Nice choice of words, there, Khamenei. Got nuclear bombs on your mind?
From Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's policies of standing up to the United States have set off a "powerful bomb in the world of politics" bigger than the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday.The comments, carried by state television and radio, come amid prolonged tension between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear program. U.S. officials say Iran is trying to build an atom bomb but Tehran insists its plans are peaceful.
Iran has refused to halt sensitive nuclear work, despite U.S. threats to ratchet up pressure with new U.N. sanctions. Two rounds of sanctions have already been imposed since December.
"The political field of today's world is a complicated field with a great war of wills and policies ... It can be said that Iran has exploded a powerful bomb in the world of politics that is hundred times more powerful than the bomb the Americans exploded in Hiroshima," Khamenei was quoted as saying.
"Even Europeans are speechless before this oppressive America, but the Iranian nation by its actions and stances has placed a question mark over all the rules and principles of this oppressive power."
Freudian slip?
like most statements, this is a negative image of reality.
Simply switch the word America with Iran or Iranian and you'll have the positive image.
Fitting they use " Hiroshima " when speaking of the nuclear program.
Where the hell did the wests pride go? twas a time when even a fraction of the provocation and Retoric coming out of Iran would land a nation in a war.
I'm ashamed of our Western Dhimmie Govt's
i suppose when a million people or so are murdered we may grow a pair.
Envious bunch of psychopaths, aren't they?
Destroying all infidels is Islam's idea of "peaceful", so there is no contradiction between Iran's headlong plunge toward developing a Bomb and their claim of "peaceful" intentions.
The peace of the graveyard of the Infidels.
Iranian's seem so intent on adapting American nuclear technology (Hiroshima etc) to their primitive nation - why not sell these good folks plans for a Corning Glass factory in the middle of Tehran?
Bush, although his presidency has been emasculated, must not kowtow to this vile piece of flesh and bone. Undoubtedly, if the “please like us” Dems get into the Whitehouse”, we’re screwed.
Many believe this wanker doesn’t have both oars in the water… Hitler was judged the same. If this psycho isn’t given the full, blown treatment; WWII will seem like a, mere, skirmish.
"i suppose when a million people or so are murdered we may grow a pair."
Maybe so, but right now I think if it happened here no one but us would care, the rest of the world would say we brought it upon ourselves.
If it happens somewhere else we'll get blamed for that too.
With Muslim plans for the world,,,we can quit worrying about global warming as being something to worry about...
Ever the good guys, the US is giving the Iranian people until the 11th hour to topple their mad theocracy.
Who does it affect if we bomb the cr*p out of Iran today or tomorrow or the next day?
The Iranian people.
Let's hope they wise up ... because that 11th hour is approaching.
"...but the Iranian nation by its actions and stances has placed a question mark over all... rules and principles..."
Yep, they sure have!
Please, Mr. President: just one "Little Boy" or "Fat Man" to give Ahmadinejad & Khamenei a reference point?
"It can be said that Iran has exploded a powerful bomb in the world of politics that is hundred times more powerful than the bomb the Americans exploded in Hiroshima,"
Don't flatter yourself o deluded one. You and your regime are nothing more than facist thugs and you will meet the fate that all facist thugs do, an ignoble death. It's just a shame you will take a lot of your countrymen with you unless they w(r)ise up.
A stunning slap to both Eastern culture and Western culture. It makes the mind reel.
Does anyone know what this could possibly mean?
What Khamenei did is termed brinksmanship in telling the world in Islamic poetic terms that Iran has nuclear warheads which every government in Europe and America knows.
This is why Patriot batteries are lining eastern Europe, into Turkey and certain Middle East states.
This is the open secret of why no one has hit Iran, because they have in back channels told the west if they are hit they will respond with nuclear missiles.
This is why Chirac sounded so odd early last year in publically warning Iran it would be nuked. This is when Iran went operational with limited Shahab 3 missiles tipped with old SS warheads.
