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| Rafsanjani Speaks |
| 2007-07-13 |
| Just what is it that is gonna wake us up? By Michael Rubin Former President and current Expediency Council chairman Hashemi Rafsanjani, whom many in Washington consider a possible partner, gave Iran's official weekly sermon today. Among his points, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency : * The U.S. doesn't declare its true casualty figures in Iraq (A recurrent propaganda line, Persian headline and text, here). Me: The idea floating around Washington that Iraq can be separated from Afghanistan is naive. The Iranians, who interfere in both, have the same objectives in both. Iraq is a laboratory. If strategies applied there cause the U.S. Congress to embrace defeat, then those same strategies will be applied in Afghanistan. And those inclined to accept Rafsanjani's veracity in the hopes that he might be a sincere diplomatic partner might note his statement: "Iran has proved the fact that it never uses unconventional warfare. We could use chemical weapons in our war with Iraq as the Iraqis did, but we didn't." This is an outright lie. Between 1984 and 1988, Iran used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces (who first used CW against Iran in 1983). And, of course, in a similar sermon on December 14, 2001, Rafsanjani said the Islamic Republic would consider first use of a nuclear weapon should it achieve that capability. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 I'll ask this question again - does this mean that during the Cold War, e.g. Vietnam and 1960's - 1975, and inclusive of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Red China, that mainstream Muslims wants and preferred the Soviets and Chicoms over dealing wid the USA-West??? Do angry Muslims, including Radic Islamists, hate the USA = USA-West because of specific actions + decisions,; or becuz of envy andor the failures of Islam per se, etc.??? Remember now, even notable, dedicated Islamist personages have publicly stated or implied that they + Islam-Islamism fear the self-/ideo-perceived growing obsolescence and irrelevance of Islam in the modern world, espec in relation to the USA-West. IT IS MUSLIMS THAT HAVE SAID OR IMPLIED THIS, NOT WESTIES OR JUDAEO-XTIANS OR EVEN ANTI-ISLAMIST WESTIES. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-07-13 23:10 |
| #2 Just what is it that is gonna wake us up? Loss of a major city. But don't worry, we've got plenty. |
| Posted by: Harry Reid 2007-07-13 22:22 |
| #1 * "The whole oppression against the Muslim nation of Iran originates from the US" If this is what he and the Iranian people believe, who are we to prove them wrong? Let's put some actual truth into Rafsanjani's rhetoric and really oppress Iran in a meaningful way. * "[The Americans] are receiving an appropriate response from the Almighty God in Iraq and Afghanistan." It is this divinely inspired mentality borne by so many Muslims that makes it ever more imperative that we begin laying waste to our Islamic foes. They must be made to understand how their's is a false religion that has led them into the arms of disaster and rendered Islam an impotent and backward creed. Defeating theocratic Islam is one of the West's greatest priorities. Part of doing so is to remove all doubt for Muslims that they have been abandoned by their false god and must pay the price for imposing such a violent and mistaken ideology upon the larger world. This cannot begin too soon. Islam must for once and all time be discredited by the more powerful West. Our lives depend upon it. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-13 22:16 |