US walks out of UNGA after Ahmadinejad rant

Ahmadinejad also attacked the US for its history of slavery,accused it of causing two world wars and using a nuclear bomb against “defenceless people”. Washington,he said,was guilty of imposing and supporting military dictatorships and totalitarian regimes in Asia,Africa and Latin America.

Mark Kornblau,spokesman for the US Mission to the UN,said: “Mr Ahmadinejad had a chance to address his own people’s aspirations for freedom and dignity,but instead he again turned to abhorrent anti-Semitic slurs and despicable conspiracy theories.”

Ahmadinejad accused European countries of using the Holocaust “as excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists”. EDITH M LEDERER