"Approximately, three billion people of the world live on less than 2.5 dollars a day, and over a billion people live without having even one sufficient meal on a daily basis. Forty-percent of the poorest world populations only share five percent of the global income, while twenty percent of the richest people share seventy-five percent of the total global income. More than twenty thousand innocent and destitute children die every day in the world because of poverty. What is the justification for the presence of hundreds of US military and intelligence bases in different parts of the world...? An assembly of people in contradiction with the inner human instincts and disposition who also have no faith in God and in the path of the divine prophets, replace their lust for power and materialistic ends with heavenly values. To them, only power and wealth prevail, and every attempt must bring into focus these sinister goals..."
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Ahmadinejad United Nations Speech: Full Text Transcript, International Business Times, 22 Oct 2011
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born October 28, 1956) is an Iranian politician who was the sixth President of the Islamic Republic of Iran from 6 August 2005 (after winning the 2005 presidential election) until August 2013. An Iranian principlist and nationalist, he served as Mayor of Tehran earlier in his career.
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