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Sep 25 2007 12:00am EDT

What Does Ahmadinejad Think About the Art in the Basement?

Speaking at Columbia University yesterday, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the packed crowd that there weren't any homosexuals in his country.

But there's that Francis Bacon triptych depicting homosexuality in the basement of one of Iran's museums.

Maybe this means that Ahmadinejad will be looking to take advantage of the Bacon bull market, too?

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