Columbia University students are expected to have dinner with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad next week in Midtown.

According to the Columbia Spectator, the school’s newspaper, as many as 15 members of the Columbia International Relations Council and Association were invited.

CIRCA vice president of academics, Tim Chan, told the paper the Sept. 21 meeting is still tentative and none of the members expressed any reservations about breaking bread with the controversial Iranian leader.

Meanwhile, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, two American hikers jailed for over two years in Iran on espionage charges, could be freed “in a couple of days.”

An Iranian court has set bail at $500,000 for each of the men — the same arrangement that allowed fellow hiker Sara Shourd to go free a year ago.

The hikers all deny the charges and say they may have mistakenly crossed into Iran while hiking in Iraq’s Kurdish region.

On NBC’s ‘Today’ Show, Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he hopes the release will improve relations with the U.S.

There’s speculation that Iran may have timed the potential release to coincide with Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York later this month for the United Nations General Assembly. Shourd was released last year just as Ahmadinejad made his way over for the annual gathering.

Ahmadinejad’s previous visits for the UN General Assembly have been the source of much controversy and sparked a number of protests.

During last year’s visit, he claimed that the United States was behind the 9/11 attacks.

“Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attacks to reverse the declining economy and its grips on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime,” Ahmadinejad said.

President Barack Obama responded by saying, “It was offensive. It was hateful and particularly for him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of ground zero, where families lost their loved, ones was inexcusable.”

In trying to explain his 9/11 theories, Ahmadinejad said his real concern is for the poor American taxpayer, who after the terror attacks has been shelling out billions for the war on terror.

“We are trying to defend the rights of the American people here so their money is not used to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Ahmadinejad said.

Would you invite him over for dinner? What do you make of their invitation? Let Us know know below…

Report: Group Of Columbia University Students To Dine With Iranian President

Sam

Sure, I would invite him over for dinner. I am uncertain what I would serve him though.
FRANK

iran isIN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WILL BE USED IN THE NAME OF THIER GOD TO DESTROY HUMANITY. RUSSIA BEWARE THEY WILLBITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM LIKE A MAD DOG.
Andrew

Lenin had a term for people like these; “Useful Idiots”

Kevin Pearson

Or Obama Voters

diver

This guy gives the word ignorant a bad name. He was installed with a bogus election and the University should not elevate him to their level by any asociation with him.

Jake

Thank God we don’t install presidents in this country, huh.

Obama was the best republican that the elitists in charge had to choose from.

I have lived in 5 different countries in this world each for 5 + year stints… all great countries, but all abound with idiots and hypocrites. Only one claims to be the greatest though.

PV

Why don’t you return permanently to one of the other four. We won’t miss you or even know you’re gone.

kickk

How many Iranian rials has Ahmadinejad spent in the killing of people within and outside Iranian borders? Doesn’t he care about his own taxpayers? What a hypocrite.
KCEddie

Somebody should go up to his hotel room and take a s h i t on his prayer rug. They can tell him Netanyahu stopped by and left him a gift ! LMAO

diver

I would not be so crude as to take a dump on his prayer rug. I’d leave a dead pig there instead!

RFA

I would love the opportunity to break bread with him and then tell him just what a piece of sh.it he truely is.
cat on a hot tin roof

What are they going to serve…sand steaks?

Jeff R.

Camel toes
Purple Heart

Is Jimmy Carter coming?

JakeTaylor

Another way to word the headline:

“Columbia students to share pleasant meal with oppressive murderer who likes killing gay people”

gsdfgs

Another way to word it Jake is Gay
Biff the buffed

Good point.
This man presents the liberals with a conundrum,.
They have chose to support the Anti-American Madman over the “right” to behave gay.
Xaedy

hey. Hitler and Stalin got rid of ‘em. Whats wrong with Irans “president-for-life” doing that? Hes just following his…own..ideas…

Iran_fan

Welcome President Ahmadinejad. Try to ignore the State-apparatchiks who are trying to maintain control of this dying Soviet of Amerikan Socialist States.

jay

Because Iran is thriving?

Pola

The problem is these institutions like Columbia, do not see Evil in fortn ot their eyes, they are twisted goodness is evil and evil is goodness.
They need mental help
macullough

Any world leader is allowed to attend the U.N. That is part of the responsibility of having UN headquarters in NYC.

lensmanct

What a shame that the UN would not move…maybe to Teheran.

http://thecryptojournalist.wordpress.com The Cryptojournalist

Now if only this event were sponsored by Tea Party Express…that would be fun, right?

http://rhymeandreasonable.com

czervik

That made no sense whatsoever.

