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Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/14/06 | Ali Akbar Dareini - ap

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."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; annihilated; gwot; howconvenient; iran; israel; leader
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To: maine-iac7
This megalomaniac DOES think he's the second coming of something

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!

81 posted on 04/14/2006 1:19:39 PM PDT by Former Fetus (fetuses are 100% pro-life, they just don't vote yet!)
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To: maine-iac7

Yeah. I think you are right. Unfortunately that means things are about to get VERY UGLY.


82 posted on 04/14/2006 1:21:54 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: Cold Heat
Lots of sense in your post - do you not suspicion that it's GW's "strategery" - knowing the likelihood of just what's going down now in Iran - too get us positioned as we are now on either side of Iran?

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

83 posted on 04/14/2006 1:27:55 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (",,,BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME" Lincoln)
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To: astounded

The Israeli Air Force raid on the Iraqi "nukular" reactor near Baghdad.


84 posted on 04/14/2006 1:43:37 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Unfettered gun ownership is the highest expression of civil rights.)
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To: Wraith

But of course, Nisicko Pivo on demand!


85 posted on 04/14/2006 1:53:56 PM PDT by montyspython (Love that chicken from Popeye's)
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To: NormsRevenge
Hopefully the Israeli military and Mossad are using his face on targets when it trains new snipers.

"Never Again".
86 posted on 04/14/2006 1:55:57 PM PDT by cgbg (When you hear the words "gender" or "stakeholder" run for your life!)
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To: NormsRevenge

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?


87 posted on 04/14/2006 2:18:18 PM PDT by mandingo republican (Libs are Moloch worshipers I tell ya! - FREE HK, CUBA & IRAN - www.geocities.com/nccwatch)
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To: BIGZ

Ah yes, the Spielberg "I hate myself because I am Jewish" crowd.

They are fools, and should be ignored.


88 posted on 04/14/2006 3:15:09 PM PDT by Emmet Fitzhume ("It is better to be alone than in bad company.")
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To: NormsRevenge
Mahmoud Ringo Starkey Ahmadinejad has less than six weeks to live.
89 posted on 04/14/2006 3:56:42 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Oh, for the days when "disrespect" was just a noun.)
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To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
Don't think the nut case of Iran realizes what he's up against. And actually, I don't care. He's a nut...

This guy will be visiting his 72 prunes real soon.

90 posted on 04/14/2006 4:00:08 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Oh, for the days when "disrespect" was just a noun.)
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To: maine-iac7
If Iran - looks like "when" - breaks loose, the world will have a
chance on putting this maniac back in the bottle

I'm all for that-

91 posted on 04/14/2006 4:07:40 PM PDT by mikrofon (I'm Mad in a Jar)
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To: mikrofon
LOLLOFLHHO little ole lady laying on the floor laughing her hiney off
92 posted on 04/14/2006 5:34:24 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time," Lincoln)
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To: maine-iac7
if it were and we get "mad" and don't vote for our side

Ah, there is the question, who is our side?

93 posted on 04/14/2006 7:14:55 PM PDT by itsahoot (Any country that does not control its borders, is not a country. Ronald Reagan)
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To: itsahoot
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

94 posted on 04/14/2006 7:38:51 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time," Lincoln)
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