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Top Iranian Cleric Warns US Not to Designate Guards as Terrorists
Voice of America ^ | 17 August 2007 | VOA News

Posted on 08/17/2007 8:46:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Iranian revolutionary guard (file photo)
Iranian revolutionary guard (file photo)
A top Iranian cleric has warned the United States during a live radio broadcast not to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.

In Friday's sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said "fugitive counter-revolutionaries" were pushing the United States into a confrontation that would prove to be what he called a "quagmire" with no exit.

He said that if the United States labeled the Guards a terrorist organization, it would be a matter of pride.

The conservative cleric is a member of the Assembly of Experts, which selects Iran's supreme leader.

This week, U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told news agencies the Bush Administration may soon designate the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

Washington has accused Iran of arming insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If the United States declares the Guards to be a terrorist group, it would cut off the group from the U.S. financial system and restrict the movement of its leaders.  The United States has never taken such a step against the armed forces of a sovereign country.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had caused international controversy over his anti-Israeli remarks and his hard-line stance in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.

In remarks this week, another senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Sharoudi, criticized President Ahmadinejad after he unexpectedly replaced Iran's oil and industry ministers.  Sharoudi, who is Iran's judiciary chief, said changing managers and ministers would not improve anything.  Mr. Ahmadinejad has been facing internal criticism for his management of the economy and high inflation.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 08/17/2007 8:46:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
In Friday's sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said "fugitive counter-revolutionaries" were pushing the United States into a confrontation that would prove to be what he called a "quagmire" with no exit.

Wow..wonder where he got that from..I wonder if the dems ever truly understand the aid and comfort they give our enemies..or their hatred of anything Bush truly clouds their minds..

2 posted on 08/17/2007 8:51:09 PM PDT by BerniesFriend
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To: BerniesFriend

What are they going to do about it? Start smuggling in IED’s?


3 posted on 08/17/2007 8:57:23 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

These guys are really very funny. They don’t want us to call a “military” unit terrorists. However, they call us the “Great Satan” or is it the “Lesser Satan.” I get confused by their rhetoric at times.

I think labeling them thugs as terrorists is a good idea. It will squeze them hard and hurt the people. The majority in that country don’t like the oppressive islamic theocracy that exists and this would push them harder to overthrow it.


4 posted on 08/17/2007 8:57:37 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: BerniesFriend
"fugitive counter-revolutionaries"

I think it is a deliberate attempt to enlist help from Oboomba....and Kutsy Kucinich.....

5 posted on 08/17/2007 9:00:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Granddaughters!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hey, Khatami, beisse mich!


6 posted on 08/17/2007 9:04:20 PM PDT by stboz (I)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach


Free Version:

http://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/index.htm


7 posted on 08/17/2007 9:04:28 PM PDT by pacelvi (In general, Democrats are the only real reason to vote for Republicans. - Thomas Sowell)
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To: BnBlFlag
What are they going to do about it? Start smuggling in IED’s?

You sure beat me to that one. These guys are terrorists, we caught one of them red-handed today, and it's high time we called a spade a FReepin' shovel. I really care about some diaper-headed mullah's feelings. You betcha.

8 posted on 08/17/2007 9:10:26 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

hubba bubba!


9 posted on 08/17/2007 9:14:02 PM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs +2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami?

I a tolla, "I'm..a..mad..cat" ...ta. ....me!

Boo Hoo, now that the chips are about to fall, the warnings start.

Remember the warnings from Saddam WhoseInsane, and quite deed now, prior to US troops landing in Kuwait?

The same Saddam who said that Iraq would run red with the blood of Americans?

We need to listen to those warnings, because those warnings are proportionately louder as the Mullahs feel the icey cold hand of the USA beginning to encircle their cojones! The louder they squeel , the harder we should squeeze!

What really irks this cleric is that President Bush can make the declaration, based on proof and fact, without getting ANY support from Americas diploditto, moonbat liberal socialist democrap politicians in Congress. He can do iot without ANY legislation, and release an army of covert adversaries against Iran. This is so very cool!

That means that Bush will easily win the political battle at home, indeed has already won it, so it is the council of Mullahs which has lost its support in the halls of power in the USA. THey have had the end run pulled on them again, by a president who is supposed to be "stupid" according to these very same moonbats.

Atta Go president Bush, you have the Iranians whining , so finish the job already! Declase Irans Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Organization ( they are far more than that, they are the modern equivalent of Hitlers Waffen SS, and a whole lot more, with business functions internationally)

Hillery Clinton ( the Beast) cannot ride to Iran's rescue.

Let's can the Iranians, let's just get on with it!

10 posted on 08/17/2007 9:17:20 PM PDT by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You know Bush is 100% on the right path, when the Crimes Against Humanity mad mullahs start bellyaching.


11 posted on 08/17/2007 9:35:37 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"..A top Iranian cleric has warned the United States during a live radio broadcast not to blacklist Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization..."

Middle Finger.

12 posted on 08/17/2007 9:38:39 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had caused international controversy over his anti-Israeli remarks and his hard-line stance in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program.

Words mean sonething, MockMud Ihaveatinywad!!

13 posted on 08/17/2007 9:41:52 PM PDT by Go Gordon (The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.)
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To: Billthedrill
These guys are terrorists, we caught one of them red-handed today, and it's high time we called a spade a FReepin' shovel. I really care about some diaper-headed mullah's feelings. You betcha.

I love to think. The harder the better. But this issue doesn't need it. You said it brilliantly Bill, as always.

14 posted on 08/17/2007 9:56:04 PM PDT by humint (...err the least and endure! VDH)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Meanwhile...
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/08/iran-marches-forward-with-plans-to-take.html


15 posted on 08/17/2007 10:01:06 PM PDT by AliVeritas (Holy Cow Scooter , you made it! Phil Rizzuto 1917-2007)
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To: AliVeritas

Thanks wasn’t aware of that....


16 posted on 08/17/2007 10:18:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Granddaughters!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He should micturate on a length of hemp..


17 posted on 08/17/2007 10:48:57 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Yes sir, we’ll be sure to try and follow this clerks advise...


18 posted on 08/17/2007 11:31:14 PM PDT by veracious
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I think it’s time to begin ICBM practice on the nation of Iran


19 posted on 08/18/2007 1:23:07 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They are a terrorist group!

So there...What are ya going to do about it numbnuts!

Not you Ernest, hehehe, I was talking to the islamo-facsist smelly person there...


20 posted on 08/18/2007 7:21:24 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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