Tue Aug 1, 2006 5:38 PM BST
TEHRAN (Reuters) - The United States and Britain are responsible for Israel's killing of civilians in Lebanon and should not be trusted with seats on the U.N. Security Council, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.
Israeli forces launched a massive offensive against Lebanon after Hizbollah kidnapped two of its soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. Most of the victims of the conflict have been Lebanese civilians.
Iran regularly blames Britain, as a creator of Israel, and the United States, as the state that bankrolls and protects it, for deaths in conflicts in the Middle East.
"They are not competent to be members of the Security Council or to have the power of veto ... They are criminals and should be put on trial," Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the northeastern town of Bojnurd.
Iran has accused the U.N. Security Council of acting illegally by demanding that Iran end its nuclear work or face the threat of sanctions. The West says it believes Iran is planning to build atomic warheads, a charge Tehran denies.
Ahmadinejad accused Israeli forces of being part of a British and U.S. plan to recreate a colonial Middle East.
"Are they humans? They are worse than the beasts. They are bloodthirsty savages," he said. "They have launched strikes from the ground, air and sea. Hospitals, schools, mosques and churches are not safe," he said of the Israeli attacks.
Although Iran armed and funded Hizbollah during the 1980s, Tehran now insists its support is purely charitable, moral and political. Israel says Hizbollah is using Iranian weaponry against it, particularly the hundreds of rockets Hizbollah has fired at northern Israel in the past three weeks.
They are getting their asses handed to them now....hahaha....all those white flags of retreat in Southern Lebanon.
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Ahmadinejad's version of Dream:
I want to rule the world today
America, just go away,
Whenever I try, you punch me in the eye,
so I dream.
When I think of the USA
I want it to go, go away,
O Mahdi come quick before I get sick
from my dream.
O can't you hear me cry,
Atomically I try
to dominate the Middle East
Only trouble Is
Gee Whiz,
The Israelis won't give me no peace
Israel stands in my way,
O Mahdi come quick, let be today,
Up from your well, so I can ring the bell
on my dream.
O can't you hear me cry,
Atomically I try
to dominate the Middle East
Only trouble Is
Gee Whiz,
The Israelis won't give me no peace