Iran’s President: Israel Should Be “Wiped Off the Map”
From the president of one of the (correctly-labelled) axis of evil countries:
Iran’s hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run media reported Wednesday.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced attempts to recognize Israel or normalize relations with it.
“There is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad told students Wednesday during a Tehran conference called “The World without Zionism.”
“Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury, (while) any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world,” Ahmadinejad said.
Ahmadinejad also repeated the words of the founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who called for the destruction of Israel.
“As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Ahmadinejad, who came to power in August and replaced Mohammad Khatami, a reformist who advocated international dialogue and tried to improve Iran’s relations with the West.
Perhaps he just wanted to clear up any lingering ‘confusion’ anyone in the rest of the world may have had as to where he stood on Israel.
More from Captain Ed:
The Iranians need to learn a lesson about explicit calls for terror attacks on another sovereign nation. Perhaps the Israelis will teach it to them, if the EU-3 and the US can’t find the time or the nerve to do so. We already know that terrorists such as Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, get most of their funding through the Iranian mullahs. Do we need to wait until they respond to Ahmadinejad’s overt signals to attack before we do something about it?
Yep. I predict it won’t be long before Israel takes matters into their own hands. As would be their right, considering that Ahmadinejad has just called for their extermination.
Cross-posted at SisterToldjah
October 26th, 2005 at 8:06 am
Iran leader: Israel should be “wiped off the map”
From the president of one of the (correctly labelled) axis of evil countries:
Iran’s hard-line president called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks will destroy the Jewish state, state-run…
October 26th, 2005 at 10:22 am
Just curious…what exactly do we get in exchange for our blind support of Israel? Not being snarky, I just don’t get why we pay billions for people to live where they aren’t wanted.
October 26th, 2005 at 11:12 am
The right, always finding reason for war.
The Iranians can point at Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ speech and threads like this and say how they must use force against the threat we pose to them.
We point at that speech and say we must use force to stop the threat they pose to us.
The only answer, as always, is force and war.
When will the right ever get it? How this is used to manipulate them for war for reasons having nothing to do, much of the time, with any real threat?
It’s a never-ending cycle with them of war, and causing yet more war.
It’s strongly pro-Israel advisors who led the US to war in Iraq - appointed by Bush to do just that - in no small part to give us military bases bordering Iran and other countries to better be able to attack them. Read the PNAC documents sometime.
Of course we want Israel to have the right to exist - and as our largest recipient of military aid, they have that. By our actions, we can prevent peace. How can Iran have peace with us? Consider our history:
- Before ours starts, there was England’s abusive colonialism in the region.
- In 1953, we overthrew democracy in Iran to further our and England’s interests.
This led to 25 years of terrible oppression by the Shah.
- Following the Shah’s overthrow, we supported Iraq in a brutal war on Iran.
This included supplying WMD to Iraq, and hardly a wrist slap for their use on Iran.
- Following that, comes the PNAC doctrines for overthrowing their government.
Maybe sometime we should try something which wouldn’t make US go to war if done to us.
What has Iran ever done to us that compares to the above? And WE’RE the righteous ones?
October 26th, 2005 at 2:34 pm
Calling all Chicken Hawks!
California Conservative is declaring a new war. Perhaps all of you C.H’s will actually go fight this one instead of cowardly forcing others to die on your behalf.
bok bok, Chicken Hawk
October 26th, 2005 at 2:47 pm
madmatt-
Ask and you shall receive. The answer to your question is here:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1000/1000_01.asp
October 26th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
Terrorist in a Business Suit.
Stacy Clinton Say: Mahmoud needs to draw attention away from his murderous jihadi bloodlust with a nice, conservative business suit. Mahmoud defiantly refuses to listen to Tyra Banks’ advice: This is my signature walk and this is the walk
October 26th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
Islamic Jihad
“War on Terror”, “Osama Bin Laden”, “Suicide Bombers”, “Insurgents”, “Regime Change”, “Spreading Democracy”, …..blah, blah blah.
In light of the above, more should be don…
October 26th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Nice post, Cal. Conservative. too bad the US invasion of Iraq has strengthened these hardliner Iranian leaders. So I guess the war didn’t actually “make us safer” then, huh? or Israel.
but funny I don’t see you making that point…..
October 29th, 2005 at 1:47 pm
The Iranian dictator who was allowed to visit the UN now calls for Israel’s destruction
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, whom Dubya allowed to enter the US to attend the United Nations summit recently, has now taken off his mask and shown himself for what he truly is
March 12th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
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Payday Loan
April 28th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
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