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Rafsanjani says Iran is too strong to be defeated

Tehran, Aug 18, IRNA -- Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani said here Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is too
strong to be defeated.
Rafsanjani told a group of war veterans on the anniversary of
their return home that the Islamic Republic of Iran is now highly
stable and firm, and is only worried about the condition of Muslim
Iraqis.
He said the conditions of Saddam, Baath party, and Iraqi rulers
and the unfavorable state of US occupiers in Iraq set a good example
of divine justice.
"God punishes tyrants by tyrants; enemies of the Islamic Republic
(of Iran) were punished with each other but the Islamic Republic of
Iran is now firm and stable, being concerned about the condition of
Muslim Iraqi people," said Rafsanjani.
He lauded war veterans as main elements of the Islamic Revolution
and its inheritors and owners.

http://www.irna.ir/en/tnews/030819191308.etn04.shtml

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US must "turn up the heat" on Syria, Iran: top Republican

Sun Aug 17, 3:57 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A senior US Republican congressman said that the White House should increase pressure on Syria and Iran to prevail in the war against terrorism.

We've got to continue the pressure on Syria and Iran," Tom DeLay, leader of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, told Fox News television.

"We need to turn up the heat on both those countries to join us -- either join us against these terrorists or suffer the consequences," he said.

"We have to fight this on every front that we can find to get these terrorists," said DeLay, who recently returned from the Middle East.

"The United States ought to be ... fighting the war against terrorism, whether we find it in the Middle East or in Southeast Asia or in Israel," the Texas lawmaker said.

"We ought to go after these terrorists, as we have been doing, and eliminate them and the states that support them. And.............

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