Ahmadinejad's Aura from Allah

Picture credit: A jaunty Ahmadinejad sporting this season's Aura from Allah.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad is coming to New York on September 24, 2007 to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The Iranian President will deliver a speech to the General Assembly and meet with other heads of state, Iranian representatives at the UN, and Iranians living in the US.

Ahmadinejad then will fly to Venezuela for a meeting with his good buddy President Hugo Chavez.

After his first visit to the United Nations on September 2005, Ahmadinejad confided to an Iranian cleric that someone told him that during his speech at the U.N. that he was "surrounded by a divine halo" and that all the world's leaders focused their attention on him. [video]

Ahmadinejad explained, "I also felt that, and I sensed that the atmosphere had suddenly changed and that all the leaders did not even blink for about 27 or 28 minutes, and I'm not exaggerating." [full text]

Some experts believe that Ahmadinejad thinks he is the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam. [video]