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"The world will see the anger of the Islamic world against this regime." Oh, we've seen it before. And I wonder: how many of those who are planning to turn out would prefer to be at an anti-mullahocracy demonstration if such wouldn't put them in line for torture and death? From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranians will hold massive demonstrations Friday to back their president in the face of international criticism of his remarks that Israel should be destroyed, Iran's foreign minister said.Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday the demonstrations will take place in Tehran and other parts of the country to mark al-Quds Day — the annual event when Iranians protest Israel's control over Jerusalem.
"The world will see the anger of the Islamic world against this regime," state-run television quoted him as telling ambassadors from Islamic countries. He added that the "Zionist regime is illegitimate."
On Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told students that Israel should be destroyed. In a speech, Ahmadinejad also said a new wave of Palestinian attacks against Israel "will wipe this stigma from the face of the Islamic world."
He then cited the founder of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and said: "Israel must be wiped off the map."...
In 1979, Khomeini declared the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as an international day of struggle against Israel and for the liberation of Jerusalem.
Posted by Robert at October 27, 2005 4:41 PM
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should focus his attention on his ability to survive in a country that really does want him President. He stole the election and now he wants to bring destruction upon his people. He does not speak for the majority of the Iranian people. He only speaks for the radical clergy of Iran.
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at October 27, 2005 5:13 PM
http://www.well.com/user/eob/poetry/The_Second_Coming.html
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
at October 27, 2005 6:04 PM
Ah yes, but that radical clergy holds the purse of power as they have for the last 25 years as well as the upcoming nuclear wildcard. And the latter represents an existential threat to Israel.
A good question to ask is why the US Administration is not doing more to support the Iranian people and dissent groups in their quest to rid Iran of the mullahs and their toxic Arab supremacism.
Posted by: Charles Martel at October 27, 2005 6:09 PM
Um... having a little acid flashback, Carolyn? Groovy.
*********************************************
I KNOW that someone in Iran is reading this.
If Israel is nuked by Iran, Iran will disappear under a blanket of nukes from Israel AND America (Lesser and Great Satan to you, douchebag.) Actually, we'll probably just nuke a nice little hundred-mile-wide "fallout zone" along the Pakistani and/or Afghani and/or Iraqi borders. That way, when what's left of Iran becomes the New Israel, and all the Iranians are kicked out, Israel will be perfectly safe from invasion for 10,000 years or so.
Every time an Iranian prick rattles his little sabre at Israel and America, we aim 10 MORE I.C.B.M.s at Iran. We really don't need to aim them at Russia any more. So where to you think they are pointing now?
So NUKE AWAY, asshat. The Israelis have fallout shelters, decontamination kits, radiation poisoning kits, gas masks, everything they need to survive anything other than a direct hit. Sure, you'll kill a million or so, but a million or so will survive.
Israel will RUIN all the parts of you they don't want and have the rest handed to them by the UN, who will by then be sympathetic to Israel (and if they aren't America will do it for them.)
Then: No More Iran. Ever. The Israeli "settlers" of "palestine" will be moved at YOUR expense from their 20-acre farms in Israel to 1000-acre farms in Used-to-be-Iran. I think Tehran will look nice when all the minarets have Star of David flags on them.
Wow... a world without Iran. I can hardly wait.
LOL... EVERY time a pigmonkey that claims to be a leader of Iran calls for the destruction of Israel is another excuse for Israel to knock out your nuke factory. So if they do, don't look for any condemnation.
I hope, hope, hope that the secular revolution hits Iran soon.... the college kids of Iran are clamouring for Coca Cola, bluejeans, rap music, hotdogs, baseball, tight bluejeans, etc. RISE UP, youth of Iran and save your once-proud nation from the curse of Islamic craziness...before it's too late.
Posted by: kj at October 27, 2005 6:34 PM
from Debka..., try out the latest laser tech...knock this sukah out!>
Iran launches its first space satellite after repeated delays
October 27, 2005, 12:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Sina-1, a joint project with Russia, blasted off aboard a Russian Kosmos 3M rocket from Plesetsk in northern Russia Thursday, Oct. 27. It carried a telecommunications system and cameras with intelligence surveillance capabilities.
at October 27, 2005 6:40 PM
No kj, never dropped acid in my life. Definitely never a hippie.
