George Stephanopoulos is in Iran recording an interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He just wrote this fantastic blog about the interview and his day in general. One of the more interesting (and there are several) tidbits in the story is this exchange Stephanopoulos had with a senior administration official in Iran.

Out the door again at 8:00am for a meeting with President Ahmadinejad’s press adviser, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, a polite and smiling man with a prematurely snow-white beard.

Javanfekr wanted to know what I wanted to talk about.

We sat over tea and chatted for an hour about just about everything on the table between the U.S. and Iran. What surprised me most was the spokesman’s skepticism about who really caused the Sept. 11th attacks.

Suffice to say, conspiracy theories are alive and well at the highest levels of the Iranian government. Like the Holocaust, this is a subject they will leave for further study.

The thought of true negotiations with people who ignore the historical data on the Holocaust and the September 11th attacks, choosing instead to blame the victims and downplay the destruction, seems a bit silly. Good work, George.

Here’s a preview of the interview. Watch ‘This Week’ Sunday for the whole interview.

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