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| Khamenei sez Iraq war is "satanic" |
| 2003-03-21 |
| Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday denounced the US-led attack on neighboring Iraq as "satanic" and called on Iranians to get ready for an economic and cultural war. Khamenei called for an "immediate" halt to the day-old war, in a message for the Iranian New Year. "Today it is America which is alone," he said, condemning the "arrogance and prejudice of American rulers and their belligerency." Funny, I don't feel lonely... He stressed, however, that he did not support Saddam Hussein's "dictatorial" Iraqi regime. Iran defends not Saddam but "the Iraqi nation, and believes that the future of Iraq must be decided only by the Iraqi nation". Maybe Iran should have helped them do that sometime in the past ten years... Khamenei urged young Iranians "to strengthen their resolution" in the new year. "Although we may have no military war, we will definitely have a political and economic and, especially, a cultural war." "So get ready to spend the next year making faces and hollering..." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 We be the Great Satan (TM)....if you piss us off. But we be yo' Good Buddy, too, if yo' let us. Better quit studying war no more. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-03-21 21:42:55 |
| #1 Ayatollah Ali. To your east, Afghanistan. To the west, Iraq. In the middle, you. Might be good to remember that. Hope you're enjoying "Shock and Awe: The Miniseries". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-21 21:29:36 |