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| Khamenei: Calling us facists and Hitler's okay... |
| 2003-02-23 |
| Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Sunday that it was quite justified to call US officials fascists or compare them to Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler. "People of the world have the right to call the American officials fascists and Hitlers since they frankly say that they are only attacking Iraq to secure their own interests, just as Hitler said before attacking any country", Khamenei said. We said that? I must have missed it... He was speaking live on television to cheering crowds Was it followed by a torchlight parade of goose-stepping mullahs and a book-burning? Oh. Sorry. That's us. We're the fascists, right? Iran officially opposes what it terms a unilateral US-led attack on neighbouring Iraq, but has no objection to Iraq's disarmement within the terms of a United Nations Security Council resolution. "If and when the United States attacks Iraq, then they will face so much trouble because the interest they thought they would gain will turn into menaces threatening them," the conservative Iranian leader who rejects the the resumption of ties Washington added. "We're working hard on setting that up now..." "We as a Muslim nation stand against the oppressors, but are against the war and we call upon all Muslims to adhere to Islamic teachings," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Do the people of the world have the right to refer to Iran any way they wish? |
| Posted by: John 2003-02-23 20:43:24 |
| #2 A "unilateral US-led attack" If its unilateral, who are we leading? Must be all those countries we've conquered, right? |
| Posted by: Fleck 2003-02-23 13:34:56 |
| #1 "the interest they thought they would gain will turn into menaces threatening them." Wonder if this is in reference to the WMD's that will supposedly go off when they blow up their oil interests. You know, those WMD's they DON'T have. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-02-23 12:15:04 |