Whether it's Iran, Israel, Syria, or Egypt, the Middle East continues to capture nearly all of the headlines from the United Nations general assembly in New York City.
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his eighth and final address to the UN, accused "uncivilized Zionists" of using "nuclear intimidation" as a basis of relations. On the heels of his comments in New York Monday that amount to Israel having no right to exist in the Middle East, Ahmadinejad earned the lion's share of publicity this week.
By reaffirming his aversion to foreign intervention in Syria, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi also garnered considerable attention this week. Morsi did, however, advocate "diplomatic pressure" on the oppressive regime of Bashar al-Assad. Whether the solution to Syrian unrest is regional or global may be out of Morsi's hands.
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Posted by Colin Wescott
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