Quakers won't host Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad always receives an angry welcome during his trips to New York for U.N. General Assembly meetings. But he can usually count on at least one peaceful public event: He regularly attends events organized by the Quakers and the Mennonites. The groups use the meetings to push for dialogue with Iran.

This year, though, as Eli Lake reports in the Washington Times, even the Quakers are snubbing Ahmadinejad.

"We decided this year, we are not going engage with him in a big public meeting in New York as we have in the past," Joe Volk, executive secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, told The Washington Times. "Right now, Americans meddling in the postelection situation will not be helpful. And so it is best for Americans to let the dust settle on the elections before we engage."

It will be an interesting week in New York, to say the least. The meeting starts on Wednesday and runs through Sept. 30.