President Ahmadinejad Calls for ‘Slave Masters’ to Pay Reparations

 

Islamic Republic of  IR AN

Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Address by

H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Before the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly

New York

September 23

2011

 

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Mr.

 

President,

Excellencies,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

I am grateful to the Almighty Allah who granted me, once more, the

opportunity to appear before this world assembly. I have the pleasure to express my

 sincere thanks to H.E. Joseph Deiss, president of the sixty-fifth session for his 

tremendous efforts during his tenure. I also would like to congratulate H.E Nassir 

Abdulaziz AI-Nasser on his election as the president of sixty-sixth session of the 

General Assembly and wish him all success.

 

Let me seize the moment to pay tribute to all those who lost their lives in the 

past year, particularly to the victims of the tragic famine in Somalia and the 

devastating flood in Pakistan and especially the earthquake and the ensuing

 explosions in the nuclear power plant in Japan. I urge everyone to intensify their

assistance and aid to the affected populations in these countries.

 

Over the past years, I spoke about different global issues, and the need to 

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Today, considering the international developments, I will try to analyze the 

present situation from a different angle.

 

As you all know the dominance and superiority of human beings over other 

creatures, lie in the very nature and the truth of humankind which is a divine 

gift and a manifestation of the divine spirit including: 

faith in God, who is the ever-lasting creator and planner of the entire universe. 

Showing compassion to others, generosity, justice-seeking, and having 

integrity both in words and in deeds.

 

The quest for dignity to reach the pinnacles of perfection, the aspiration to 

elevate one’s material and spiritual status, and the longing to realize liberty; 

Defying oppression, corruption, and discrimination in trying to support the 

oppressed;

 

Seeking happiness, and lasting prosperity and security for all; 

These are some of the manifestations of common divine and human attributes 

which can clearly be seen in the historical aspirations of human beings as

 

reflected in the heritage of our search for

art and literary works both in prose

and poetry, and in the socio-cultural and political movements of human beings

 

in the course of history;

 

All divine prophets and social reformers invited human beings to tread on this

 

righteous path;

 

God has given dignity to humankind to elevate his status to assume his

 

successor role on Earth;

 

Dear Colleagues and friends;

 

It

 

is vividly clear that despite all historical achievements, including creation of

the United-Nations, which was a product of untiring struggles and efforts of

free-minded and justice-seeking individuals as well as the international

cooperation, human societies are yet far from fulfilling their noble desires and

aspirations;

Most nations of the world are unhappy with the current international

circumstances;

 

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And despite the general longing and aspiration to promote peace, progress, and 

fraternity, wars, mass-murder, widespread poverty, and socioeconomic and 

political crises continue to infringe upon the rights and sovereignty of nations, 

leaving behind irreparable damage worldwide;

 

Approximately, three billion people of the world live on less than 2.5 dollars a 

day, and over a billion people live without having even one sufficient meal on 

a daily basis;

 

Forty-percent of the poorest world populations only share five percent of the 

global income, while twenty percent of the richest people share seventy-five 

percent of the total global income.

 

More than twenty thousand innocent and destitute children die every day in 

the world because of poverty.

 

In the United States, eighty percent of financial resources are controlled by ten 

percent of its population, while only twenty percent of these resources belong 

to the ninety percent of the population.

 

What are the causes and reasons behind these inequalities? How can bone 

remedy such injustice?

 

The rulers of the global management circles divide the social life from ethics 

and spirituality while claiming the situation is the outcome of the pursuit of the 

path of divine prophets or the vulnerability of nations or the ill performance of 

a few groups or individuals. They claim that only their views and approaches 

can save the human society.

 

Dear Colleagues and friends; 

Wouldn’t you think that the root cause of the problems must be sought in the 

prevailing international order, or the way the world is governed? 

I would like to draw your kind attention to the following questions: 

Who abducted forcefully tens of millions of people from their homes in 

Africa and other regions of the world during the dark period of slavery , 

making them a victim of their materialistic greed.

 

Who imposed colonialism for over four centuries upon this world. Who 

occupied lands and massively plundered resources of other nations, destroyed 

talents, and alienated languages, cultures and identities of nations?

 

Who triggered the first and second world wars, that left seventy millions killed 

and hundreds of millions injured or homeless. Who created the wars in Korean 

peninsula and in Vietnam?

 

Who imposed, through deceits and hypocrisy, the Zionism and over sixty 

years of war, homelessness, terror and mass murder on the Palestinian people 

and on countries of the region?

 

Who imposed and supported for decades military dictatorship and totalitarian 

regimes on Asian, African, and Latin American nations.

 

Who used nuclear bomb against defenseless people, and stockpiled thousands 

of warheads in their arsenals?

 

Whose economies rely on waging wars and selling arms? 

Who provoked and encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade and impose an 

eight-year war on Iran, and who assisted and equipped him to deploy chemical 

weapons against our cities and our people.

 

Who used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack 

Afghanistan and Iraq , killing, injuring, and displacing millions in two 

countries with the ultimate goal of bringing into its domination the Middle 

East and its oil resources?

