Iran Pres.: Israel Will Be Annihilated

[ed316]

Iran Pres.: Israel Will Be Annihilated


TEHRAN, Iran, April 14, 2006


(AP) Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "rotten, dried tree" that will be annihilated by "one storm."

Opening of a conference on supporting the Palestinians, Ahmadinejad fired a series of verbal shots at Israel, saying it was a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated, and questioning the validity of the Nazi Holocaust against Jews in World War II.

"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm," he said.

The president provoked a world outcry last 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 president spoke days after two Israeli generals spoke of the military potential of Iran's nuclear program.

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."

The day before Ahmadinejad had 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 bombs.

The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build an atomic bomb. 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.


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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/14/world/main1499824.shtml

[kineret]

..pre emptive strike

... pre emptive strike

.. pre emptive strike


opportunity is knocking.

[BlackRain]

Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated
Apr 14 12:34 PM US/Eastern

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer

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.

http://www.breitbart.com/images/2006/4/14/D8GVSUC0H/D8GVSUC0H_preview.jpg
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."


http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/04/14/D8GVSUC0H.html

[WarriorMonk]

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=78387

BlackRain beat you to it...

[Asheren]

geez can't we just remove him form earth surface no matter how it will be USA/Israel fault anway. If we wait till they nuke it might be too late.

[ed316]

Mine is 48 minutes old. His is 30. BR delete it.

[WarriorMonk]

What this Ahmendijablahblahdirkadirka fool doesn't get is that the phrases "nuclear energy" and "wipe out Israel" don't go together very well.

It's obvious, we all know the destructive potential of nuclear bombs/power - and just mentioning anything nuclear along with "wipe out the country of X" is going to make anyone's hair stand on end.

Sometimes I seriously think some Iranian intelligence mole is inside the CIA and inserted into those fateful documents that it wasn't Iran, but Saddam Hussein buying uranium, and changed the "invade of Iran" to "invade of Iraq."

[Laworkerbee]

"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."

Haha this coming from a guy who governs a country as stable as a house of cards rofl

[Snoshi]

LOL not this **** again....

[BlackRain]

Mine is 48 minutes old. His is 30. BR delete it.

Yeah, but mine is getting all the chicks..:)

[Trigger]

"....I was just cleaning my entire strategic bomber force when it suddenly went off."

[Laworkerbee]

"....I was just cleaning my entire strategic bomber force when it suddenly went off."

rofl ..........

[Snoshi]

is he suicidal?

[sir-chimp]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/AP/more/and%20more/466042f9.jpg

did he break out into song and dance?

[shire19]

It's puzzling, it's like he actually wants this to go further.. Why not just keep these emotions of his to himself? Who is he trying to scare?

[kaspur_eh]

Iran needs to quit while their ahead... er I mean, before they get too far behind.

[Kaapeli]

At first I though he was just another harmless extremist dildo talking out of his ass to get PR time. But now he's really testing peoples patience when he already got everyones attention.

[Firefly26]

Oh I am so sure. Israel would clip these guys if they even had the potential to become a threat. Let them rattle their sabres if it makes them feel better. Hell humor is the best medicine.

[Trigger]

This could easily be the sequel to Crimson Tide...

Quick: someone get Bruckheimer and Hackman on the line...and get gaz to write some cool dialogue.

[S'13]

Well at least he's making Bush's task to convince Congress to give him a green light that much easier...

[signatory]

Well most of what he says is just some weird sarcasm / twisting of word that the US have used against Iran in some form or the other. I think that's part of the game, especially the use of 'liberated'... he's kinda trollish that way and create alot of debate in not least Arab media.

Not very presidential though.

Quick google
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Bolton compares Iran threat to Sept. 11 attacks

“Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that’s the threat. I think that is the threat,” Bolton told ABC News’ Nightline. “I think it’s just facing reality. It’s not a happy reality, but it’s reality and if you don’t deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11849446/
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WASHINGTON – The threat posed to the national security of the United States by Iran was likened only to the one posed by Nazi Germany in the 1930s, by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who suggested Tehran could be planning for a pre-emptive nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack on America that would turn a third or more of the country "back to a 19th century level of development."


