translate English to French: The statement of President Ahmadinejad, which seemed to have served as a pretext for those unwarranted and counter-productive remarks, had in fact been a genuine attempt to shed light on atrocities which an illegitimate regime had been committing for over 60 years.
L'intervention du Président Ahmadinejad, qui semble avoir motivé ces commentaires déplacés et contreproductifs, visait à jeter la lumière sur les atrocités commises par un régime illégitime depuis plus d'une soixantaine d'années.