"The current abysmal situation of the world and the bitter incidents of history are due mainly to the wrong management of the world, and the self-proclaimed centers of power who have entrusted themselves to the devil," Mr. Ahmadinejad said.
The ambassadors came back some months after Iran elected its liberal-minded president, Muhammad Khatami, new "substantive talks" are now about to begin, and the bitter German incident is rarely mentioned.Although the Iranians are showing restraint in their reaction to semi-accusations of terrorism, they are full-voiced in responding to the American "retreat" on sanctions.
He and his circle are still bitter about the incident.
He remained bitter about the incident in later years, convinced the F.B.I. director sabotaged him in order to ensure his own position as spy czar.
The incident triggered bitter recrimination between secular and orthodox Israelis.
Sikhs across the United States mourned the deaths in the Wisconsin shooting, and some said that the incident "revived bitter memories of the period just after the Sept. 11 attacks" when their "distinctive turbans and beards" seemed to trigger violence by people who mistook them for Muslims militants, Ethan Bronner wrote in The New York Times.
And as subsequent statements by the two governments have made clear, the letter's contrite tone, while welcomed here, did not resolve the bitter issues raised by the incident.
Saturday's incident provoked a bitter reaction from Macclesfield manager Steve King, who said he had told East he should "ring me and apologise" once he had seen it again on television but 23-year-old Wedgbury was more magnanimous, insisting Macclesfield should not blame only the referee.
It is believed that the incident is linked to bitter internal fights.
