U.N. official says U.S. "demonizes" Iranian leader

Yeah ! And nobody bashes the United States ? The U.N. seems to favor U.S Bashing ,and Demonizing !
When the people who hold Positions at the U.N. DENY what world leaders say , It makes them Irrelevant ! the U.N needs to go !

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly president accused the United States on Tuesday of "demonizing" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the latest blast against Washington by the former Nicaraguan official.

"I don't think anyone can doubt that in our part of the world, concretely here ... Ahmadinejad has been demonized," Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann told a news conference.

Ahmadinejad caused outrage in the West by saying in 2005 that the state of Israel should be wiped off the map. He has also questioned the Holocaust and promoted a nuclear program the West suspects aims to produce atomic weapons. Tehran says the program is for peaceful purposes.

D'Escoto said that "the United States has been in the business of the demonization of people from (for)ever," but had "canonized" former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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D'Escoto said he did not support Ahmadinejad's comments on Israel but questioned whether they had been made. "If he said that I think it's lamentable," he said.

D'Escoto also criticized as "unfortunate" the International Criminal Court's decision to issue an arrest warrant on March 4 for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur. He said it would "deepen a perception that international justice is racist."

Saying it was Bush who had first leveled the charge of genocide in Darfur against the Sudanese leadership, he said: "That should tell you quite a bit already. Can you imagine (1920s Chicago gangster) Al Capone calling the police to say that somebody stole milk from the market? It's Al Capone standing for uprightness."

D'Escoto, who has enraged Israel by comparing its policy toward the Palestinians to the former South African apartheid policy of racial segregation, defended the comparison, saying it had also been made by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.