In a meeting with Iranian heads of intelligence, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the September 11 attacks against the U.S. were carried out as an excuse for the war on terror campaign, as well as the invasion of Afghanistan.
According to INRA, the Islamic Republic News Agency, Ahmadinejad, who has previously denied the holocaust, recently called the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers in New York a "suspect event" and questioned the death toll.
"Under this pretext they attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then a million people have been killed only in Iraq," the Iranian president said in a speech broadcast on state-run television.
In the largest terror attack on U.S. soil in 2001, almost 3,000 lives were lost when four planes which were hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists and crashed into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and an open field in Pennsylvania.
Ahmedinejad skeptically recounted the event saying "A building collapsed and they said 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names."
These new alleged accusations of Ahmadinejad come at a time of rising tensions between Iran and the West, following the intentions to place new sanctions on Iran because of its progress in the race for nuclear power.
Similar remarks were made by the Iranian President about 9/11 last week, regarding the country's national nuclear day. "How is it possible that with the best radar systems and intelligence networks, the planes could crash undetected into the towers?" he charged.
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