Iranian Elections

The Ahmadinejad-Obama debates?

Gregg Carlstrom | July 5, 2009 10:59 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Move over, Lincoln-Douglas. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants a one-on-one live debate with Barack Obama:

Addressing Iranian heads of medical universities on Saturday, President Ahmadinejad offered to debate President Obama at the United Nations headquarters in New York before the eyes of all nations of the world.

I wouldn't read too much into this. Ahmadinejad knows Obama won't accept the offer -- so it's just blustery rhetoric, a confrontational way of offering "engagement" with the West.

You'll recall Ahmadinejad made a similar challenge to George W. Bush in 2006; sadly, the world never got to see those two wise statesmen match wits.

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