Posted on 06/30/2005 10:30:49 PM PDT by truth_seeker
Iran's president-elect has proclaimed an Islamic revolution of global proportions.
Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election coincided with what he termed a new Islamic revolution.
"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world," Ahmadinejad said. "In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years." Ahmadinejad, who did not elaborate, was speaking to the families of those killed in a 1981 attack at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, Middle East Newsline reported.
The Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the nation's missile and nuclear weapons programs, and has been identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The 49-year-old Ahmadinejad, who participated in the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Teheran, in 1979, was regarded as the most anti-Western of the presidential candidates. On June 24, he defeated Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who headed the Expediency Council, the regime's watchdog over what had been a reformist-dominated parliament. "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. "The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end."
The speech marked the first time since the late 1980s that an Iranian president vowed to export Islamic insurgency throughout the world. Allies of Ahmadinejad said the president-elect, who takes office in August, would seek to revive the principles of the Islamic revolution in 1978. They said Ahmadinejad would also seek to impose Islamic behavior in public, including strict enforcement of a dress code.
"Islamic and revolutionary culture have been neglected in the past years," Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad Taqi Rahbar said.
Iran has been cited as the leading financier of groups that appear on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations. Iran's leading clients have been the Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both sponsored by Teheran, as well as Hamas and the Syrian-aligned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
This guy may be a setup to discredit democracy in the middle east. The mullahs can take him out of the picture with a bunch of blather about how people can't be trusted to vote for the best man.
Then they go back to the IAEA and say that they are entirely in compliance now that the "moderates" are back in control.
As clever as the guys at the top are.....I am thinking that may just be the game.....they are very calculating!!!!
They know we do have an excess of Nuclear Weapons.....and they do not!!!
And this President elect is giving us a Very Severe Case of Itchy Trigger Finger....
I wonder if Bill will survive it!
Remember, Bill has that "humbility" thing working for him...
Let them revel in their glee. It will be short-lived. G.W. Bush does not take this kind of in-your-face arrogance lightly, and if this terrorist scum thinks the Israelis have softened to the point of allowing Iran to go nuclear, he has one last think coming.
"In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years."
A reference to 9/11?
Too many Americans in the region for that.
Let's MOAB his compound and get him and all of his henchmen. That thing needs a good test.
Daytime here, but more like 5 or 6pm there.
Will we see this on ABC tonight?
"Iran's mullahs could not have been clearer in selecting this terrorist to be the international face of their country: it intends to build bombs and use them."
- This guys election and subsequent threats have cleared the last remaining hurdle that Israel needed before striking and obliterating Iran's nuclear program. Up to now, I think Israel was constrained by the false hope that the Iranian's would elect someone that could be reasoned with. No more. This fanatics aim is clear. To produce atomic weapons and deliver them to terrorists to strike at Israel and the US - not necessarily in that order.
I predict an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities within the year and (hopefully) when these kooks "retaliate" Bush will be only to happy to unleash the 150,000 troops stationed right on their border. Whose going to object - the UN, Syria, the Democrats? You can bet all three.
I would add, 'also' in danger, and substitute muzzies for terrorist. No muzzies, no terrorism. No terrorism, no muzzies. Cause and effect.
Hopefully the dems will find some candidates with some national defense cred. They will be in power again at some point and it would be better if they could be relied on to defend America.
Apparently the guy in the circle is dead.
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