UPDATED:

Nope. It’s still on. Damn. What happened? Bloomberg and CBS had heard it was cancelled.

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Adios, Ahmadnejad.

Columbia University said it canceled a planned speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after failing to reach agreement on the format of his scheduled appearance on Sept. 24.

Columbia wasn’t able to “establish a conversation with the Iranian embassy that would ensure to my satisfaction that the specific arrangements of any such program would reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of a university,” university President Lee Bollinger said in a statement.

Via the ever-vigilant AllahP.