The problem in this is not shooting the Shahab down, but in literally their falling to the ground and detonating.
The IDF can knock the Shahabs down, but they will blow up Jordan.
The Turks and Europeans can knock down the the Shahabs but they will blow up former Soviet block states causing an international big boy war.
Khameini knows this and every time he gets vocal it means his masters in Moscow are in pillow talk support of him. The Islamocommunists are the oil bulwark against the west for Russia. Russia in the meantime occupies itself with degrading America and in intimidation of European states.
Russia as of last week was in all out cyber attack against the Balkans which are part of NATO.
These 10 to 20 megaton warheads are why Iran has been peeing in the punch with everyone acting like it is not happening.
I have written extensively on this in the objective phase in contaminating the region and knocking the oil fields out. People focus on jihad as the Russian intend, but the real war is progressing with assassinations, intimidation and literal acts of war by Russia on America and it's neighbors.
Khameini made no slips. This was deliberate in telling the world Iran's nuclear arsenal has just grown beyond purchased weapons.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is nothing but a windbag that needs to be silenced. for all those who keep harping on Bush you have sided with the democrats and split the country and Western world in your tantrums. hopefully Bush will keep his word as he has in the past, and prevent Iran from getting nukes.
Maybe so, but right now I think if it happened here no one but us would care, the rest of the world would say we brought it upon ourselves.
If it happens somewhere else we'll get blamed for that too.
Posted by: gaelen
They can say what they want and we'll be free to retaliate the way we want..
Surely they must know that we will nuke the daylights out of them if they try anything to deadly. I'd be in favor of giving them a small demonstration of our capabilities.
Unfortunately we may soon see a "why do they hate us" president like Hitlery or Obama-Osama.
By the way.. Lame Cherry.. get a juicier name and start working on a screenplay..
..you've got talent.. would be a shame if you don't make some money off of it.
"bigger than Hiroshima", eh?
Well, despite the play on words, at least this time they're being more honest this time in their ominous innuendos.
I guess Mahmoud and the mad mullahs think Nagi Saki is some kind of drink.
Like Zam-Zam water, only alcoholic.
I wish it were that lame...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2085195,00.html
Can you say TET offensive?
There is a difference between bravery and stupidity...I bet Khamenei does not know it. It's all the same to him...you think this guy ever did an honest days work in his life?
The jerk's choice of words was perfectly deliberate and intended just the way they sound, as a threat to bomb us.
And delivered, I might add, with perfect confidence that we will cower in fear and rush to kiss his nasty old pervert's bum. Encouraged, I also have no doubt, by the UK's response to kidnapping their sailors, Peloshia Galore's eagerness to kiss his rusty ring, and various other indications that there are Americans eager to talk things over in the hope of making nice.
NEWS FLASH FOR KHAMEINI ...
We know a bit about Hiroshima, here in the US.
And we know where you live.
You may have overlooked that there is another side to the silly US.
But don't worry. We haven't gone anywhere and we haven't forgotten you.
We've got a nice big fresh one with your name on it.
"i suppose when a million people or so are murdered we may grow a pair."
More than likely we will have documentary after documentary asking the question "Why do they hate us?"
Natuarally, we will be told that they are not at fault; WE are all the blame.
Finally, we will go back to the sports re-runs.
As long as there is plenty of beer and chips to pass around, and the stock prices rise over all --no one will really give a crap about a million people going up into nuclear vapor.
Besides, who ever is president will echo the same words that bush muttered after 9/11 -- islam is the religon of peace and we are not at war with islam; anyone harrassing islamics will be delt harshing with by the Feds as "hate" will not be tolerated in this country.
That, is probably what will actually happen.
"Bigger than Hiroshima"?
