(who is still talking although he was scheduled to speak 7 minutes, but not really adding anything new)
His appearance is of course structurally reminiscent of Fidel Castro's 2h speech at the first Durban conference. More importantly, it and the general fixation on the Middle East as the central "case" continues the time-honored Cold War-era tradition of turning international debates about "racism" and "fascism" into indictments of the United States, and into an international outreach tools for regimes with a radical particularist ideology, such as the USSR's and now Iran's.
The speech is now over. A. is being escorted out by a whole crowd of (evidently Iranian) security guards.
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