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"Iran can also be wiped off the map", Israel.
2006-05-08
Vice Premier Shimon Peres said Monday in an interview to Reuters that "the president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map," Army Radio reported.
Aaaahhh HAHAHAHA!! The man has some BALLS!
And he's usually so mush-headed. Wonder if someone slipped him a levitra?
According to Peres, "Teheran is making a mockery of the international community's efforts to solve the crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program."

"Iran presents a danger to the entire world, not just to us," Peres added.
Europe especially, but they don't care as long as they have socialism.
Peres' vehement expressions came the same day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reportedly wrote to US President George W. Bush proposing "new solutions" to their differences in the first letter from an Iranian leader to an American president in 27 years, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said Monday. The letter was sent via the Swiss Embassy in Teheran, which has a US interests section, Elham told a press conference.

In the letter, Ahmadinejad proposes "new solutions for getting out of international problems and current fragile situation of the world," Elham said.
Or "Leave us alone so we can nuke you later. You will thank us."
Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Monday that the Iranian president's letter to Bush could create a "new diplomatic appeasement opening," but also warned that the letter did not reflect a softening in Iran's position. Ali Larijani refused to give details of the letter's content, but said, "Perhaps it could lead to a new diplomatic opening. It needs to be given some time."

"There is a need to wait before disclosing the content of the letter, let it make its diplomatic way," Larijani said in an interview with Turkey's NTV television.
"Give us more time"
Larijani added, however, that the "tone of the letter is not something like softening."

He also warned against any US attack against Iran. "If they have a little bit of a brain, they would not commit such a mistake," he said. "Iran is not Iraq. Iraq was a weak country, it did not have a legitimate government. Iran is a powerful country."
We will see how powerful you are when you are bombed into oblivion and our tanks just blow the hell out of you and leave instead of staying.
It is the first time that an Iranian president has written to his US counterpart since 1979, when the two countries broke relations after Iranian militants stormed the US Embassy and held the occupants hostage for more than a year.
Posted by:DarthVader

#3  Maybe he's seen the light, especially with the election of Hamas? Can't conduct peace with someone who'll kill you the minute you turn your back. Fatah always played the "miltary vs political wing" game very well...as AlanC(?) noted this weekend
Posted by: Frank G   2006-05-08 19:46  

#2  
Israeli Nuclear Program Pioneered by Shimon Peres

In 1953, at age 30, Shimon Peres was appointed by Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, to become Director-General of the Ministry of Defense. Within three years, Peres had laid the foundation for Israel's nuclear weapon program. He picked France as the major supplier, arranged the sale of a nuclear reactor, and spent the next decade overseeing the construction of the Dimona nuclear weapon production complex.


And he can be quite decisive when he wants

Entebbe...

The discussion at the cabinet meeting continued on and at one point Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel passed a note to the Israeli Defense Minister, Shimon Peres telling him that they should begin the operation, that they could always call the operation off. Peres smiled and Rabin realized that the operation was already in process. Within an hour, the cabinet had voted unanimously to approve the operation.
Posted by: john   2006-05-08 19:32  

#1  "Iraq ... did not have a legitimate government."

This would seem to imply the 'coalition of the willing' had a silent partner. Can you hear me now, France?
Posted by: Glenmore   2006-05-08 18:32  

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