Syria Backs Nuclear Iran

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-20-2006 | Patrick Bishop

[blam]

Syria backs a nuclear Iran

By Patrick Bishop in Damascus
(Filed: 20/01/2006)

Syria yesterday backed Iran in its nuclear confrontation with the West as their leaders met in Damascus in a defiant show of solidarity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, welcomed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said the Iranian leader had the right to acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. In turn, Mr Ahmadinejad asserted his host's right to freedom from foreign interference.

Both men face confontations with the United Nations Security Council. The West is pushing for the International Atomic Energy Agency to refer Teheran to the council over its work on enriching uranium, which Europe and America fear is intended for use in nuclear weapons.

Mr Assad's regime is under intense scrutiny after a UN report implicated senior figures in the assassination last year of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.

The meeting came as Mr Ahmadinejad's government warned the West that the world would face an oil crisis if Iran was referred to the council and sanctions followed. "One of the consequences will be the unleashing of a crisis in the oil sector and particularly a price hike," said Davoud Danesh-Jafari, the oil minister.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Mahmoud Hitler Ahmadinejad and Bashar Mussolini al-Assad

[Lejes Rimul]

Yes, the true leaders who led to the election of Shia Islamists closely allied to Iran in Iraq, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and Hamas in Gaza. Tell me again how you're helping us win the War on Terror by letting terrorists get elected?

[Lejes Rimul]

Would you like a Mail?

[sheik yerbouty]

My father was in the ETO and said that it took over a year to "mop up".

[Treader]

You haven't been shy on this thread, as to your pov and per your brandished tag-line. So, since you have kindly asked- no, please present your view here on the thread. Thanks.

[M. Espinola]

A suicide terrorist from Iranian & Syrian supported Islamic Jihad detonated his terrorism explosive charge in southern Tel Aviv at approximately 3:45PM, injuring 15 people, while at the same time Iran's Ahmadinejad was meeting with Syria's Assad in Damascus. Nothing in the Middle-East happens by accident.

No one was killed in the attack, but 31 were wounded, 13 of them were still hospitalized as of Friday morning & one Israeli is in moderate-to-serious condition.

Read about one Israel directly in the bomb blast 'My miracle escape'

Mofaz says Tel Aviv bombing was funded by Iran

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad(R) and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad review the honor guard at Damascus airport. On Lebanon, Assad said Syria and Iran wanted stability there but stressed "the need to support the resistance" to Israel, in reference to the radical Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.(AFP/SANA)

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, centre right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, centre left. review an honour guard at the Ash Shaeb presidential palace in Damascus Thursday Jan. 19, 2006. Syria on Thursday backed ally Iran in its confrontation with the West over its nuclear program, saying critics have provided no convincing argument to deny Tehran the technology. The Syrian support came at a summit of the nation's two presidents to coordinate policies and consolidate their alliance under the shadow of U.S. pressure and the threat of international sanctions against both.(AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).

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Military targets required for participating 'Allied' air forces have already been calculated.

[Lejes Rimul]

Well, I'm touched you think so highly of my - admittedly, well-informed - opinion. It's good to know I have fans.

We went into Iraq in part to ensure that the heart of the Middle East did not remain under the domination of an odious dictator, yet our policies from April 2003 are guaranteeing precisely the continued domination of Iraq by dictatorship, Iranian rather than Saddamite. Supporting an Iraqi government run by Shia Islamists is enabling Iran to become regional hegemon; Iran's current audacity about its nuclear program is in large part because we depend on its proxies and our hands are tied in Iraq.

Immediately after World War II, Patton wanted to rearm two divisions of Waffen SS and incorporate them into the Third U.S. Army. Once the Nazis were destroyed, he never took his eyes off the real enemies: the totalitarian Soviet empire. Patton said, "We can drive the Red Army back to Russia. With my Germans, we are capable of doing it." Get it?

[Treader]

That was a great summary of material you have already covered in this thread. My question to you was/ still is- "What should the US do next?"

[endthematrix]

"Iran's current audacity about its nuclear program is in large part because we depend on its proxies..."

That would be EU...

They and the Security Council sway way more US favor than recent Iraqi elections, lol!

[Lejes Rimul]

I just answered your question. It's not my fault if you're too obtuse to see it.

[endthematrix]

It's either retreat or engage. Like the MSM, Lejes Rimul got an anti-Bush spin no matter what.

[truth_seeker]

"I want to know why we didn't expand into Iran and/or Syria two years ago. Why just patch one of the holes in a boat that's leaking in several places?"

Taking it one step at a time. Need for Iraq to be able to handle their terrorists mostly by themselves.

Israel and the US aren't the only ones against nukes in Iran. In time, perhaps even Saudi Arabia would support toppling an agressive Iran.

[Treader]

...you do the hokey-pokey and you shake it all around, and that's what it's all about!... Yes indeed, you're a real hard read.

[Left2Right]

Surrender all base. All you base belong to us.

[DoNotDivide]

Obviously, age and experience don't equate to wisdom as you have so aptly made apparent. Good work old boy.

[DoNotDivide]

I wouldn't doubt it. I didn't know the date was settled on the 15th. I wonder if it's too late for them to decide on the Yuan instead?

[fragrant abuse]

I think he's saying we should arm a Sunni Iraqi army to send against Iran.

Correct?

Which is about the silliest thing I've read on FR for quite some time.

[Convert from ECUSA]

I see that we have pictures of the Hitler and Mussolini of the 21st Century. What a couple of rodents! I don't think it is coincidence that the bombing in Tel Aviv happened during the meeting between the 21st Century Haman and his Syrian lap dog.

[M. Espinola]

That's right, this heinous act of highly organized terror was timed in the most diabolical way to coincide exactly with the two Mohammedan beasts meeting in Damascus, shared international, jihadist terrorist headquarters - with Tehran.

The new PM's response to this attempt at mass murder, which did injury over 30 Israelis, must equal the this fiendish crime against humanity.

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[pissant]

Indeed.