Ahmadinejad Nearly Shot by American Secret Service Agent
According to the upcoming book “Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry” written by Marc Ambinder and D.B. Grady, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was nearly shot by an American Secret Service agent when the agent accidentally discharged a shotgun within feet of Ahmadinejad, near a motorcade parked at the InterContinental Hotel in Manhattan, where Ahmadinejad and his entourage were staying during the United Nations’ General Assembly.
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The Atlantic revealed that “the agent was adjusting the side-mounted shotgun on one of the motorcade’s armored follow-up Suburbans when it discharged. “Everyone just stopped. The Iranians looked at us and we looked at the Iranians. The agent began to apologize. Ahmadinejad just turned his head and got into his car.” And that was it.”
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