Posted by: Carolyn2 at October 27, 2005 6:48 PM
"Iranians will hold mass demonstrations on Friday to back their president"
Oh! my, we are all shivering in our boots. Who gives a pigs shit about these demonstrations. Iranians be better beware, not to over step the line and have themselves annihilated.
at October 27, 2005 7:27 PM
Ahmadinejad is an idiot for several reasons but in all truth we can't even blame him for his recent outburst. He probably expected the dhimmi press to overlook the paranoia of the Middle East's leadership (a paranoia that MEMRI has been collecting for some time now).
A conventional war against Iran would be a lot harder than any of the Iraq wars. For starters, the terrain is a lot more rugged and the Iranians are a lot more fanatic. On the other hand, a war could weaken the position of the Iranians that are fed up of the mullahcracy, which may very well explain the Iranian president's words.
Do you want to know what will REALLY happen? Nothing. At the very worst, if the UN actually moves a finger against Iran and if the Iranian president's position becomes to weakened inside his own regime, he may suffer some sort of lethal "accident"/"Zionist assassination" (depending on their mood).
In the end, nothing will change. Not until the free world starts supporting the tens of thousands of Iranian expats that have been ready to fight to free their country for the last two and a half decades. Allied air power may give them a help, but the fight on the ground must be done by the Iranians themselves. And when that time arrives - and it will arrive, rest assured - the Ahmadinejads, the Rafsanjanis, the Khameneis and all the other decrepit clerics will be the ones hanging from the gallows.
Posted by: cruzado at October 27, 2005 7:56 PM
Saving Iranians from the Mullahs will take leadership from the US. The UN is a proven failure.
There are many ways to destroy their evil power, the Soviet Union impailled on itself. I think Iran will do the same. The US,Britain ,etc. need to identify
Iranians brave enough to go back into their country and conduct stratergies to destroy their military
nuclear capabilities. Starting points can gain entry via the Iraq borders. l am sure there are many other ways to bring about both political and military changes.
at October 27, 2005 8:16 PM
carolyn2,
Yea, William Butler Yeats
One of my favorite poets
one of the greats!
at October 27, 2005 8:28 PM
"Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday the demonstrations will take place in Tehran and other parts of the country to mark al-Quds Day — the annual event when Iranians protest Israel's control over Jerusalem."
Gee... nothing like providing a rich target enviornment
at October 27, 2005 9:50 PM
Ahmadinejad's threat is one of impotent rage.
He means what he says, but can't do anything about it.
Pay attention: Iran has a long border with Iraq, and there are lots of Shi'ites in Iraq that Iran would like to help by moving Iranian troops across the border into Iraq. This is easy math. So why has it not happened?
BECAUSE INCURSION HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN. The back-channels at the State Department have been used to tell Iran that the USA will not tolerate ANY such interference--that any incursion will be completely destroyed and IRAN WILL BE PUNISHED.
This has put Ahmadinejad on the spot. He MUST now talk tough publicly to appease his own hotheads, and make it appear that he is not backing down to the infidels.
Ahmadinejad's threat is an invitation to other hard-line moslem states. He is raising the ante in the only way he can. The recent go-round with the EU over his nuclear plans did not have the desired effect.
I am not saying that Iran's threat is hollow or empty. Ahmadinejad does mean what he says. He simply does not have the ability to do anything now, or for the foreseeable future.
As far as helping the opposition is concerned, the United States will not get much involved. The Iranian regime is opaque and we cannot see inside well enough to accomplish anything. Russia could, but she will not do anything either because her commercial interests in remaining neutral or friendly with Iran outweigh whatever we presently have to offer them.
The country to watch now is Israel. If she is true to form she will either remain silent or make a lukewarm response through the Foreign Ministry. If the response is harsher, then watch for the followthrough, which will be THE important message.
Posted by: texan at October 28, 2005 12:19 AM
The clock is ticking away, something bad is going to happen soon. I feel it in my bones, and I just cant escape the feeling that soon, many millions will die, simply because we are not willing to do something now.
Posted by: Sharku at October 28, 2005 1:36 AM
After the joos, it`ll be the hindoos.
Posted by: leavingtheleft at October 28, 2005 1:45 AM
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