Ahmadinejad accosted in verbal introduction at Columbia

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was roasted by the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, as a "'petty and cruel dictator' whose denials of the Holocaust have made him a fool on the international stage."

Iran's nuclear programme, fear of war, denial of the Holocaust and homosexuality were all discussed in Ahmadinejad's speech.

Most blistering part of Bollinger's introduction? "You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."

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