Ahmadinejad Equates Crackdown in Iran to Policing of G-20 Protests in Pittsburgh and London
N Y Times / ROBERT MACKEY
24-Dec-2009

December 23, 2009, 5:31 PM
Ahmadinejad Equates Crackdown in Iran to Policing of G-20 Protests in Pittsburgh and London By ROBERT MACKEY

Updated | 7:15 p.m. A British news anchor was suddenly invited to Iran to interview President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad this week, just days after his program broadcast an interview with a man who claimed that he had helped to rig Iran’s June presidential election as a member of Iran’s Basij militia.

The anchor, Jon Snow of Channel 4 News, explained in a blog post published Wednesday that he had been trying to obtain an interview for months and had been turned down twice before the sudden invitation.

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