Iran's President goes off the deep end

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It sends chills down my spine knowing this madman has near-nuclear capabilities. It is inevitable that he will attack Israel, in my opinion.

Iran's demented policy of regional Islamic domination and annihilation of the Sunni's...

London-Based Syrian-Born Historian Mahmoud Al-Sayyed Al-Dugheim: Iran Established Global Shiite Government, Operating in Accordance with the Protocols of the Mullahs of Qom, to Annihilate the Sunnis
The following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian-born historian Mahmoud Al-Sayyed Al-Dugheim, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 30, 2007.

Mahmoud Al-Sayyed Al-Dugheim: "We consider the Zionist plan to be dangerous to the Arab nation, but even more dangerous is the Safavid Sassanian Iranian plan to restore the Empire of Cyrus, which would range from Greece to Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula, in addition to other regions. The Zionist plan was unable to penetrate the ranks of Islamic unity, the way the Safavid Iranian plan did. The collaborators with the Zionists throughout the Arab and Islamic world are too ashamed to reveal themselves, while the collaborators with the Sassanian Safavid plan boast about it in public. Wasn't it one of their leaders who said yesterday: 'We are a Lebanon in Iran, and an Iran in Lebanon?'"

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"While the Zionist plan targets Jerusalem, which is holy to us, the Safavid plan targets Mecca and Al-Madina. If you go back to their books - which they do not mention in the media, yet these books exist and are accepted by them - they claim that their Hidden Imam will come to Mecca and Al-Madina, destroy the Al-Haram Mosque and the Mosque of the Prophet, and dig in the graves of Abu Bakr and Omar and burn them both, and then he will command the wind to blow them away. He will also dig in the grave of Aisha, the Mother of the Believers, and will execute her. All this is part of their plan."

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"The Shah was most definitely one of the sworn enemies of the Arabs, but he did not legislate a law to persecute the Sunni Muslims, who constitute one-third of the Iranian population. The new Iranian constitution persecutes Sunni Muslims in Iran, while it gives constitutional rights to the Zoroastrians, the Jews, and the Christians. This constitution denies the Sunnis these rights. There is no Sunni mosque in Tehran, even though there are over two million Sunni Muslims there."

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Iran intellectuals turn on Ahmadinejad
26 Feb. 2007 - Conservatives, reformers denounce harsh rhetoric on nuclear program

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced a new round of sharp criticism at home Monday after he said Iran’s nuclear program is an unstoppable train without brakes. Reformers and conservatives said such tough talk only inflames the West as it considers further sanctions.

The criticism came even as new signs have arisen that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is growing discontented with Ahmadinejad, whom he is believed to have supported in 2005 presidential elections.

Last week, Khamenei voiced rare criticism of the domestic performance of Ahmadinejad’s government, and the president was notably absent when a group of Cabinet members and vice presidents met with Khamenei, who has the final word in all political affairs in Iran, including the nuclear issue.

Growing concerns

China calls on Iran to cooperate with IAEA
Tue Mar 6, 2007 - China called on Iran on Tuesday to step up its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, as world powers raise pressure on Tehran to curtail its nuclear program.

But Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing repeated China's line that dialogue and negotiation should be favored over sanctions to urge Iran to rein in its nuclear program, which the West fears could be used to make weapons. China is facing pressure from Washington and other Western capitals to back a stronger U.N. Security Council resolution against Iran. "We hope all international efforts will be conducive to the early resumption of diplomatic negotiation to resolve the Iran nuclear issue," Li told a news conference on the sidelines of China's parliament. "Any actions taken by the United Nations should be conducive to the promotion of regional stability."

Iran rejects suspicions that it is trying to master nuclear bomb technology under the cover of a civilian atomic energy program, saying it only wants to generate electricity. But six world powers, including China, are wrangling over a stronger resolution against Iran after it ignored a February 21 deadline set under an earlier resolution for it to stop uranium enrichment.

Iran's failure to clear up concerns about its nuclear activities set it apart from all other nations, Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Monday. Tehran says it is being treated unfairly, and has characterized U.N. sanctions as a U.S.-led campaign to stunt its economic development and topple its government.

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Iran gettin' sassy...

Iran: UN Technical Aid Cuts Will Not Affect Uranium Enrichment Work
08 March 2007 - Iran's envoy to the United Nations nuclear agency says sharp cuts in technical aid projects to Tehran will not affect the country's uranium enrichment work.

