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Iran’s Ahmadinejad keen to attend London Olympics

Reported by Firstpost on Thursday, 17 May 2012 (on May 17, 2012)

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday he was keen to attend the 2012 London Olympics to support his country's athletes but that the British authorities had "problems" with hosting him, the official IRNA news agency said. Iran said last year it might boycott the London Olympics because it believed the event's logo, which depicts the year 2012 with four jagged multi-coloured figures, resembled the word Zion and was therefore "racist"

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