What I’ve learned from the press club speech thus far: Mahmoud loves love. The Iranian people are free. The press is free. Anything bad you read about Iran are lies.

UPDATE: “The freest women in the world are women in Iran.”

UPDATE II: He hates war.

UPDATE III: Warns Sarkozy to play nice — and to “talk from a level of higher maturity” than he has vis-a-vis Iran.

UPDATE IV: Here comes the Holocaust denying!