We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah

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http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3111

We defeated U.S., Iran leader tells Hezbollah

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 02 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the visiting leader of Lebanese Hezbollah that the United States has been “genuinely weakened in the region, as shown by its defeat in Iraq and the failure of their plans for Lebanon and Iran”, the official Iranian news agency reported on Tuesday.

“The region is now in a new situation, which means a correct appreciation of the situation, appropriate decisions, and timely actions are going to be very decisive”, Khamenei told Lebanese Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrollah.

“The Americans thought that revolutionary zeal in Iran has been weakened but they were shocked and bewildered by the results of the election and the high turnout, and they have been forced to retreat for a long time to come”.

In an earlier meeting on Monday, Iran's hard-line President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the Hezbollah chief that the Islamic Republic would continue to support the Shiite group.

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[wli]

1. probably would have been best to keep quiet until Cheney got indicted

The neocons are going to have a field day.

[Wetzelbill]

2. no kidding

[Oerdin]

3. Meh

This is just run of the mill propoganda from the Iranian right wing. Even they know that the Iranian right would have lost the last election if it hadn't been rigged and that's why the mullahs "disqualified" (meaning they outlawed) nearly every nonright wing candidate from running. The same sort of retoric has been coming from the mullahs for 26 years and this is nothing new.

[PunkPop]

4. Unfortunately

Georgie's little quagmire in Iraq lends a certain ring of truth to it this time.

That's our Georgie. Providing fodder for the mullahs while simultaneously crippling our own country.

[mmonk]

5. They aren't very smart,

are they? If any US administration would use tactical nukes and such, it's this one.

[Squatch]

6. Sounds like something out of the Kremlin 20 years ago.