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| US will expedite Iranian leaderÂ’s visa | ||
| 2007-03-17 | ||
| WASHINGTON - The United States said on Friday it would expedite Iranian President Mahmoud AhmadinejadÂ’s request for a visa to address the UN Security Council when it votes on a new sanctions resolution against his country next week. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack urged Ahmadinejad to use the appearance to do an about face and announce the suspension of his countryÂ’s uranium enrichment program as demanded under previous UN resolutions.
“We are going to do everything that we can in accordance with our (UN) host country responsibilities to expedite the issuing of any such visas,” he said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 Can't we start a windex drive? I mean wouldn't be the rantburg thing to do to help with the future clean up. After all if they do something funny they will need all the windex they can get. |
| Posted by: bruce 2007-03-17 18:43 |
| #8 If that happened Bush would have no choice but to incinerate every major city and military installation in Iran as retaliation. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-03-17 18:09 |
| #7 That's the kind of scenario that was suggested in comments yesterday, but it's also quite possible that the extra load left on the plane is just hostages to prevent a planned crash of the plane or a coup in his absence. Given Iran's record with plane problems, I'd be bringing all the mechanics with me if I were him. |
| Posted by: Harcourt Unoth4089 2007-03-17 13:18 |
| #6 Dear Rantburgians, permit me, if you will to propose the following facts: 1 - Ahmadinejad has repeatedly claimed holy fire was going to be brought to bear on the enemies of Allan. 2 - He has repeatedly offered a time-table starting about now for this fire to be made manifest. 3 - He is clearly doing his bit to immanentize his eschaton and has clearly seen himself as a kind of John the Baptist heralding the emergence of the Twelfth Imam. 4 - Given the right circumstances, i.e. grandstanding to top the Sunni massacre of Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, and his death cult ideology, it seems reasonable to believe he would seek personal "martyrdom". Certainly, the possibility could not credibly be ruled out. Continue to indulge me with the following scenario: Ahmadinejad addresses the United Nations and before the cameras of the world uses the key word that is the signal to his followers. In the last seconds of his life he sees a halo rise above his audience in the General Assembly followed by his gruesome death. Would it be shrapnel from the blast wave, over-pressure, building collapse or the fireball itself that kills him? I doubt many would think to ask as infrared pictures of the crater became visible through the smoke. And with over a hundred thousand dead and rising Iran's announcement of its nuclear weapons capability would be swiftly denied by all the usual traitors. Perhaps on that day even France could force itself to feign sympathy before reminding us of Hiroshima and the "red Indians" and of course the Great Satan George W. Bush. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-03-17 09:25 |
| #5 a few gallons of Holy Water in his tanks might help. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-17 07:09 |
| #4 Insist on an "Insepction" of his airplane when he lands. I'm sure the engineers know a way or two to discreetly sabotage it without anyone noticing. They could probably time it so he goes down right in the middle of the Atlantic. No recovery of the aircraft possible there I think. |
| Posted by: Charles 2007-03-17 05:21 |
| #3 Keep a fire team at the airport ready to hit anything coming out of the plane uninvited. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-03-17 01:13 |
| #2 Put him up at the Roach Motel. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-17 00:32 |
| #1 Let him come. Just don't let him go back. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-03-17 00:19 |