 

Who nullified the Breton Woods system by printing trillions of dollars without 

the backing of gold reserves or equivalent currency? A move that triggered 

inflation worldwide and was intended to prey on the economic gains of other 

nations.

 

Which country’s military spending exceeds annually a thousand billion

dollars, more than the military budgets of all countries of the world combined? 

Which governments are the most indebted ones in the world?

 

Who dominates the policy-making establishments of the world economy? 

Who are responsible for the world economic recession, and are imposing the 

consequences on America, Europe and the world in general?

 

Which governments are always ready to drop thousands of bombs on other

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 countries but  ponder and hesitate to provide aid to famine-stricken people in 

Somalia or in other places?

 

Who are the ones dominating the Security Council which is ostensibly 

responsible for safeguarding the international security?

 

There exist tens of other similar questions. Of course, the answers are clear. 

The majority of nations and governments of the world have had no role in the 

creation of the current global crises, and as a matter of fact, they were 

themselves the victims of such policies.

 

It is as lucid as daylight that the same slave masters and colonial powers that 

once instigated the two world wars have caused widespread misery and 

disorder with far-reaching effects across the globe since then.

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends; 

Do these arrogant powers really have the competence and ability to run or 

govern the world. Is it acceptable that they call themselves the sole defender of 

freedom, democracy, and human rights, while they militarily attack and 

occupy other countries?

 

Can the flower of democracy blossom from NATO’s missiles, bombs and 

guns?

 

Ladies and Gentlemen; 

If some European countries still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the 

excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists, should it not be an obligation 

upon the slave masters or colonial powers to pay reparations to the affected 

nations?

 

If the damage and losses of the period of slavery and colonialism were indeed 

compensated, what would happen to the manipulators and behind-the-scene 

political powers in the United States and in Europe? Would there remain any 

gaps between the North and the South?

 

If only half of military expenditures of the United States and its allies in 

NATO was shifted to help solve the economic problems in their own-countriues would they be  witnessing any symptom of the economic crisis? 

What would happen, if the same amount was allocated to poor nations? 

What is the justification for the presence of hundreds of US military and 

intelligence bases in different parts of the world, including 268 bases in 

Germany, 124 in Japan, 87 in South Korea, 83 in Italy, 45 in the UnitedKingdom, 

and 21 in Portugal? Does this mean anything other than military 

occupation?

 

Don’t the bombs deployed in the said bases undermine the security of other 

nations?

 

Ladies and Gentlemen;

 

The main question is the quest for the root cause of such attitudes. 

The prime reason should be sought in the beliefs and tendencies of the 

establishment.

 

An assembly of people in contradiction with the inner human instincts and 

disposition who also have no faith in God and in the path of the divine 

prophets, replace their lust for power and materialistic ends with heavenly 

values.

 

To them, only power and wealth prevail, and every attempt must bring into 

focus these sinister goals.

 

Oppressed nations have no hope to restore or protect their legitimate rights 

against these powers.

 

These powers seek their progress, prosperity and dignity through imposing 

poverty, humiliation and annihilation to others.

 

They consider themselves superior to others, enjoying special privileges and 

concessions. They have no respect for others and easily violate the rights of  

all nations and govermnents.

 

They proclaim themselves as the indisputable custodians of all govermnents 

and nations through intimidation, recourse to threat and force, and abuse the 

international mechanisms. They simply break all the internationally 

recognized regulations.

 

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They insist on imposing their lifestyle and beliefs on others. 

They officially support racism. 

They weaken countries through military intervention, and destroy their 

infrastructures, in order to plunder their resources by making them all the more 

dependent.

 

They sow the seeds of hate and hostility among nations and people of different 

pursuits, in order to prevent them from fulfilling their goals of development 

and progress.

 

All cultures, identities, lives, values and wealth of nations, women, youth, 

families as well as the wealth of nations are sacrificed to their imperialistic 

tendencies and their inclination to enslave and captivate others.

 

Hypocrisy and deceit are allowed in order to secure their interests and 

imperialistic goals. Drug- trafficking and killing of innocent human beings are 

also allowed in pursuit of such diabolic goals. Despite NATO’s presence in the 

occupied Afghanistan, there has been a dramatic increase in the production of 

illicit drugs there.

 

They tolerate no question or criticism, and instead of presenting a reason for

 

their violations, they always put themselves in the position of a claimant.

 

By using their imperialistic media network which is under the influence of

 

colonialism they threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the

 

September 11 event with sanctions and military action.

 

Last year, when the need to form a fact-finding team to undertake a thorough

 

investigation concerning the hidden elements involved in September 11

 

incident was brought up; an idea also endorsed by all independent

 

governments and nations as well as by the majority in the United States, my

 

country and myself came under pressure and threat by the government of the

 

United States.

 

Instead of assigning a fact-finding team, they killed the main perpetrator and

 

threw his body into the sea.

