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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
West plotting to disrupt Iran's 'calmness'
2012-10-16
[Al Ahram] Iran's enemies seek to disrupt the "calmness" in the country through economic confrontation, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday in an address delivered in the northeastern city of Shirvan.
The fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
speech comes as the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
is about to ratchet up sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear drive and as an oil embargo by the United States and EU begins to impact on the Islamic republic's economy.

"I am asking officials in the judiciary, executive and legislative branches to be watchful so the the illwishers (Western powers) are not able to disrupt the calmness in the country with their plots," Khamenei said his address, which was broadcast live on television.

"With God's grace, as was the case in other issues which the enemies were not able to do anything, they can do no damn thing in their economic confrontation with our people," he added.

Khamenei urged Iranian officials to focus on economic issues that the "enemies" want to use to weaken Iran. Last Wednesday, the supreme leader railed against the sanctions, labelling them as "barbaric."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Iran El Supremo Ayatollah Khameini doing Sutherland's "Oddball" from KELLY's HEROES???

D *** NG IT, AMERIKA, DON'T HIT US WID DEM NEGATIVE WAVES SO EARLY IN THE MORNING!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-10-16 00:24  

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