Posted on 05/02/2003 9:31:43 AM PDT by knighthawk
TEHRAN, May 2 (AFP) - A leading Iranian conservative cleric said Friday the Iraqi people have no other choice but to rise up against occupying US troops and stage suicide attacks to force them out of Iraq.
"The Iraqi people are finally coming to understand that the solution is an uprising, and they have no other choice but to rise up and stage martyrdom operations," said Ahmad Janati, secretary general of the Guardians Council, in a sermon during Friday prayers.
"This is the only solution; they are learning from the experience of Palestine," he added.
"What we want from them is unity, taking sanctuary in mosques, following the clerics' path and making continued efforts to drive the enemy out of Iraq," he said.
Janati charged that the Americans want to "feed (Iraqis) democracy from their gun points and if they fear from death, they will have to surrender."
The United States has accused Iran of seeking to use Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority to push for an Islamic government and undermine Washington's plans to instill its brand of democracy.
It has warned Iran against "any outside interference" in Iraq.
Janati, whose country fought a bloody eight-year war against Saddam's regime in the 1980s, charged that the Iraqis were not any better off now.
"The Iraqi people were released from the claws of one wolf and have been caught by another wolf," he said.
Janati also lashed out at a ceasefire concluded between US forces and the Iraq-based armed Iranian opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, who have been using Iraqi soil to battle Tehran's clerical regime for well over a decade.
"The hypocrites -- (Tehran's standard term of abuse for the group) -- were servants of Saddam and now have become servants of the Americans", he said.
A spokesman for the group told AFP on April 23 that under the deal the nationalist group, which advocates a moderate Islam, was allowed to keep its arms, stay in Iraq and continue to wage its armed struggle.
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned Iran on April 25 not to interfere in Iraq, saying that Tehran had sent agents into Iraq to extend its influence.
After 20+ years of hell under Saddam's torture and now these idiots from Iran want the Iraqis to kill themselves now the are finally free?
The Iraqis should tell them to go straight to hell
Now, plese note, the same people who are demanding that people in a far-away land stop destroying what is their own property for the petty goal of having enough to eat, are the very same Liberals inclined to be rich doctors or lawyers, who didn't have a single thought about the American trees ripped up and greenspace destroyed to plop down their $250,000 house. After all, that's their land. But those people who are burning the Rainforest? Hey, they have to be stopped. Or at least, our government has to give them a Bazillion Dollars so that they can eat, because hey, if they are starving in their own land, warring with each other over who killed whose great, great, great grandfather, and dying because the warlord in their own country has taken all the guns and they don't have the energy to fight him, that is all the fault of the Evil Americans.
And yet, if I were to say "Hey, Abdul! The reason America is the most powerful nation on earth is that we don't kill each other on a massive scale over petty tribal differences, and we spend our time making and fixing and selling things, rather than killing each other. Why don't you guys kill a few sacred cows, have a nice Texas barbeque, get some damn protean into you so that you have the strength to kill your tyrant leaders, and then start making and fixing and selling things? Because, damn, our arguments here in America only go back two hundred years or so, and we ignore most of those, or we do if we want to get ahead and actually get a nice house in a good neighbor hood!" then the French God Forbid, would start complaining about how I was vulgar and American, and I would have to say, Your day's coming, Frenchie-Frenchman!
Whew. Sorry.
Keep the mullah talking .... GIVE US A REASON.
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