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| Rafsanjani Tells Crowd at Friday Prayers That Moslem Should Nuke Israel |
| 2004-12-04 |
| From The Iran Press Service One of Iran's most influential ruling cleric called Friday on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only". "If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. .... In a lengthy speech to mark the so-called "International Qods (Jerusalem) Day" celebrated in Iran only, Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who, as the Chairman of the Assembly to Discern the Interests of the State, is the Islamic Republic's number two man after Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i, said since Israel was an emanation of Western "War of the pious and martyrdom seeking forces against peaks of colonialism will be highly dangerous and might fan flames of the World War III", the former Iranian president said, backing firmly suicide operations against Israel. ..... "Jews shall expect to be once again scattered and wandering around the globe the day when this appendix is extracted from the region and the Muslim world", Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani warned, blaming on the United States and Britain the "creation of the fabricated entity" in the heart of Arab and Muslim world. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #8 Someone needs to make it crystal clear that, should Israel take even a single nuclear hit, all other surrounding Islamic nations would be left uninhabitable for centuries, if not millennia. Even if Israel's arsenal were somehow crippled, western nations should retaliate in their stead out of sheer principal. How Europe can countenance this sort of bellicose rhetoric and simultaneously convince themselves that Iran has no aspirations for nuclear weapons goes beyond incredible. This sort of outright rallying cry for nuclear conflict must be regarded as the threat to regional stability that it is. Having been sucked into the power vacuum created by Saddam's expulsion, the Iranian mullahs are outgassing at a ferocious rate. The ever-expanding ferocity of their diatribes should be taken quite seriously. Even if it is only to provide a convenient excuse for bombing the living shit out of them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-12-04 11:01:35 PM |
| #7 Anyone see this on the evening news? I bet is Sharon said Israel will nuke Iran (or Germany) it would be the lead story. Could it be our beloved press corps has one code of conduct for ourselves and another for those who will destroy us? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-12-04 10:59:01 PM |
| #6 I think he must be mistaken if he thinks his country will still exist if Isreal is hit with a nuclear weapon. His thinking however is standard for the moon cult of death. |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2004-12-04 10:36:48 PM |
| #5 Foreign Policy in Iran is as clear as glass. I don't give them credit for honesty, however, for it is a matter of not knowing how to effectively lie like dogs, not realizing we're paying attention, that we have been lied to by the best - Advertisers - so one must be extraordinarily wily to slip one over on the TV generations... So no, it's not a point of honor that he speaks frankly. Ol' Raffy speaks his mind secure in the belief that his shit doesn't stink and that we're all stupid - nothing more. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-04 10:32:53 PM |
| #4 Interesting to contrast how NO leader of any western country ever, ever, calls for the annihilation of any other country, yet these scumbags complain that the west is attacking the muslims. "Damages only." Doesn't he realize that destroying Israel is signing the death warrant for the entire region? Hell....even ATTACKING Israel would mean the end of their regime. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-12-04 10:30:33 PM |
| #3 ..assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only". I wonder, does this asshole know what kind of "damage" would be dispensed in return for a nuclear attack? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-04 10:20:10 PM |
| #2 Nothing new. He's been saying this for a while. tick tick tick. . . |
| Posted by: SR-71 2004-12-04 10:17:10 PM |
| #1 well, at least he's honest...to hell with the Religion of Peace act, eh? |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-04 10:01:03 PM |