Ahmadinejad: United States, Israel will soon be destroyed

[democratic]

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report. Iran's official FARS news agency also reported the comments.

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives," the Iranian president was quoted as saying.

"Sparking discord among Muslims, especially between the Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by the Zionists and the US for dominating regional nations and looting their resources," Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356154,00.html

[Deep13]

1. Apparently, Bush will be the instrument of that destruction.

Thanks, George.

[AndyA]

2. His days of power in Iraq are numbered. Perhaps he should focus on things at

home before he goes off spouting lies about other countries. I've heard support for him is slipping badly among the Iranian people. Seems they aren't too happy with the job he's doing.

Gosh, he and Bush have more in common than they think...

[democratic]

3. .

Andy Iran is a dictatorship not a democracy so support slipping is a off the question is why is the dictatorship in Iran all the sudden turning against this guy he was their darling of the world and why is the media all the sudden turning on him? Sounds like he wasn't a good enough puppet of the Ayatollahs.

[AndyA]

4. I understand that.

However, the fact is support for this guy is slipping, and it will be more difficult for him to do what he wants to do because of it.

[dipsydoodle]

5. "according to the report"

Might be good idea to find out who did the translation.

Here's a link from DU yesterday concerning the original bastardised translation :
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NOR20070120&articleId=4527

[democratic]

6. Here we go again

Ahmadinejad has officially been mistranslated 1,525,262,626 times now.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Perhaps you could give us all a disertation

substantiating that the translation in the link I provided is incorrect.

[democratic]

8. I speak

Farsi it's incorrect the original quote was correct and so have all the subsequent ones I'm not sure who pays these people to say his quotes are mistranslated?

Do you know them? What kind of political agenda do you have? Why did you push this type of agenda and why did this guy get full support from US media and all sudden get the drop?

Lots of good questions for the good ole people who helped usher his up to usher him down.

[struggle4progress]

9. Iranian artists and scholars denounce Holocaust-denier conference

NEW YORK (AP) - More than 100 Iranian artists, scholars and human rights activists, including the author of the best-selling memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran," have denounced the country's sponsorship of a conference that featured deniers of the Holocaust.

A statement in the Feb. 15 edition of The New York Review of Books criticized "the new brand of anti-Semitism prevalent in the Middle East today" and paid "homage to the memory of the millions of Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust." It also condemned the Iranian government for "its attempt to falsify history."

Azar Nafisi, author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," helped organize the statement along with human rights activists Roya and Ladan Boroumand ...

http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=95067

[struggle4progress]

10. Old rival tests Ahmadinejad's nerve

... The Guardian reported last week that Mr Ahmadinejad's authority was under pressure from critical MPs and an increasingly concerned Mr Khamenei. The re-emergence of Mr Rafsanjani contradicts widely held assumptions that his presidential defeat had diminished his influence. His increasing prominence comes after he won the most votes in elections to the experts' assembly, an important clerical body.

Mr Rafsanjani this week criticised Mr Ahmadinejad's government for failing to privatise state enterprises, a policy agreed under Iran's constitution and supported by Mr Khamenei. He said Iran's economy would be overtaken by poorer neighbouring countries if prized national assets remained under state control. Mr Ahmadinejad, who has promised to redistribute wealth and alleviate poverty, favours a bigger government role in the economy.

Mr Rafsanjani's comments added to widespread anger over Mr Ahmadinejad's economic policies, which have been widely denounced for stoking inflation and failing to halt unemployment.

Supposedly like-minded MPs in the fundamentalist-dominated parliament have launched a petition summoning the president to answer questions. It has gathered 63 signatures and needs nine more to be effective. Meanwhile, proceedings are underway to impeach four of his ministers accused of incompetence. Insiders say there is enough anger at Mr Ahmadinejad for a majority of MPs to want to impeach him and remove him from office.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1998047,00.html

[Eugene]

11. Ahmadinejad can talk himself hoarse. He doesn't control squat in foreign relations.

The President of Iran has no authority over foreign policy, the police, the
intelligence services, or the Revolutionary Guards. At most, he persuaded the
Ayatollah and the Parliament to put fellow hard-liners in charge of diplomacy.
They just screwed up. They let Yosemite Sam Bolton's crew outmaneuver them at
the UN and get the convince Security Council to impose sanctions. The Ayatollah
is not happy.

As President, Ahmadinejad's main job is to mind the store while the clerics
make policy. He got elected in 2005 by promising to fix Iran's economy.
His bellicose rhetoric and antisemitic antics aren't getting the job done.

Khameni is talking to the reformers. The Parliament has rebuked Ahmadinejad.
His allies were beaten in elections last month, and he is fighting for his
political life.

Tough talk without the authority to back it up is hot air.

From Todays Guardian...

4.30pm
Tehran power struggle intensifies

Robert Tait in Tehran
Wednesday January 24, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Iran's beleaguered president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is facing a powerful challenge from his
fiercest political rival for control of the country's nuclear and economic policies.

Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pragmatic conservative who was defeated by Mr Ahmadinejad in the 2005
presidential election, believes Iran may have to yield to western demands to suspend uranium
enrichment in order to save the country's Islamic system from collapse.

He is trying to persuade the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - who has the
final say in all state matters - that further negotiations are essential to avoid a potentially
disastrous conflict with the US or Israel.

Mr Rafsanjani demonstrated his growing influence over the nuclear issue in a meeting today
with Britain's ambassador to Tehran, Geoffrey Adams. He told Mr Adams that Iran was willing
to submit to "any verifying measures by the responsible authorities" to prove the peaceful
nature of its nuclear programme, which many in the west suspect is aimed at developing an
atomic bomb.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1997721,00.html

[tom_paine]

12. The sad thing is, Little Boots Bushler is helping them towads that goal immensely

Almost as if he WANTED the US and Israel to be destroyed (so he and his sturmtruppen can control the ashes?).

The US has never been weaker, and has just lured Israel into a proxy war which was, I believe, the first time they failed to achieve a clear victory (I am laying aside any disagreement I have with Bush/Olmert policy for the sake of analysis, but flame me pointlessly if you wish) and Hezbollah did a better and more thorough job of rebuilding Southern Lebanon than the Bushlers, with their Third-World levels of fund diversions, did of rebuilding New Orleans.

Little Boots Bushler could not have weakened and damaged the US and Israel if he had been trying to do so (maybe he IS trying).

[oblivious]

13. Does he say how they will be destroyed?