Iranian president supports 7/11 terrorist attack conspiracy theories

The CNN Wire Staff brings us the article, “U.N. delegates walk out during Iranian president's speech”, that tell about how Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, tells the U.N General assembly about how he believes that the American 7/11 terrorist attack conspiracy theories are true. “Some segments within the U.S government orchestrated the attacks”, Ahmadinejad told the general assembly. He followed the claim that the attacks were aimed at reversing “the declining American economy and its scripts on the Middle East in order to save the Zionist regime. The majority of the American people, as well as most nations and politicians around the world, agree with this view." He also touched on the incident where the Florida pastor threatened to burn the Quran, and he also included a defense for Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

When I first read this article I tried my best to get angry about these accusations; to find some form of nationalism in me, but I just couldn’t because I can understand why he might make such accusations. I can understand why he would because he has seen the suffering off these two neighboring countries and has probably seen his own country suffer economically as a result. I can also see how he might be angry at how the Florida pastor threatened to burn the Quran because that seems to be claiming that Christianity is the true religion, and in that claim insult the people who this war has hurt so much. As for the nuclear ambitions; it doesn’t surprise me that they would want that; after all countries with nuclear power are generally left alone unless there is a serious threat from that country. I have only two questions for this article? Will someone like the pastor do something reckless like actually burn the Quran? My second question is what actually will it take to make the tension that seems so heavy right now explode into violence; if it does?