A rare chat with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I like watching 60 Minutes every Thursday. It was very interesting interview of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. I like those challenging questions of what Mike Wallace asked, especially at the end of interview, he asked “Do you want to have relations now, after 26, 27 years, with the United States?” And the last answer made by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “I do hope that the Americans will give up this practice of threatening other nations so that you are not forced to ask me such questions. I wish you well and further success.”
It’s not really about how Americans like practicing of threatening foreign affairs, is just the way how the leader/government wants to satisfy their own ambition. If the leader of a nation who can take care of its domestic problems well, then naturally the nation will become much stronger. In this case, any diplomatic issues won’t become burden of the country.
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That interview is about a year old, but it was shown again on “60 Minutes” last week. You may be interested to know that the interviewer, Mike Wallace, is almost 90 years old. He’s still quite sharp. I have been watching Mike Wallace on “60 Minutes” since I was a little kid.
Really?? I didn’t know that it was from a year ago.
It’s amazing that Mike Wallace is almost 90 years old. He neither looks like it nor acts like it.
I saw this interview last year about this time. And I watched the repeat broadcast of 60 minutes the other evening.
It is a show that is well worth watching. A spot of information about Mike Wallace that I snatched from Wikipedia:
Mike Wallace (born Myron Leon Wallace on May 9, 1918) is an American journalist. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes since its debut in 1968 . During his career at 60 Minutes, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Ayn Rand, Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Malcolm X, Jeffrey Wigand, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Manuel Noriega, Vladimir Putin, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Wallace retired as a regular correspondent in 2006 at age 88