Posted on 01/05/2006 10:12:21 AM PST by Flavius
ran Focus
Tehran, Jan 05 – Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd of theological students in the holy city of Qom on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “has joined his ancestors and others will soon follow suit”, according to the state-run Mehr news agency.
“The Butcher of Sabra and Shatila has joined his ancestors and others will soon follow suit”, Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. The same report appeared on the website Khedmat, which is run by members of the Iranian president’s entourage.
Ahmadinejad’s announcement of the death of the Israeli Prime Minister comes at a time when Sharon was reportedly fighting for his life on Thursday after a massive brain stroke.
Iran’s state-owned media and newspapers have been reporting the Israeli leader’s deteriorating health condition with evident glee. In a statement put out by state-run news agencies, the Headquarters for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement said “the death of Sharon brings joy to the hearts of Muslims”.
The ultra-conservative president told the radical Shiite Islamists, many of whom have come to Qom from different Muslim countries, that Islam did not restrict itself to geographical borders.
“We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It’s a universal ideology that leads the world to justice”, Ahmadinejad said.
“We don’t shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world”, he added.
Ahmadinejad dwelled on his recurrent theme that the return of the Shiite Messiah, the Mahdi, is not far away and Muslims must prepare for it.
“We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return”, Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Shiite Muslim belief that the Mahdi, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption.
“If we work on the basis of the Expectation of the Return [of the Mahdi], all the affairs of our nation will be streamlined and the administration of the country will become easier”, Ahmadinejad said.
“Some politicians think we had a revolution so that some could hit others in the head and have one party ruling for some time and another party in opposition for some time. But we had a revolution to achieve a lofty goal, on the basis on the Expectation of the Return”, he said.
Ahmadinejad said Divine Providence was helping Iran’s Islamist regime, as the turn of events around the world picked up speed.
“Our interpretation is that the hand of the Almighty is putting every piece of the jigsaw puzzle of the future of the world in place in line with the goals of Islam”, the hard-line president said.
Ahmadinejad cited the United States occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, both Iran’s neighbours, as proof of his assertion.
“The Global Oppressor [the U.S.] occupied these countries with the aim of putting pressure on Iran, but God let the fruit of this fall on the lap of the Iranian nation”, he said.
When I look at the Middle East, I don't see a powerful fundamentalist state after the conquest of Iran. It needs to be done, most likely with a full scale invasion. Make the dominoes fall on the other side.
Just taking out the nuke program only buys us time, and these guys are fanatical enough to attack us after we bomb them. There needs to be regime change at the same time.
Not to worry all - the UN (United Nitwits) will take care of him - Yes indeedie!
“We must prepare ourselves to rule the world and the only way to do that is to put forth views on the basis of the Expectation of the Return”, Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Shiite Muslim belief that the Mahdi, on his return, will establish justice in a world consumed by chaos and corruption. “If we work on the basis of the Expectation of the Return [of the Mahdi], all the affairs of our nation will be streamlined and the administration of the country will become easier”, Ahmadinejad said.
There's an implied assumption here - and that's that the Mahdi is alive and known, and Iranian. There's also the assumption that taunts will push Israel into an attack that will be answered with the death of many of Israel's leaders... When the idea of the Mahdi is mixed in this is what it feels like - it feels like they have the bomb, are willing to use it and are willing to have many of their own people killed in the process. Allowing your own people to die for a "cause" has that uber religious "mahdi" crap feeling about it. The taunts are getting louder, more personal and more offensive. It's not an accident. Ahmadinejad's someone's puppet and there's deadly strategy behind this. Or maybe not. But I don't like how it feels.
When someone's trying that hard to get you into a fight, you've got to wonder what they've got up their sleeve.
Bluster? Too paranoid and strategic for that...
I suppose that's why everybody's so quiet. Either they don't care or they are looking forward to it.
I hope Pat Robertson calls for his assasination - I want to see the libs criticize him for doing it.
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What is the downside of, just for starters, taking this lunatic out by whatever means is expedient? How might history have changed for the better if only Hitler had received a bullet between the eyes in the late 1930's?
Yeah, I just read this
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17743940-5001028,00.html
I don’t understand why we don’t send in the Mission Impossible team or maybe James Bond.
well, thanks for that post, this means that all of the information coming from iran focus is at least as realiable as the rest of the associated press articles
I personally don't like the agenda of people behind Iran Focus.
They are terrorists from a hated group called MEK
I think I read somewhere there is speculation that he is the Mahdi.
They should set a date for the Mahdi so it can pass without a blip and we can all get on with business.
oh, well, thats makes a difference
An invasion will cost needless American deaths.
The people of any nation, regardless of political structure, are responsible for what thier nation does.
The Iranian people's cowardice in allowing these psychopaths to rule them does not make them guiltless should a nuke be aimed at the US or Israel and used.
Wipe the entire effing nation off the map as a lesson to nutjobs everywhere, once and for all.
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