WORLD BRIEFING : IRAN : Ahmadinejad’s wife gives speech
Times Wire Reports
Iran’s first lady made a rare public appearance and even more rare, a speech, at a Rome forum on the eve of a U.N. summit to fight hunger.
The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is believed never to have made a speech before.
First Lady Azam Sadat Farahi came to the forum of wives of heads of state before the three-day summit on strategies to fight world hunger at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO.
She spoke from her seat among the spouses of about 60 leaders, an FAO official said.
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