[Asharq al-Aswat] Iran's supreme leader told the opposition on Friday they would face a harsh response if they drew their "swords" against the ruling establishment. The warning from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered at Friday prayers three months after a disputed poll that led to widespread unrest, was a clear message he would not tolerate any threat to Iran's clerical system of government.
"Resisting the system and taking out the sword against the system will be followed by a harsh response," he told worshippers in a sermon broadcast live on state television. "If somebody stands against the basis of the (Islamic) system and violates people's security, the system is forced to stand against it," he said.
But in his lengthy sermon Khamenei did not address proposals that Tehran on Wednesday delivered to world powers involved in efforts to resolve the issue diplomatically, but reiterated that the Islamic state should not back down on its "nuclear rights." "It is a sign of deviation to give up one's rights, nuclear rights or non-nuclear rights, instead of insisting on them," he said.
But Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state, added criticism and differences among officials were acceptable.
It was Khamenei's first Friday prayers sermon since the June poll, when he endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, blamed the opposition for bloodshed and accused Western powers of interfering in Iran's affairs.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] At least 15 Israeli rockets hit the southern Lebanese village of al-Qlaileh on Friday shortly after two rockets were fired from it towards Israel, a security official said. Residents of northern Israel said they heard explosions but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
"Debris from at least one Katyusha rocket fired from south Lebanon were found in the area of the city of Nahariya and Kibbutz Gesher Aziv," a police official told AFP. Public radio said the Israeli armed forces responded with artillery fire against the Lebanese village from which the rockets were fired. An Israeli military spokesman confirmed that Israel fired about a dozen artillery rounds in response to several rockets.
Good. Hope they hit something more than fields.
The Israeli army holds the Lebanese government responsible for preventing such attacks, the spokesman said.
In Lebanon, ambulances were rushed to the village from the port city of Tyre, nine kilometres (five miles) away.
Both Washington and the United Nations condemned the violence and urged continued adherence to a 2006 truce that ended a month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah. P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said the rocket fire was in "clear violation" of that ceasefire and showed "the urgent need to bring arms in Lebanon under control of the state."
A stiff note to follow on official stationery, no doubt.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged both sides, in a statement, to exercise restraint and said U.N. peacekeeping troops known as UNIFIL were "investigating the circumstances of the incident."
It was the first time since February that rockets had been fired from Lebanon into Israel, raising tensions along a border that remains volatile three years after a war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah Islamist guerrillas in Lebanon. Occasional salvoes since then have been blamed by Israeli, Lebanese and U.N. peacekeeping forces in the area largely on fringe militant groups rather than on Hezbollah, the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi'ite movement which remains a powerful force in Lebanon, especially in the south.
During Israel's offensive against Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip in January, Hezbollah denied responsibility for several rockets fired from Lebanon. Security officials have said small groups active among Palestinian refugees or with links to al Qaeda were more likely to have mounted the attacks.
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Iran musta been disturbed by Bibi's travels and dialed up an "incident"
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Latest] An Iranian lawmaker says that Iran plans to buy the latest Russian airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ).
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They can create a fearsom world-beating fighter jet, all kinds of advanced weaponry that has never been seen before (and probably will never be) but they can't create their own indiginously produced jetliner? How strange.
#2
Sukhoi is building this regional jet in partnership with Alenia Aeronautica, an Italian firm. Boeing is 'consulting' on the project (?).
Apparently the Iranians decided not to trust their airline passengers to Iran's own 'vapor-ware'.
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How nice the regime is showing concern for its citizens now.
As for the Sus, high tech is groovy, but as Manfred von Ricthoven said "The quality of the crate matters little. It is the quality of the man sitting in the crate that counts".
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And maintenance. Don't forget maintenance. Ins'Allah maintenance does not cut it, even for the most technically sophisticated aircraft. Good luck with your aircraft, Iran. Better hire expat mechanics, if you can find enough willing to put up with your insanity.
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Insh'allah lawndarts
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