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| Iran leader condemns US ’stupidity’ |
| 2004-05-17 |
| (We shall see who is stupid very soon.) Iranian Supreme leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned what he described as the "stupid" and "shameless" actions of US troops in the Iraqi Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. This bearded, 7th century looking Shi’ite ’cleric’, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , neglected to include Iran’s ongoing infiltration of hard-core jihadists, and their Tehran ordered methods of instigating fire fights with American, British, Italian, Polish and other Coalition troops whose duty is re-establish order, along with assisting in the rebuilding of the nation Saddam & his Ba’ath Party cohorts ruined. Iran’s dictatorship is fully aware an economically stable Iraq via exporting Iraqi crude oil in huge amounts for needed national revenue, coupled with a higher standard of living (if allowed) will eventually draw the attention of Iran’s dissatisfied population to their own deplorable repressive condition. The ruling, fanatical, Iranian mullahs have had the population of Iran enslaved since 1979. Since over 50% of Iranian were born after Khomeini was allowed to overthrow the Shah in 1979 the younger people of ’Persia’ want the same freedoms other youth have in western nations. The Iranian ’leaders’ of world-wide jihad revolution are on a time table and time is not on their side much longer. He said the abuse of prisoners in Iraq showed that the US had merely taken the place of Saddam Hussein, and that it was time for them to leave the "bog of their own making". The following are excerpts from his remarks, delivered in a speech to theology students and broadcast by Iranian radio: No Muslim, particularly a Shia, can remain calm in the face of the recent events in Najaf and Karbala... [The US soldiers] have taken their tanks and artillery and armed forces to the holy site of Karbala. They have shown disrespect to the sacred dome of the Lord of the Faithful. They have fired bullets at the dome. That is not something that faithful Muslims can tolerate or accept... We would not want to upset the dear peace loving terrorists, would we? Let them hid their imported weapons in the massive Shi’ite cemeteries, and use mosques as operational bases to murder more Americans and anyone else who is on the jihad hit list....it’s okay Iran, although you export thousands of terrorist trained killers into Iraq, we will just roll over....all of you ....with our tanks! The Americans have combined stupidity with shamelessness. They are audacious and unrestrained. They are encroaching upon the people’s sanctities and what the people love... Muslim people, particularly Shia - in our own country or in Iraq, in various Iraqi cities or in other parts of the world - will not remain silent at this American encroachment and audacity... They think they can rule Iraq without any difficulty, take Iraq’s oil and humiliate the Iraqi people. What happened at Abu Ghraib prison showed this, and recently it became clear that this has not happened only at Abu Ghraib. It has happened at all, or at least most, American prisons in Iraq... The president and the gang ruling America say they did not know what was going on. That is how they have apologised. They say they did not know and that they have closed Saddam’s torture chambers... You have not closed Saddam’s torture chambers. You have replaced Saddam... They say they did not know. They are lying, because the Red Cross explicitly declared that it had informed senior army officers and Americans of what was going on a long time ago... It was wrong for the Americans to go into Iraq. It was wrong for them to stay. Their treatment of the people was wrong. Imposing an American ruler on the people was wrong. Going to Karbala and Najaf was wrong. The things that they did recently were especially wrong. They should realise that the Islamic world, and particularly the Shia world, will not remain silent... They have killed the innocent people of Najaf and Karbala. The have killed dozens of people. The crime that they have committed is the greatest of crimes. The Islamic world condemns it. The Iranian nation condemns it. The world’s Shia condemn it. Najaf and Karbala??...WOW we did that ..there was not one terrorist in either one of those rat holes..WOW! The Americans will fail on this path. The more they go along this path, the more they will sink in this bog of their own making... The Americans are trapped. There is nothing they can do. They will fail if they continue along this path, and they will failif they pull out. But continuing will be the greater defeat. Hey, Mr Shi’ite! If you check your road map you shall notice the only one trapped ...........is you! We have you surrounded on Iran’s southern flank in the Gulf! Eastern and western borders, those are ours too...what options remain? Jump in the Caspian Sea and swim for it? That might work :) This crumb must have overdosed on his on verbal rubbish! |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #4 I had an interesting conversation with a young expat Iranian the other day; during the discussion he was curious as to what I knew about Iran. I told him what I know of the geography, language, etc., but when I mentioned that I was aware it was an Islamic country, he went out of his way to inform me that Iran had it's own native religeons before Muslim invaders turned it into an Islamic nation. I came away with the impression that young Iranians do not identify with the ruling mullahs at all, and have a strong sense of Persian nationalism that trumps the Saudi-fostered creed of Global Islamism. In fact, I'm beginning to believe that the Iranian Theocracy really is treading on thin ice these days. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2004-05-17 10:02:01 PM |
| #3 Uh, DBT, you do know the Ka'baa is in Mecca, Saudia Arabia, and not Iran, right? No offense intended; just checking. Although I suppose they *do* wish they could have the holy cities in their loony little Mullahland instead of the Magic Kingdom . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-17 12:36:01 PM |
| #2 Wishful thinking here. Bush-Powell don't have another $150,000,000,000 American taxpayer chump change, to spend on another folly. Take the nukes off the dust gathering shelves, treat the locals like vermin, repatriate the oilfields to Anglo-American interests, and make the Kaba uninhabitable for several hundred years. |
| Posted by: Dog Bites Trolls 2004-05-17 12:32:07 PM |
| #1 Yet he neglects to mention the stupidity of Islamic philosophies . . . and the ultimate ironic twist of a religious nut stuck in the seventh century criticizing modern warfare . . . |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-05-17 12:29:52 PM |