Who uninvited whom?
Kofi Annan isn't going to Iran. We're not quite sure why:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has canceled his forthcoming trip to Tehran after the Iranian president's call to "wipe Israel off the map," the United Nations said on Friday....
"The secretary-general and the Iranian government have mutually agreed that this is not an appropriate time for him to travel to Iran," U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
"In light of the ongoing controversy, it would have been difficult to advance the agenda that he had wanted to discuss with the Iranian leadership," Dujarric said.
In Tehran, a Foreign Ministry source contended it was Iran, not Annan, who wanted the trip rescheduled "to a more appropriate time in the future," the official Iranian news agency Irna reported.
Iran said comments made by Annan on Thursday were "under the influence of American officials and were not interpreted well in Tehran."
Annan, who had previously rebuked the Iranian president, told reporters on Thursday that "no one in the international community defended what the Iranian president said and the Security Council itself issued a statement." He was answering questions on why he had not called off the trip.
Separate condemnations had been issued by the European Union, the United States, Russia, Canada and other nations.
Guess we'll have to ask Darrel Adams and Keith Hinson what really happened.
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