Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

In his speech at Columbia University, Iranian President Amedinejad invited university faculty and students "to come and visit Iran, to speak with our university students":

"You're officially invited. University faculty and students that the university decides, or the student associations choose and select
are welcome to come. You're welcome to visit any university that you choose inside Iran. We'll provide you with the list of the universities. There are over 400 universities in our country. And you can choose whichever you want to go and visit. We'll give you the
platform. We'll respect you 100 percent. We will have our students sit there and listen to you, speak with you, hear what you have to say. Right now in our universities on a daily basis there are hundreds of meetings like this. They hear, they talk, they ask questions. They welcome it."  (translation from the Washington Post; unfortunately, the question and answer portion of Amedinejad's presentation is not available on President Amedinejad's website)

On his website on Oct 7, Ahmadinejad emphasized that Iran needs to have "positive interactions" with the world: " ...our universities should have a world viewpoint in scientific and cultural affairs."  
A "world view-point," however, seems to mean that the rest of the world should learn from Iran: "The world has nothing to offer versus our culture and scientific background and this was quite clear in what happened at Columbia University."  

Maybe we should find out all we can about Iranian culture and science. Has there been any response to Amedinejad's invitation to visit Iran from Columbia University or from any other group?  Not just to have a platform and speak, but to listen and learn.

Amedinejad website: http://www.president.ir/en/