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Iran To Retaliate If Attacked From US bases
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Posted on 06/10/2007 11:24:20 PM PDT by DTAD
Kuwait City: Iran warned on Sunday that it would strike US military bases in neighbouring Gulf states if they were used as staging posts to attack the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme. “We rule out the possibility that our neighbours... will allow the United States to use their territory in attacking Iran,” Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel told reporters during an official visit to Kuwait.
“But if this actually happens, we will be forced to defend ourselves... We will target those bases or points” used to attack Iran, he said.
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Iran seeks to spread ‘Ahmadinejad creed’
Peninsula Online ^ | 6/10/07 | Peninsula Online
Posted on 06/10/2007 10:10:43 PM PDT by freedom44
TEHRAN • A top aide to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has set up a special body to oversee the spread of the distinctive and often controversial philosophy of the Iranian president, media reported yesterday.
Ahmadinejad’s chief of staff Abdol Reza Sheikh-ol Eslami has appointed members of a “council to define and guard over the thought and works of the president,” according to Ham Mihan newspaper and the ISNA news agency.
Since coming to power in 2005 on a platform of restoring revolutionary values, Ahmadinejad has carved out a reputation as a deeply ideological president whose comments have been criticised abroad and sometimes inside Iran.
The 15-member council will include some of the hardline president’s closest aides, including government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham, Culture Minister Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi and his close advisor Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi.
His ideology, most clearly laid out in speeches at frequent public rallies in Iran’s provinces, is a distinctive mixture of religious rhetoric, assertions of Iran’s power and sharp attacks against Israel and the Western powers.
Most notoriously, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly predicted that Israel will disappear, calling for the Jewish state to be “wiped off the map” and last week saying a “countdown” had begun towards its destruction.
He has also dismissed the Holocaust as a “myth” and played down the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II, provoking an international outcry.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly described the West as the “bullying powers” whose time of superiority is ending as Islamic nations such as Iran step up their progress.
He has also been unrelenting in his defiance over Iran’s nuclear programme, which he has said is reaching the summit and compared to a train without brakes-a comment that caused ruffles inside Iran.
Ahmadinejad has spoken of his desire of creating a “Mahdaviat” society in Iran of love and justice that will pave the way for the return of the 12th imam.
“Iran is stronger than ever. The secret is to believe in God. Those who are for God are victorious,” he told reporters at a news conference last week.
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Sun. 11, 2007 5:21 | Updated Jun. 11, 2007 9:11
“Israel successfully launches Ofek 7 spy satellite overnight”
By YAAKOV KATZ
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In the face of Iran’s race to obtain nuclear weapons and predictions that war with Syria is on the horizon, Israel strengthened its foothold in space pre-dawn Monday and successfully launched a spy satellite, which defense officials said granted the IDF unprecedented operational capabilities.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Ofek 5 satellite is in an elliptical orbit that reportedly takes it over Iran, Iraq, and Syria once every 90 minutes.”
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“Security Restrictions Change Tour Bus Routes”
June 10, 2007 - 12:10pm
Hank Silverberg, WTOP Radio
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - If you have friends or relatives planning a trip to the region this summer you might want to tell them to bring their walking shoes, especially if they plan on taking a tour bus.
New security restrictions around Capitol Hill that went into effect Saturday will move tour bus routes farther away from the Capitol complex.
The U.S. Capitol Police say the new measures are precautionary and are not based on any known threats.
“Part of it comes from vehicle born improvised explosive devices,” said Capitol police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider. “If we can prevent that from moving the threats further away from the Capitol then we certainly will.””