Jay

I do hope that these students receive a ‘cordial’ return invite to dine with the Iranian President in Tehran. I think that would serve as fair test of their worldview.
michaelfury

“Admiral Cosgriff’s caution was well founded: within a week, the Pentagon acknowledged that it could not positively identify the Iranian boats as the source of the ominous radio transmission, and press reports suggested that it had instead come from a prankster long known for sending fake messages in the region. Nonetheless, Cosgriff’s demeanor angered Cheney, according to the former senior intelligence official. But a lesson was learned in the incident: The public had supported the idea of retaliation, and was even asking why the U.S. didn’t do more. The former official said that, a few weeks later, a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’ he said.”

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/some-stunt/
Mike D

They really love Ahmadinnerjacket at Columbia don’t they??
Lynne Johnson

The sad part to ME is that our nation even ALLOWS this mentally ill man into our nation to sit DOWN with our youth when he is clearly an enemy of America and would imprison any of these young folks he is eating with if they venture into HIS country! What a preverted nation we live in! Freedom and tolerance? Nope…. insanity and sickness!
Hank Warren

This is all about limiting Free Speech. After all, censorship is everywhere. The gov’t (and their big business cronies) censor free speech, shut down dissent and ban the book “America Deceived II”. Free speech for all.
Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

Archy Cary

Nuts.

kitty hogan

They are the new Hanoi Jane Fonda’s of our era…..will they ask about the Americans he holds?
Steve

Maybe him and Ron Paul can have a candle lit dinner.

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT

Was that necessary? a**hole

Joe

Yes, Ron Paul is a treasonous stooge for Islamic imperialism. Hypocrite white trash
RON PAUL 2012

Thats very Jewey of you, after all Larry Silverstein gave the order to pull bldg. #7. He should eat with the Iranian dude first, propably they don’t serve Gevelte Fish and Cottage cheese at Columbia though. And outside of creeps like you, there is the rest of amveica who will vote for Ron Paul thet the Zionist Media aacd creepy money greedy people won’t be able to stop.
Brad

Did you just say “very Jewey of you” ? And you’re the person being ‘offended’ but asking ‘was that necessary’. Wow, you have a lot of nerve. You are lucky to not be in the company of my ‘jewey’ family.
JoeSlaps

to “Ron Paul 2012″

Based on your nazi slander and lies about Silverstein, and your frothing whining about zionist media (which is such BS as virtually NONE of the MSM stands with America and Israel against the jihadis, but I guess even a little is too much for you RP fellators and anal-lingists of terror), “YES, IT WAS NECESSARY.”

Ron Paul supporters are simply the anarcho-drug-taking wing of the Obama crowd.

They HATE JOOS, they want open borders, abortion on demand, more gay marriage, more gays in the military, they hate the Judeo-Christian West and the only disagreement they have with Obama is probably his skin and they want THEIR version of National Socialism.

Ron Paul supporters will tell you, come November 2012, if Paul isn’t the candidate, they are voting Obama, because the one thing they like about Obama is “he stands up to the f*cking Joos”.

Pplrfunny

Can we leave Dr. Paul out of this? It’s bad enough he needs to deal with that zoo of congress…
yep

Way to go Steve…get the Paulistas all spun up.
Rolco

Here Here !

sk

the iranian president is here to enocourage young americacns to be ANTI-AMERICAN! and if you hear what a lot of “liberal” collge students say their views are very unpatritotic, and sympathetic to terrorrist groups. its alittle scary becuase ina few years these collge studensts will be america’s leaders!

Give me a break

and you know what’s good for us Right?

Hazel Burke

They hate America so much they would have served Hitler hasenpfeffer.
TRE

I think we should unlawfully capture A-Jad while he’s in NYC and then demand the proper release of the three hikers in exchange for him. Eye for an eye.

Problem is, the Supreme Commander would probably give a sigh of relief and not want A-Jad back. (And I’m not implying the Supreme Commander is any kind of good.)
andysamberg

They are really dining with Fred Armisen.
Garth

Who in their right mind would sit down with or more importantly listen to anything that this psycho has to say ?? We have not had any diplomatic relations with Iran, since the late 80′s, so why are we even allowing this sociopath on American soil ?? Nothing in that country will ever change, and if he were to pass, there is another one behind him to take his place. Lets spend more money that we can ill afford for additional security for this bottom feeder,and make travel in NYC even tougher while he is in town. I say video conference with these students if he has to have any contact with them at all. And you might wonder about these students as well….

Alfred Hussein Neuman

These students are “open minded” and probably thrilled to to dine with him. I would wager no one brings up the executions, limited press, intolerance of gays, etc. But suggest having a conservative on campus or a Jewish leader, and the students will protest and refuse dinner.

Dave

To expect liberals to support Jews and not kiss the ass of a dictator/american hater/jew hater is like asking “Ron Paul For President” to wipe his butt by himself.

This is what the liberal elite are all about. Study their history, watch them closely over the last 10 years and who they support/condemn. They are a disgusting group of psychos who have just as much hate in their hearts as the people they condemn. They are as full of baloney as the extreme right wingers of the 90′s who condemned Clinton but were found to have affairs. They are all garbage.

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