Ahmadinejad's Foreign Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12457337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Masoud Kazemzadeh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 423-449 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/1089201x-2007-015 |
| OpenAlex | W2076045541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
ahmoud Ahmadinejad, inaugurated as Iran’s president in August 2005, almost immediately created a storm of controversy. He stunned the diplomatic world on 17 September 2005 with his speech at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The diplomatic world was anxiously waiting for the new president to announce his proposals to resolve Iran’s problems with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Instead, Ahmadinejad made harsh verbal attacks on the United States and Israel. On 26 October Ahmadinejad delivered a fi ery speech at a state-sponsored conference held at the Ministry of the Interior titled “The World without Zionism” in which he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and threatened that any government in the Islamic world that recognized Israel “will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.”1 On 8 December, while attending an emergency meeting of the heads of the Organization of the Islamic Conference held in Mecca, where his Saudi hosts were attempting to project a moderate image of Islam, Ahmadinejad cast doubt on whether the Holocaust had occurred and demanded that Europeans move Israel to Germany or Austria. Back home in Iran, Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” and demanded that Jews in Israel be moved to Europe, America, Canada, or Alaska. Finally, on 8 May 2006, Ahmadinejad wrote a 3,901-word letter to President George W. Bush reiterating some of these themes.2 Ahmadinejad’s remarks present three analytically signifi cant questions
Foreign policy · Political science · Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |