meeting like this. despite the turmoil in the middle east right now, today is really something. back to you, kate. nick, thanks so much for that. let s talk more about another element of what happened at the u.n. iran s new president made headlines when he condemned the holocaust during an exclusive interview with cnn s christiane amanpour. why? well, president rouhani s comments come in stark contrast to statements made by his predecessor. former iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad. the semiofficial iranian news agency is questioning the accuracy of cnn s translation of that interview. let s go live to cnn s reza sayah in tehran. it shows how delicate that relationship is when they are already questioning a translation of an interview. reporter: yes, kate. this was a strange incident that came out of nowhere, but considering what s happening in new york today, it s important not to blow this out of proportion and point out that this controversy was sparked by a single hard-line
president mahmoud ahmadinejad who often questioned the holocaust in speeches at the u.n. general assembly. back here in iran, rouhani s comments received little news attention. they claimed rouhani never explicitly acknowledged the holocaust and accused of cnn of fabricating the report by mistranslating rouhani s answer. cnn stands by its reporting, the translaying was provided by the president s own translator. the farce news website shows the translation from christiane amanpour s interview and claims these parts have been added or completely altered and that this statement was a product of conceptual and nonprecise translation. ridiculous. i don t dignify that with a comment. what i can say is we put the entire transcript out online. we have the 56-minute interview. we have his translator.