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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200806/FOR20080609b.html

“Iran’s Supreme Leader Predicts Terrorists Will Get Nukes”
By Terence P. Jeffrey
CNSNews.com Editor in Chief
June 09, 2008

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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Khamenei gave the speech to mark the 19th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, who died on June 3, 1989, ten years after he sparked a revolution in Iran that overthrew the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a U.S. ally, and instituted a Shiite Islamic theocracy.

Khamenei’s speech was presented as a review of the lessons that Ayatollah Khomeini taught in his “last will and testament.”

While predicting that terrorists would obtain nuclear weapons, Khamenei claimed Iran was not interested in obtaining nuclear weapons itself, but only wanted to develop nuclear energy.

At one point during Khamenei’s speech, according to a translated transcript published by the BBC, the crowd at the mausoleum chanted: “Death to Israel.” At other points, it chanted: “Palestine is victorious, Israel is defeated,” and “Nuclear energy, our absolute right.”

Khamenei’s virulent attacks on Israel appeared to echo the rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has said that “Israel should be wiped off the map.”

At Khomeini’s tomb on Tuesday, Khamenei, who holds more power than Ahmadinejad under Iran’s Islamic revolutionary constitution, lashed out at both America and “Arabic nations” for allowing Israel to “stand on its feet.”

“Other nations, just like the Iranian nation, consider Israel as a false and imposed regime in the region,” said Khamenei, according to the BBC translation. “The Zionist regime has no power by itself and cannot stand on its own feet. Today, two factors have helped the Zionist regime stand on its feet. First, the unconditional and despicable support of America for this decadent regime, and second is lack of support of Islamic and Arabic nations for the Palestinian people.”

Khamenei claimed Iran was not interested in pursuing nuclear weapons because they are against “Islamic beliefs,” but said that terrorists would get nuclear weapons.

“The Iranian nation is against such weapons based on its religious and Islamic beliefs as well as based on logic and wisdom. Nuclear weapons have no benefit but high costs to manufacture and keep them,” he said, according to the BBC translation. “Nuclear weapons do not bring power to a nation because they are not applicable. Nuclear weapons cannot be used.”

A moment later he added, “Before long, the world’s terrorists will have access to nuclear weapons and take away security from all the tyrants of the world and all the nations of the world.”

Khamenei told the chanting crowd at the mausoleum that the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s advice to them was to resist America, and — in a probable allusion to the Iranian-backed Mahdi Army in Iraq — said that some Iranians even now were following Khomeini’s advice.

Citing Khomeini’s last will and testament, Khamenei also predicted that Iran’s Islamic revolution would spread around the world as people elsewhere were inspired by the things it had done for Iran.”

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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=IA44708

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 447
June 6, 2008 No. 447

“Ahmadinejad: Israel Is a ‘Dead Fish’ and a ‘Stinking Corpse’; ‘The Zionist Regime Will Be Wiped Off the Map’; ‘The European Governments Do Not Want the Zionists Living in Europe’”
By: Y. Mansharof AND A. Savyon

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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:

http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/7778.htm

On Iranian Website: “The Islamic World Without Wahhabis”

In an editorial titled “The Islamic World Without Wahhabis,” the Iranian website Tabnak stated that the Saudis are the terrorists of the Islamic world.

The website said that the Saudi government was helping the aggressive governments and making it possible for them to establish bases on its territory, and that Saudi Arabia was sowing division in the Islamic world and in recent years conducting anti-Shi’ite propaganda.

Source: Tabnak, Iran, June 2, 2008

Posted at: 2008-06-04