Ali Asghar Soltanieh says Iran's sensitive nuclear work will continue as planned under the safeguards of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA. He says the cuts are not related to Iran's enrichment program. Soltanieh spoke after the IAEA's 35-nation board decided Thursday to freeze or curb nearly half of its more than 50 aid projects to Iran, out of concern Tehran may be trying to build nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian nuclear program.

The IAEA's move follows a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in December that bans transfers of aid and technology related to Iran's nuclear activity and missile projects. The resolution demanded that Iran suspend its uranium enrichment work within 60 days, but Tehran ignored the measure.

Officials from Germany and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China - have been discussing additional sanctions on Iran. The United States and its Western allies suspect that Iran is working to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies.

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Nuclear watchdog cuts aid to Iran
March 08, 2007 - THE UN atomic watchdog agency has approved a cut of almost half its aid programs to Iran as part of sanctions to get Tehran to allay fears it seeks nuclear weapons, diplomats have said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors was approving cuts in technical aid already made following a UN Security Council resolution adopted December 23. The resolution imposed sanctions on Iran for continuing to enrich uranium and called for reductions in the IAEA's aid to the Iranian nuclear program.

Developing nations are concerned that politically motivated reductions could set a precedent that could hurt their aid projects but are backing the cuts on the recommendation of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, diplomats said. Non-aligned states on the IAEA board will issue "a very mundane statement that the agency's secretariat has interpreted the Security Council resolution and the NAM has not a problem with this", a non-aligned diplomat said.

Iranian ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh said yesterday that "all developing countries are worried ... that a non-technical body outside the IAEA is dictating about the nuclear technology and technological cooperation of the IAEA." German ambassador Peter Gottwald, speaking for the EU of which Germany is the current president, told the board that nations clearly have a right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

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Time for Fearless W to get out his can o' WD-Regime Change...

Bolton says regime change only answer in Iran
Monday 26th March, 2007 - A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says only regime change will cause Iran to halt its nuclear program.

Ambassador John Bolton spoke one day after the U.N. Security council voted to impose new sanctions on Tehran for refusing to stop enriching uranium. Bolton says the Security Council resolution is a "useful" measure but will not, by itself, force Iran to shelve its nuclear ambitions. "Iran has made it clear they are going to continue to pursue their 20-year-long effort to get nuclear weapons," he said. "I think they have shown their determination to resist the Security Council, and there is no sign that these resolutions are making them back away from that."

The former ambassador spoke on CNN's Late Edition program. The Security Council resolution, which was approved unanimously, bans Iranian arms sales and freezes the assets of people and organizations tied to the country's nuclear program. It follows another resolution, approved in December, which banned countries from supplying materials and technology to Iran that could be used to further the country's nuclear and missile development programs.

Tehran scoffed at the December measure, and reacted similarly to the most recent resolution. Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that suspension of nuclear activities "is neither an option nor a solution." Meanwhile, the European Union's top foreign policy official, Javier Solana, has expressed hope for a resumption of talks with Iran aimed at a negotiated settlement of the nuclear impasse. But Ambassador Bolton says he is skeptical that any amount of diplomatic pressure will convince Iran to change course.

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China, Russia put more pressure on Iran
Leaders issue joint statement urging Tehran to abide by U.N. demands
March 26, 2007

MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and China on Monday called on Iran to fulfill the U.N. Security Council’s demands over its disputed nuclear program — a sign of impatience from Iran’s two closest allies over its continued defiance. The joint call from Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao came a day after Iran announced it was partially suspending cooperation with the International Aromic Energy Agency in response to the latest Security Council sanctions — a decision the United States said was a “step in the wrong direction.”

Iran insisted it was not aiming to escalate the standoff with its partial suspension, which truncates the time period in which it will notify the U.N. about new nuclear projects. “Iran is not after adventurism. It does not want to violate international measures,” said Kazem Jalali, the spokesman of parliament’s committee on foreign policy and national security.

In their joint statement, Putin and Hu said their countries — permanent, veto-wielding Security Council members — were ready to “search for a comprehensive, long-term and mutually acceptable solution to the Iranian nuclear problem.” They also emphasized that the increasingly tense dispute should be resolved “exclusively through peaceful means.” Russia and China have significant trade ties with Iran and have used their veto power to push for less stringent sanctions against their ally. That stance has often put them at odds with the other veto powers, the United States, Britain and France, which favor a tougher approach to the nuclear dispute.

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Time for Fearless W to get out his can o' WD-Regime Change...

Lol, Thats a good one.

I don't see how much futher that country can go, They have just about every major country in the world breathing down there necks.

