So much for dinner with Iran's looney leader.
Plans for members of a Columbia University student organization to nosh with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were scuttled Wednesday by "the controversy surrounding the event," The Columbia Spectator reported.
Fifteen members of CIRCA, which stands for Columbia International Relations Council and Association, were supposed to dine with Ahmadinejad on Wednesday, the paper reported.
A CIRCA spokesman could not be reached to explain the sudden change of plans.
University president Lee Bollinger had not planned to join the students in breaking bread with Ahmadinejad, despite a FOX News report to the contrary.
"At no time has there ever been any university event planned or considered involving the president of Iran, nor has there ever been any plan for a dinner involving the Iranian president and President Bollinger," the university said in a statement.
Bollinger caught hell in 2007 for inviting the Iranian president to speak at Columbia, and giving the Holocaust denier an Ivy League platform from which he could spew more poison.
In his introduction, Bollinger ripped him for denying the Holocaust and called him "either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated."
Ahmadinejad protested that Bollinger was "unfriendly" and accused him of pandering to Iran's critics before launching into a bizarre speech in which, among other things, he insisted "we don't have homosexuals" in Iran.
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