Ahmadinejad Sounds Off
In 2007, amid news that IAEA reports — which had previously stated that Iran had halted its nuclear program in 2003 — were most likely incorrect, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran took the podium to declare the political issue of Iranian nuclear proliferation closed to further discussion. Ahmadinejad called out widespread violation of human rights, terrorism and occupation as some of the major problems facing the international world, railing against "those who pretend to be [victims'] exclusive advocates" as the worst offenders. According to Ahmadinejad, these unnamed nations — fairly obviously the U.S. and its allies — were guilty of "setting up secret prisons, abducting persons [and conducting] trials and secret punishments without any regard to due process."