WASHINGTON - Iran faces “tangible and painful consequences” if it continues its nuclear activities and the United States will use “all tools at our disposal” to stop this threat, a senior U.S. official said Sunday, ahead of a crucial international meeting on Iran.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11684031/


"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a blueprint called the "National Security Stategy" of the United States, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

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"I think there's no doubt that Iran is the single biggest threat from a state that we face," Rice told a U.S. Senate panel.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060328/Rice_Iranthreat060328?s_name=&no_ads=

[Midav]

Well at least he's making Bush's task to convince Congress to give him a green light that much easier...

I agree!

What is Ahmadinejad trying to prove with his ignorant dribble?

The man deserves to be shot right in the head.

[Miles.]

Like the US needs any convincing to go to war on behalf of Israel.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

As bizarre and fun as this behavior is - the dialogue that Iran uses is even more entertaining. I actually love reading it, as there could be no more damning evidence that their government is fear mongering to the great unwashed (no pun intended) to secure power.

Here we have a modern nation - one that is building and operating nuclear facilities, guided missiles, jet fighters - yet when they speak to the people, the language they use is straight out of the Quran; "a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm"

I can just see the technicians working at the nuclear plant;
"Ahmed, be sure to use the CNC robot to machine the interior of the detonation chamber to glisten like dew on a freshly picked fig"
"Yes Jamshid, I'll also position the tritium canister with the Hilti laser guideblock so that it fits as tightly as a mud brick made with the finest ox hair"

[Zarathustra]

This man won't last long.

[guard2.bn]

Iran Leader: Iran Will Be Annihilated

i fixed that for you ;)

[S'13]

"The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."

Haha this coming from a guy who governs a country as stable as a house of cards rofl

Kind of reminded me of this:

"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
(Hitler, prior to the invasion of Russia)

Makes you think, doesn't it...

[Miles.]

Kind of reminded me of this:

"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
(Hitler, prior to the invasion of Russia)

Makes you think, doesn't it...

Not to mention the magnanimous "non-aggression pacts" he's proposing. Also, the encirclement strategy the USA/Coalition is pursuing is similar to the English efforts of 1933-1940.

[Laworkerbee]

Kind of reminded me of this:

"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
(Hitler, prior to the invasion of Russia)

Makes you think, doesn't it...

Heh I knew the origins of the line, however it's still a good one from time to time :)

[cosimo]

There is something not at all right about this Mr Ahmadinejad. He seems to want to be attacked. The man worries me. I can't help feeling that he is on some sort of twisted 'holy' mission of his own.

[BlackRain]

There is something not at all right about this Mr Ahmadinejad. He seems to want to be attacked. The man worries me. I can't help feeling that he is on some sort of twisted 'holy' mission of his own.

You have to understand that this guy, Ahmadinejad, is a fatalist.

He believes this bullcrap story about a mystical leader that is buried under a Mosque (but is still alive somehow several hundred years later) will usher in the end of days for the wicked West.

So by formenting war, he gets to see if Santa really exists.

[Asheren]

If my memory is correct he is connected to some muslim sect. It has something to do with some Quran texts that mahdi will came duing period of chaos or smth like that. Add 1+1 and you got something worse that this dumb japanese sect that spreaded sarin in subway. On other side... some conspiracy nuts claim that "arrow of indra"(if my memory is correcti its called like this) that had power to erase whole cities was actualy ancient ICMB with nuclear warhead. To backup their theory they tell about some place in Iranian desert where ground is burned in similiar fashion to nuclear explosion. It was melted in times where this whole story with arrow was suppose to happen. Soo maybe history like to repeat itself...

[S'13]

You have to understand that this guy, Ahmadinejad, is a fatalist.

He believes this bullcrap story about a mystical leader that is buried under a Mosque (but is still alive somehow several hundred years later) will usher in the end of days for the wicked West.

So by formenting war, he gets to see if Santa really exists.

Very true...


The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president's belief that his government must prepare the country for his return.

One of the first acts of Mr Ahmadinejad's government was to donate about £10 million to the Jamkaran mosque, a popular pilgrimage site where the pious come to drop messages to the Hidden Imam into a holy well.

All streams of Islam believe in a divine saviour, known as the Mahdi, who will appear at the End of Days. A common rumour - denied by the government but widely believed - is that Mr Ahmadinejad and his cabinet have signed a "contract" pledging themselves to work for the return of the Mahdi and sent it to Jamkaran.

Iran's dominant "Twelver" sect believes this will be Mohammed ibn Hasan, regarded as the 12th Imam, or righteous descendant of the Prophet Mohammad.

