Posted on 04/14/2006 10:41:20 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
TEHRAN, Iran - The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.
"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."
Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map."
On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: "If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?"
The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed soon."
He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."
"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."
The three-day conference on Palestine is being attended by officials of Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories.
Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has been published.
On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium using a battery of 164 centrifuges, a significant step toward the large-scale production of enriched uranium required for either fueling nuclear reactors or making nuclear weapons.
The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is confined to generating electricity.
The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until April 28 to cease enrichment. But Iran has rejected the demand.
The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three years, by the end of the decade."
Actually what he does believe, and he's made it very clear in some speeches, is that he's the one who will bring about the coming of the Mahdi (moslem messiah). He's even said that nuclear war is not out of the question as a means to usher in the end of the wold and the coming of the Mahdi! He just might get his wish, but I would love to see his face when he first sees the Mahdi and finds out who He really is! Come soon, Lord Jesus!
Yeah. I think you are right. Unfortunately that means things are about to get VERY UGLY.
Would you even want to think of what could happen if Iraq was still in the hands of Saddam and Afghanistan, the Taliban?
Remember, this Texan is a great poker player.
If Iran - looks like "when" - breaks loose, the world will have a chance on putting this maniac back in the bottle (and then crush it) - without our presence on either side of Iran - the only safe place (possible) would be a cave deep in the tundra
The Israeli Air Force raid on the Iraqi "nukular" reactor near Baghdad.
But of course, Nisicko Pivo on demand!
So let me get this straight. The Iranian pres wants to annihilate Israel. Israel is small and "Palestine" and the Palestinians are mostly within Israel. If Iran sets off an A bomb in Israel sure it will kill lots of Jews but a lot more Palestinians and Arabs including the holy sites in Jerusalem will also go boom. So in the end he also blows up Palestine. Is this guy like a rocket scientist or what?
Ah yes, the Spielberg "I hate myself because I am Jewish" crowd.
They are fools, and should be ignored.
This guy will be visiting his 72 prunes real soon.
I'm all for that-
Ah, there is the question, who is our side?
If you don't know, what good would it do to explain the facts of today's world.
Don't snort too much sand
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