Diana West: Tehran’s jet-setting genocide man

Published April 4, 2010 4:00am ET



What a heady whirl of a month it has been for Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the world’s most fabulous jihad kingpin and leading proponent of genocide. Everyone seems to want a piece of him, in a good way, of course. American enemies, American “allies” — they’re all palsy-walsy. Where that leaves Uncle Sucker is another matter.

First, the enemies. At the end of February, A-jad was off to Damascus — ah, Damascus in February — for a joint summit with Bashar al-Assad to denounce the United States and Israel, and then, a group summit, or “war council” as Arab media called it, with both Assad and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah. All three denounced, for variation, Israel and the United States.

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