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Iran's Khatami to Speak on Ethics at Harvard
As the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks draws near, Harvard University has decided to mark the occasion by hosting Mohammed Khatami, the former president of Iran – a nation that’s engaged in a terrorist war against the United States. Khatami agreed to speak on September 10 at the university’s John F. Kennedy School of Government on, of all things, "Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.”
As the New York Sun points out in an editorial, the title of the address "insults the intelligence of all those who would attend.
"What in the world is a man who presided over the July 9, 1999, crackdown on Tehran University, where hundreds of students were arrested and tortured, doing speaking about ‘tolerance’ at a university?”
In the past, Khatami has claimed that Israel controls American foreign policy and accused Israel of being a "racist, terrorist regime.”
Story Continues Below In his first public appearance during a nearly two-week visit to the U.S., Khatami over the weekend claimed that U.S. policies trigger terrorism.
"As American claims to be fighting terrorism, it implements policies that cause the intensification of terrorism and institutionalized violence,” he said at the Islamic Society of North America’s 43rd annual convention in Chicago.
During an earlier visit to Japan, Khatami maintained that the West has nothing to fear from Iran’s nuclear program. A professor at the Kennedy School, former academic dean Stephen Walt, echoed that view when he wrote that the U.S. "can live with a nuclear Iran” – even though the nation’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that Israel should be wiped off the map. Calling Khatami an "enemy representative” and his invitation to speak at Harvard a "tragedy,” the Sun editorial stated: "What a disgusting way for Harvard to mark the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of a war that has claimed thousands of American lives and is still in full tilt.”
© 2006 Associated Press.
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