For god's sake, the bomb at Nagasaki a week later was bigger than the bomb used at Hiroshima. The Iranian government does not understand. It does not understand that there is no need to invade Iran, no potential "quagmire," no nothing. From planes, from missiles, the only threat that matters to Infidels -- which consists of that nuclear project, and not of Iranian Shi'a missionary efforts in Syria, nor Shi'a unrest in Bahrain or Lebanon or the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia or Yemen -- can be dealt with.
But only if the Americans get out, swiftly, from Iraq and, with their hostages to present Iranian scheming (including supplying more powerful explosives to Al Qaeda in Iraq), and future potential retaliation after such an attack on its nuclear facilities.
No need to weaken the Shi'a threat to Sunni Arabs. One wishes the Shi'a to hold onto Baghdad, and thereby to force the Sunnis to do whatever they can, as a matter of pride, to recover it. But the nuclear project can be destroyed without destroying all of Iran. What the Sunni Arabs want is not necessarily what is best for the Camp of Islam.
Stick only to that nuclear project and not to undong all of Shi'a Islam. In Iraq the Shi'a have essentially won. They can afford even to supply Al Qaeda in Iraq, which regards the Shi'a as "Rafidite dogs," with weaponry. For that weaponry will be used against the Americans. And the Iranians want the Americans out, at this point, because they are certain that they, the Iranians and the local Shi'a, will be able to deal with their enemy Al Qaeda.
And Al Qaeda in Iraq similarly thinks that once the Americans are gone they, together with Sunnis in Iraq (the remains of Saddam Hussein's make-my-day day), and Sunni aid from outside Iraq, will prevail.
One of them will, in the very long run, be proven right. But ideally, and most likely, a low-level simmering war will continue for many years, years in which we, the Infidels, can recover our sanity, stop squandering our resources and realize that the best outcome for us, in Iraq, is that internal low-level (or high-level) warfare, and that our "victory" was the exact opposite of that which the Bsuh Administration defined as "victory" and that was always both unattainable and, for Infidels, unhelpful.
In the process of Bombing Iraq's Nuclear sites you will have no choice but to put the rest of the Country down.
You may start out by rendering some of the real Juicy targets useless but the Iranian Government will never let it rest.
At this stage, it is not the Nuclear Facilities that are the immediate threat. It is the weapon systems that are capable of delivering what they may already have, as well as what they can operate to prevent us from reaching our Goals.
The Iranians know they have but one chance for a Tet like gamble.
Can the Conventional beating Iran will take outlast our own MSM screaming.
To what purpose did the Demonicly controlled Congress debate the policy to be employed in Iraq other than to inform the Enemy of our Battle Plans?
Exactly.
As I have said many times before here, the way out of this mess is to detonate an Electro Magnetic Impulse Weapon over Iran's airspace, which will leave Iran's fanatical lunatics in power unable to deploy ANY weapons of mass destruction anywhere.
Will anyone in the US governmment get their finger out of their nozzles before it is too late??? I wish I knew.
Maybe we can persuade Israel to take care of this, as Bush doesn't seems to have retreated permanently into the kingdom of wuss...
Hugh sez: our "victory" was the exact opposite of that which the Bsuh Administration defined as "victory" and that was always both unattainable and, for Infidels, unhelpful.
Bush would not know victory if it hit him upside his head. He should have won the war when he won it, and left then, with a job well done. Now there are really no good choices. Since getting out would mean saving coalition/American lives, I have no objection to that if we dont look like losers doing it, and we secure Iraq oil fields. I dont mean guard them, I mean take them. Maybe when Iraq gets its sht together they can have the oil back and maybe not... I dont buy the fight them there rather than here routine. We are already, and increasingly, fighting them here.
Or rather, they are fighting us here, and we hardly respond if at all. They are fighting us with law, lawsuits, elections, and legislation, with taqyya, kitman, feigned victimhood, political manuvering and violence. There have been at least nine terrorist acts by one or two jihadists going on thier own(?) jihads. The chickens are going to come home to roost. When they do, we should shoot them...dead chickens dont do jihad...