 

Would it not have been reasonable to bring to justice and openly bring to trial

 

the main perpetrator of the incident in order to identifY the elements behind the

 

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safe space provided for the invading aircraft to attack the twin world trade

 

towers?

 

Why should it not have been allowed to bring him to trial to help recognize

 

those who launched terrorist groups and brought wars and other miseries into

 

the region?

 

Is there any classified information that must be kept secret?

 They view Zionism as a sacred notion and ideology. Any question concerning 

its very foundation and history is condemned by them as an unforgivable sin. 

However they endorse and allow sacrileges and insult against beliefs of other 

divine religions.

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends; 

Real freedom, justice” dignity, well being, and lasting security are the rights 

of all nations.

 

These values can neither be achieved by reliance on the current inefficient 

system of world governance, nor through the invasion of the world by arrogant 

powers and the gun barrels of NATO forces.

 

These values could only be realized through independence and recognition of 

others’ rights and through harmony and cooperation.

 

Is there any way to address the problems and challenges besetting the world by 

using the prevailing international mechanisms and tools to help humanity 

achieve the long-standing aspiration of peace, security and equality?

 

All those who tried to introduce reforms whilst preserving the existing norms 

and tendencies have failed. The valuable efforts made by the Non-Aligned 

movement and Group 77 and GrouplS as well as by some prominent 

individuals have failed to bring fundamental changes.

 

Governance and management of the world require fundamental reforms. 

What should be done now?

 

Dear Colleagnes and Friends; 

Efforts must be made with a firm resolve and through collective cooperation to

map out a new plan, on the basis of principles and the very foundation of 

universal human values such as Monotheism, justice, freedom, love and the 

quest for happiness.

 

The idea of creation of the United Nations remains a great and historical 

achievement of mankind. Its importance must be appreciated and its capacities 

must be used to the extent possible for our noble goals.

 

We should not allow this organization which is the reflection of the collective 

will and shared aspiration of the community of nations, to deviate from its 

main course and play into the hands of the world powers.

 

Conducive ground must be prepared to ensure collective participation and 

involvement of nations in an effort to promote lasting peace and security. 

Shared and collective management of the world must be achieved in its true 

sense, and based on the underlying principles enshrined in the international 

law. Justice must serve as the criterion and the basis for all international 

decisions and actions.

 

- All of us should acknowledge the fact that there is no other way than the shared

and collective management of the world

in order to put an end to the present

disorders, tyrarmy, and discriminations worldwide.

 

This is indeed the sole way to prosperity and welfare of human society which

 

is an established and vivid truth.

 

While acknowledging the above truth, one should note that acknowledgement

 

alone is not enough. We must believe in

it and spare no effort toward its

realization.

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends;

 

Shared and collective management of the world is the legitimate right of all 

nations, and we as their representatives, have an obligation to defend their 

rights. Although some powers continuously try to frustrate all international 

efforts aimed at promoting collective cooperation, we must, however, 

strengthen our belief in achieving the perceived goal of establishing a shared 

and collective cooperation to run the world.

 

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The United Nations was created to make effective participation of all nations 

in international decision-making processes, possible. 

We all know that this goal has not yet been fulfilled because of the absence of 

justice in the current management structures and mechanisms of the UN. 

The composition of the Security Council is unjust and inequitable. Therefore, 

changes including the restructuring of the United Nations are considered the 

basic demands of the nations that must be addressed by the General 

Assembly.

 

During last year session, I emphasized the importance of this issue and called 

for the designation of the current decade as the decade of shared and collective 

Global Management.

 

I would like to reiterate again my proposal. I am sure that through 

international cooperation, diligence and efforts by committed world leaders 

and governments and through insisting on the realization of justice and the 

support of all other nations, we can expedite the building of a common bright 

future.

 

This movement is certainly on its rightful path of creation, ensuring a

promising future for humanity.

 

A future that will be built when humanity initiates to trend the path of the 

divine prophets and the righteous under the leadership of Imam al-Mahdi, the 

Ultimate Savior of mankind and the inheritor to all divine messengers and 

leaders and to the pure generation of our great Prophet.

 

The creation of a supreme and ideal society with the arrival of a perfect human 

being who is a true and sincere lover of all human beings, is the guaranteed 

promise of Allah.

 

He will come alongside with Jesus Christ to lead the freedom and justice 

lovers to eradicate tyranny and discrimination, and promote knowledge, peace, 

justice freedom and love across the world. He will present to every single 

individual all the beauties of the world and all good things which bring 

happiness for humankind.

 

Today nations have been awakened. With the increase in public awareness 

they no longer succumb to oppressions and discriminations.

 

The world is now witnessing more than ever, the widespread awakening in 

Islamic lands, in Asia, Europe, and America. These movements are ever 

expanding their spirit everyday and influence the pursuit of the realization of 

justice, freedom and the creation of a better tomorrow.

 

Our great nation stands ready to join hands with other nations to march on this 

beautiful path in harmony and in line with the shared aspirations of mankind.

 

Let us salute love, freedom, justice, wisdom, and the bright future that awaits 

humankind.

 

Thank you.

 

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