So, the media (state-run) and the government website which has the transcript, have removed significant details from, apparently, history. I know you’re going to be shocked, but turns out the people in Iran will probably have little, if any, idea about the questioning of, and lies by, their President. As predicted.

The official website of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has removed a portion of a transcript of his speech yesterday at Columbia University. In the scrubbed section, part of a question and answer period, Ahmadinejad said there are no homosexuals in Iran.

In a statement released by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission the organization noted that the comments had been removed from the Persian language version of the site, but left in the English transcription of the speech. Following an inquiry by PageOneQ made to the Iranian embassy, the entire question and answer period has been removed from the site…

According to IGLHRC, no Persian language papers have reported on the remarks.

Wait…So, you mean that whole “questioning him” thing may not have reached the people it actually matters to? It may have only given him the ability to say he was invited to a respected institution to talk, while ignoring the questioning of his policies? It may have actually helped legitimized him? Who would’ve thunk it?

AllahP finds discrepancies-a-plenty in what part of his speech is being reported. For example, here’s WaPo’s transcript, and here’s the transcript on the Iranian despot’s site. The WaPo transcript, which matches up with what we heard ourselves:

God is aware of all reality. All researchers and scholars are loved by God. So I hope there will be a day where these scholars and scientists will rule the world and God himself will arrive with Moses and Christ and Mohammed to rule the world and to take us toward justice.

And now for the transcript on his website:

The Almighty knows every thing and He loves scholars, researchers and teachers. We wish for the day when pious and pure scholars and scientists run the world and the pious ruler who shall be divine one rules over the world.

I’m looking for more.

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