Columbia professors plan to visit Iran to apologize to Ahmadinejad :: Mehr News
An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting remarks Columbia University President Lee Bollinger directed at Ahmadinejad on September 24 in his introductory speech, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in New York reported.
Since the incident, the deans and professors from the faculties of history, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies, philosophy, and Islamic studies have criticized Bollinger’s behavior toward Ahmadinejad.
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Why are you posting propaganda from the official Iranian news agency? They use an 'unnamed source' for their story. Here's what Columbia University has to say:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/columbia-says-it-knows-of-no-visit-to-iran/
The NYT piece is just a kibuki dance. There is no denial of the delegations upcoming trip. The various Columbia spokes-people only claim not to know of their plans.
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