Former Iranian president invited to speak in Washington: report

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/August/theworld_August766.xml§ion=theworld

WASHINGTON - The United States has agreed to issue a visa for former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to speak in Washington despite the looming crisis over Iran’s nuclear program, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Khatami, a reformist cleric who was Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005, would be the most senior Iranian to visit the United States since Washington broke off diplomatic relations following the Islamic revolution and takeover of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.

He has been invited to speak next month on “understanding between civilizations and cultures” at the Washington National Cathedral, the event organizer, Reverend Canon John Peterson of the cathedral’s Center for Global Justice and Reconciliation, told AFP.

A State Department spokesman said Khatami had not yet applied for a visa and declined to comment on whether one would be issued to the former Iranian leader.

[bryant69]

1. Soon we will here Conservatoids nattering on about foggy bottom betrayels

They are always doing this anyway - but yeah, this will piss them off- the idea that we would make nice with a nation we should be blowing the hell out of.

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