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Iran threatenin' the 7th fleet...

Iran missiles 'can hit Gulf warships'
August 16, 2007 - IRANIAN missiles can hit warships operating anywhere in the Gulf and Oman Sea, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said today, the day US officials said they might label his forces "terrorists".

But the speech by Commander-in-Chief Yahya Rahim Safavi, according to a report carried by Iran's Fars News Agency, made no mention of the US threat to brand his units. “Our coast-to-sea missile systems can now reach the breadth and length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea and no warships can pass in the Persian Gulf without being in range of our coast-to-sea missiles,” Cmdr Safavi said.

Iran, locked in a standoff with Washington over its nuclear plans, has previously boasted it had missiles that could sink “big warships” in the Gulf, a region where US aircraft carriers and warships operate. The US is seeking to isolate Iran over what it says is Tehran's bid to build nuclear weapons under cover of a civilian nuclear program.

Iran insists its atomic plans are directed at making electricity to preserve its oil and gas for exports. Cmdr Safavi also said Iran's missiles with a range of 2000km were fitted with equipment that enabled them to be remote controlled, an apparent reference to the Shahab-3 missile, although he did not name it. That missile could hit Israel.

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Iran: Israel Is "Standard Bearer Of Satan"
Aug. 18, 2007 - Iran's President Ahmadinejad Says The Jewish State Will Soon Fall Apart

Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that Israel was the standard bearer of Satan and the Jewish state would soon fall apart, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday. The agency quoted Ahmadinejad as he spoke at a religious conference and did not elaborate on what he meant by Satan. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, however, Iran has regularly referred to the United States as "the Great Satan."

"The Zionist regime is the standard bearer of invasion, occupation and Satan," he said, predicting Israel's eventual demise. "When the philosophy behind the establishment of a regime is in question, it is not unlikely that it will find itself on a course of decline and dissolution." Ahmadinejad has made anti-Israel comments in the past.

In October 2005, he caused outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel's "Zionist regime should be wiped off the map." His supporters have argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated and should have been better translated as "vanish from the pages of time" — implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.

Iran: Israel Is "Standard Bearer Of Satan", Iran's President Ahmadinejad Says The Jewish State Will Soon Fall Apart - CBS News

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Iran's nuclear case is closed: President Ahmadinejad
28 Aug 2007, Iran has "closed" the issue of international concerns over its nuclear programme through its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

"Not one member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has cooperated as well as Iran," a typically defiant Ahmadinejad told a Tehran news conference. "So from our point of view, Iran's nuclear case is closed. Iran is a nuclear nation and has the nuclear fuel cycle," he said. His comments came after Iran and the IAEA announced last week that they had agreed a detailed timetable for Tehran to answer outstanding questions about its atomic drive. However the United States dismissed the plan, saying it had "real limitations".

"We are going in the right direction (with the IAEA). I do not think that anyone will be able to interfere in this," said Ahmadinejad. Brushing off Western threats of a third set of UN sanctions against Tehran, Ahmadinejad added: "We are not concerned about the activities of one or two countries. "Let this path (with the IAEA) continue. Do not ruin it or you yourself will lose out," he said. Ahmadinejad added that any Western threats of military action against Tehran would have no effect on its nuclear ambitions.

"I want to tell them they found out that using force against Iran would not work. The Iranian people are united, they believe in God, they believe in the reappearance of the Mahdi (the Shiite hidden imam the anniversary of whose birth was marked on Tuesday)," he added. Iran has said that as part of its cooperation with the IAEA it has already cleared up questions about its experiments with plutonium, a potential atom bomb material.

The United States accuses Iran -- OPEC's number two oil producer and owner of the second largest proven gas reserves in the world -- of seeking to make nuclear weapons under the guise of a civilian energy drive. Iran insists that the drive is entirely peaceful and that its growing population will need nuclear power as fossil fuels start to run dry.

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Bush warns of 'holocaust' if Iran gets nukes
29 Aug 2007, US President George W Bush on Monday warned that letting Iran acquire atomic weapons risked putting the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."

"Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust," he told a veterans group here.

Bush's speech to the American Legion aimed to convince a war-weary US public that the war in Iraq was the central front in the fight against what he described as the Sunni Muslim extremism of the Al-Qaida terrorist network and the Shiite extremism fuelled by Iran.

"Iran's actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran's regime to impose economic sanctions. We will confront this danger before it is too late," he said. Tehran denies seeking nuclear weapons and says that its atomic program means to provide civilian power.

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