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Iran's president has defended remarks he made on 9/11 attacks during his speech at the UN General Assembly.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the background to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the US in 2001 was "suspicious".
A day earlier US and several Western diplomats walked out of the UN summit as Ahmadinejad said many believed "some segments within the US government orchestrated the attack".
Speaking to journalists in New York on Friday, he challenged the UN to set up a fact-finding mission to investigate the attacks in which almost 3,000 people died.
"I did not pass judgment, but don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee," Ahmadinejad said.
US response
The White House described the remarks as the latest in a long list of outrageous comments that would deepen Tehran's isolation from the west.
Barack Obama, the US president, on Friday described the Iranian president's remarks as "offensive and hateful".
The US and its Western allies are locked in a standoff with Iran over its nuclear program, which Washington believes aims to produce atomic weapons but which Tehran says is for solely peaceful purposes.
In a speech at the UN on Thursday, Obama reiterated the US position that “the door to diplomacy with Iran remained open but that Tehran must fulfill international obligations over its nuclear program”.
Al Jazeera's James Bays, reporting from the UN headquarters, said Ahmadinejad's remarks had stirred anger in the US.
"This has really touched a raw nerve here. Many people you speak to are very, very angry about the comments," he said.
However, our correspondent said that after lashing out at Ahmadinejad's remarks, Obama had renewed his offer for talks with Iran.
For his part, Ahmadinejad told a news conference on Friday that he was ready for talks with the west. He said an Iranian official might meet next month with world powers to prove that Tehran's nuclear program is purely peaceful.
The UN Security Council in June imposed a fourth set of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to stop enriching uranium and to prove Iran is not trying to build an atomic bomb. The European Union and the US have added even more extensive sanctions targeting its foreign trade.
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves after addressing the 65th General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 23.
Al-Jazeera
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