He is said to have gone into "occlusion" in the ninth century, at the age of five. His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war and bloodshed. After a cataclysmic confrontation with evil and darkness, the Mahdi will lead the world to an era of universal peace.

This is similar to the Christian vision of the Apocalypse. Indeed, the Hidden Imam is expected to return in the company of Jesus.

Mr Ahmadinejad appears to believe that these events are close at hand and that ordinary mortals can influence the divine timetable.

The prospect of such a man obtaining nuclear weapons is worrying. The unspoken question is this: is Mr Ahmadinejad now tempting a clash with the West because he feels safe in the belief of the imminent return of the Hidden Imam? Worse, might he be trying to provoke chaos in the hope of hastening his reappearance?

The 49-year-old Mr Ahmadinejad, a former top engineering student, member of the Revolutionary Guards and mayor of Teheran, overturned Iranian politics after unexpectedly winning last June's presidential elections.

The main rift is no longer between "reformists" and "hardliners", but between the clerical establishment and Mr Ahmadinejad's brand of revolutionary populism and superstition.

Its most remarkable manifestation came with Mr Ahmadinejad's international debut, his speech to the United Nations.

World leaders had expected a conciliatory proposal to defuse the nuclear crisis after Teheran had restarted another part of its nuclear programme in August.

Instead, they heard the president speak in apocalyptic terms of Iran struggling against an evil West that sought to promote "state terrorism", impose "the logic of the dark ages" and divide the world into "light and dark countries".

The speech ended with the messianic appeal to God to "hasten the emergence of your last repository, the Promised One, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace".

In a video distributed by an Iranian web site in November, Mr Ahmadinejad described how one of his Iranian colleagues had claimed to have seen a glow of light around the president as he began his speech to the UN.

"I felt it myself too," Mr Ahmadinejad recounts. "I felt that all of a sudden the atmosphere changed there. And for 27-28 minutes all the leaders did not blink…It's not an exaggeration, because I was looking.

"They were astonished, as if a hand held them there and made them sit. It had opened their eyes and ears for the message of the Islamic Republic."

Western officials said the real reason for any open-eyed stares from delegates was that "they couldn't believe what they were hearing from Ahmadinejad".

Their sneaking suspicion is that Iran's president actually relishes a clash with the West in the conviction that it would rekindle the spirit of the Islamic revolution and - who knows - speed up the arrival of the Hidden Imam.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/14/wiran14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/14/ixworld.html

[PELASGOS]

The question is how Israel will be annihilated without harming Palestine.:roll:

[S'13]

The question is how Israel will be annihilated without harming Palestine.

Who cares, as long as it will bring the return of the "12th Imam"...

[cosimo]

Thanks for the information about this fella, I hadn't realised it was that bad.

[XShipRider]

It's puzzling, it's like he actually wants this to go further.. Why not just keep these emotions of his to himself? Who is he trying to scare?
Holy war... jihad... East vs. West.... take your pick.

Presumption - he will take a shot at Israel in the future.
He knows the US will use massive retaliation, unilateral if
need be, which will kill innocents. His aim - drive a permanent
wedge between Islam and the infidels [sic]. Ignition of
WWIII would be to his benefit, at least in his mind.

Of course, he wouldn't be around to see it once the fissionable
and fusionable material starts to fall. Though I still have my
doubts as to whether the US would use any type of nuclear
device in any retaliatory or pre-emptive, for that matter, strike.

At least that's what it appears to me.

[annihilation]

This **** really doesn't help their cause. I wonder if anyone screens what he is about to say. As much as I don't want america to get involved with Iran. But comments like that make it difficult not to go with striking first. As sad as it can be. Nothing good is going to come out of this situation.

[cbreedon]

Kind of reminded me of this:

"We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down."
(Hitler, prior to the invasion of Russia)

Makes you think, doesn't it...

Probably would have been true if Hitler hadn't started killing all the civilians. The Germans were being greated as liberators for a while.

[haze99]

What a misguided man! Whoa! to the nation that threathens Israel!

Obviously, his advisers have not told him what is written in the Christian Bible. For I have found no evidence, that says the nation of Israel will be destroyed! (quite the opposite!)

And while the West may be decadent! Countries like Iran are not high on the favorite places to raise a family and buy property!