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Iran: Drop 'Axis of Evil' Idea
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 27 february 2002

Posted on 02/27/2002 12:50:32 PM PST by knighthawk

BERLIN (AP) - Iran, denounced by President Bush as part of an "axis of evil," urged U.S. allies Wednesday to lobby the American administration against unilateral military action in the war on terrorism.

No world power should simply "declare someone as a terrorist and use its military muscle against them," Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said before talks with his German counterpart, Joschka Fischer.

"The friends of the United States have to advise them that, instead of unilateralism, they should stick to multilateralism," Kharrazi told reporters. He spoke during a two-day visit to Berlin to discuss Afghanistan and the Middle East with German officials.

Fischer made no comment. Germany has strongly backed the United States in the war in Afghanistan, but Fischer is among a number of European officials who have cautioned the Bush administration against expecting automatic support for military action elsewhere.

In his State of the Union address last month, Bush labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea part of an "axis of evil" that supports terrorism and seeks to develop weapons of mass destruction, warning them to stop or face consequences.

Speculation about the next major step in the U.S. campaign has focused on Iraq, but Iran was also angered.

On Tuesday, Iran's legislature approved a budget bill containing unspecified spending to counter U.S. policy, state-run Tehran radio said. The allocation will be used to "discover and thwart U.S. plots and its acts of interference in Iran's internal affairs and also file suits with international bodies against the United States, legislator Hassan Ramezanianpour said.

Some U.S. allies criticized Bush for denouncing Iran, saying he alienated politicians and citizens who are pressing the ruling hard-line clergy to expand democracy.

Iran's ties with Germany and other European countries are friendlier than with the United States.

On Tuesday, Kharrazi met German parliament president Wolfgang Thierse and said they agreed "that it's only in an international effort that terrorism can be dealt with."

He also repeated Iran's rejection of U.S. allegations that it was destabilizing neighboring Afghanistan as a new post-Taliban political order takes shape under Western-backed interim leader Hamid Karzai, who completed a visit to Iran on Tuesday.


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To: knighthawk
No world power should simply "declare someone as a terrorist and use its military muscle against them," Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said before talks with his German counterpart, Joschka Fischer.

"The friends of the United States have to advise them that, instead of unilateralism, they should stick to multilateralism," Kharrazi told reporters. He spoke during a two-day visit to Berlin to discuss Afghanistan and the Middle East with German officials.

If I didn't know any better I'd say that Iran realizes that Dubya means business and isn't going to put up with any nonsense.

21 posted on 02/27/2002 1:06:02 PM PST by cactmh
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To: DentsRun
Yeah, ignore the problem and it'll go away, right?
22 posted on 02/27/2002 1:07:05 PM PST by cactmh
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To: Bobby777
Iran: Drop 'Axis of Evil' Idea while we're busy building our first atom bomb, missile delivery system and resupplying Syria and the PLO

And Hezbollah. And harboring terrorists.

When I'm done with my list, I'll let Iran know.

23 posted on 02/27/2002 1:12:16 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: knighthawk
As Clint Eastwood said in Unforgiven:

"All you men who don't wanna get killed, better clear on out the back."

Screw Iran.

24 posted on 02/27/2002 1:17:28 PM PST by irish_lad
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To: knighthawk
Why do I get the impression that GW struck a nerve, big-time? These guys have been doing nothing but running around and flapping their arms since the SOTU speech. Do you think maybe they've figured out that this President can and will do more than "feel their pain"?

What maroons.

25 posted on 02/27/2002 1:24:24 PM PST by WarEagle
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To: cactmh
Yeah, ignore the problem and it'll go away, right?

It's not our fight. Both sides over there hate each other. Neither side is willing to make the concessions required to achieve a lasting peace. We can't solve their problems for them if they aren't willing to help themselves.

26 posted on 02/27/2002 1:56:30 PM PST by DentsRun
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To: knighthawk
Lock n' load.
27 posted on 02/27/2002 2:02:11 PM PST by steenkeenbadges
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To: knighthawk
Iran = Just another jacka$$ country full of "believers" who use religion as a pretext for their evil, hatred of people unkike themselves!
28 posted on 02/27/2002 2:19:47 PM PST by FixitGuy
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To: DentsRun
"It's not our fight. Both sides over there hate each other. Neither side is willing to make the concessions required to achieve a lasting peace. We can't solve their problems for them if they aren't willing to help themselves."I agree with what you are saying, though I think that militant Islamic nuts are our problem. 9/11 was just one of many incidents that have shown this. And before you say that it would stop if we stayed out of the middle east, please explain why militant muslims are causing havoc in the Philippenes, Chechnya and Kashmir.
29 posted on 02/27/2002 2:26:17 PM PST by cactmh
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To: knighthawk
Now self defense is defined as unilateral action against terrorism.

Iranians better be hearing this: maybe the Soviets fooled us into such psychobable matrix pre-definition type blackmail, but a bunch of arab fascists will not be able to repeat the same technique again on the US, especialy after 911.

In fact, Iran is insulting the West and America's intelligence right now and should be nuked just for that. I am sick and tired of the faggits.

31 posted on 02/27/2002 2:31:01 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: knighthawk
"The friends of the United States have to advise them that, instead of unilateralism, they should stick to multilateralism," Kharrazi told reporters.

He went on to add "We say this because we know full well that all of you bootlicking Liberals would completely hinder anything being done to us Terroris....errr....Peace loving Islamists."

32 posted on 02/27/2002 2:31:30 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: lavaroise
bunch of arab fascists

Iranians aren't arabs, are they?

33 posted on 02/27/2002 2:34:31 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
whatever, persian fcks, same to me. A bunch of fascists imposing definitions while decrying definitions. So I'll say it. ARAB AND PERSIAN FCKS.
34 posted on 02/27/2002 2:42:42 PM PST by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise
imposing definitions while decrying definitions

The State is a poor philosopher.

35 posted on 02/27/2002 3:05:41 PM PST by RightWhale
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To: vannrox
Here's another one for ya:

"Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell such that they'll look forward to the trip."

37 posted on 02/27/2002 9:20:23 PM PST by MetalMorph
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