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Originally posted by Kokatsi
reply to post by Xcathdra
Plus, the Farsnews article you quote says:
The necessity of the destruction of Israel from the perspective of Imam Khomeini
May I point out that Khomeini has been dead for a long time now?
Iran has a different ayatollah. Named Khamenei, not Khomeini.
Your title and out-of-context reference allows the possibility that it is the present ayatollah that said this recently.
You should make that clear.
Why?
Because there are people who want a deadly confrontation and words do matter now.
There is also a disclaimer later on the page (author's views etc.) No one says this is the view of Iran's government in 2012. Although one can guess that it is no chance that they re-publish the former Ayatollah's words just now.
I do not agree with either of the ayatollahs, but the point is, you seem to be looking for a casus belli in Iran's present rhetoric.
So far you have failed.
On 26 October 2005, speaking at a seminar entitled "World without Zionism," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: "God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism." Echoing the words of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad stressed "Our dear Imam [Khomeini] ordered that the occupying regime in Jerusalem be wiped off the face of the earth. This was a very wise statement. The issue of Palestine is not one which we could compromise on... I warn the heads of all nations of the Islamic world to beware of this trap. If some, who are under pressure by the dominating powers, follow a misguided policy or are naive, or selfish or have earthly desires, recognize this regime (Israel), they should know that they would be burnt in the fire of the Islamic Ummah (Nation) and will bear an eternal stigma on their foreheads." He further expressed his firm belief that the new wave of confrontations generated in Palestine and the growing turmoil in the Islamic world would in no time wipe Israel away.
On 26 October 2005 Islamic Revolutionary Guards spokesman Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri said "If this cancer (Israel) is not removed from the Islamic world, Muslims will sustain immense harm... This wound was opened more than half a century ago and has still not been healed, because in the Islamic world, some leaders and regimes, which have not been democratically elected by their own people, continue to rule, with the help of Western imperialism. A world without Zionism, and the obliteration of Israel from the face of the earth, is not only the objective of Iran, but of the whole Muslim world."
Originally posted by blueorder
reply to post by nightbringr
No I wouldn't have gone to war after they attacked Poland, sure the ussr did likewise and we fought alongside them
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
can you honestly say that you are psychic? because they HAVE NOT INVADED IN 200 years. unless you are going with the comic book villain theory where they bide their time fiddling with their thumbs. What statements, the ones EVERYONE proved were wrong and taken out of context.
You saw that the origin was their news agency but MISSED that they mistranslated it into English?
Originally posted by casenately
you can quote all you want but when you have to add (Israel) in-between his words instead of (Zionist regime) you are misrepresenting the facts. LIER
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by Xcathdra
You also posted it with (Jews) or (Israel) instead of (Zionist regime)
and we are talking about Iran. Who have they invaded?
There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all.
The massive cache of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents released by the WikiLeaks Web site revealed that small amounts of chemical weapons were found in Iraq and continued to surface for years after the 2003 US invasion, Wired magazine reported.
The documents showed that US troops continued to find chemical weapons and labs for years after the invasion, including remnants of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons arsenal -- most of which had been destroyed following the Gulf War.
In August 2004, American troops were able to buy containers from locals of what they thought was liquid sulfur mustard, a blister agent, the documents revealed. The chemicals were triple-sealed and taken to a secure site.
Also in 2004, troops discovered a chemical lab in a house in Fallujah during a battle with insurgents. A chemical cache was also found in the city.
Originally posted by casenately
reply to post by neo96
soooooo
why is this not all over the news. what ran out of quotes and BS to support this.
I say they were moved to the moon, woohoo anything goes.