By Adam Nichols
DNAinfo News Editor
Manhattan - President Obama hit out at his Iranian counterpart after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave an "offensive, hateful and inexcusable" rant blaming America for the 9/11 terror attacks.
The Iranian leader made his outlandish assertions at a speech on Thursday at the UN.
"For him to make the statement here in Manhattan, just a little north of Ground Zero where families lost their loved ones, people of all faiths, all ethnicities who see this as the seminal tragedy of this generation, for him to make a statement like that is inexcusable," Obama told the BBC.
The U.S. delegation walked out of the UN General Assembly as Ahmadinejad began making his claims about America's role in the terror attacks.
"Don't you feel that the time has come to have a fact finding committee?" he asked.
"An event occurred and, under the pretext of that event, two countries were invaded and up to now hundreds of thousands of people have been killed as a result. Don't you feel that that excuse has to be revised?
"Why do you assume that all nations must accept what the U.S. government tells them?"
