Addi­tional infor­ma­tion has emerged about Amer­i­can extrem­ists invited by the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment to a din­ner hon­or­ing Iran­ian Pres­i­dent Mah­moud Ahmadine­jad in New York City on Sep­tem­ber 25, 2012.  Ahmadine­jad was in town to attend the United Nations Gen­eral Assembly.

Mark Glenn’s offi­cial invi­ti­a­tion to the Ahmadine­jad dinner

In addi­tion to Louis Far­rakhan, the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment invited Mark Glenn, a vir­u­lently anti-Semitic con­spir­acy the­o­rist  (who claims that Jews con­trol banks, the stock exchange, politi­cians and the media) to speak at the din­ner. Glenn, who makes reg­u­lar appear­ances on Press TV, Iran’s English-language satel­lite net­work, used the din­ner as an oppor­tu­nity to attack Jews and Israel.

Glenn dis­cussed his speech on the Sep­tem­ber 27 edi­tion of his pro­gram on “The Ugly Truth,” an anti-Semitic online radio net­work and blog he runs. Glenn claimed that he shocked the guests at the din­ner by assert­ing that the Prime Min­is­ter of Israel, Ben­jamin Netanyahu, “is cor­rect” in say­ing that “Iran’s nuclear pro­gram is going to wipe Israel off the face of the map.”  In Glenn’s vision of the future, Iran will use nuclear power for peace­ful pur­poses and will be “the nucleus” around which all other Mid­dle East­ern coun­tries will revolve in “a per­fectly har­mo­nious orbit.”  Glenn asserted that a united Mid­dle East would then be able to rid the world of Israel, and that coun­tries out­side the region would also “kick Jews out of places of power.”

Glenn let his lis­ten­ers know how much the atten­dees at the din­ner appre­ci­ated his speech, say­ing, “I saw peo­ple wip­ing their eyes.” He claimed that the speech has now opened sev­eral major doors for him, which he will reveal in the near future.  Glenn also indi­cated that his invi­ta­tion to the din­ner and his appear­ances on Press TV have brought him closer to Iran­ian gov­ern­ment offi­cials, includ­ing Ahmadinejad.

This is not the first time Glenn has had deal­ings with Ahmadine­jad. In 2007, Glenn orga­nized “No More Wars for Israel,” an event in Irvine, Cal­i­for­nia that con­sisted of protests and lec­tures demo­niz­ing Jews and Israel. Accord­ing to Glenn, the event fea­tured a video­taped mes­sage from Ahmadine­jad, in which he con­demned Zion­ism as a racist move­ment and a dan­ger to world peace.

Glenn let his radio lis­ten­ers know that Ahmadine­jad is one of his heroes. Before recount­ing his din­ner speech on his show, Glenn ranted against the evils of Israel and claimed that Iran was, in con­trast, “a highly cul­tured, blame­less society.”

In addi­tion, Glenn com­pared Netanyahu and Jew­ish sup­port­ers to vam­pires, say­ing that they “feed on inno­cent human blood.” He pro­moted a con­spir­acy the­ory that Israel is mov­ing nuclear weapons into major cities and wait­ing for an oppor­tune moment for its “oper­a­tives” to det­o­nate them. Glenn later referred to Judaism as “a men­tal defect that leads to men­tal ill­ness, spir­i­tual bar­barism” and “left unchecked, can bring the world to the brink of utter annihilation.”

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