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2010-02-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran leader says Israel's destruction 'imminent'

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 LOL, if this is code language for 'we're gonna nuke Israel as soon as we are able,' I think he is forgetting about the rain of nukes that will fall on him in response.

More likely, just more saber rattling to try to distract the increasingly unruly masses.

Posted by Karl the Fat 2010-02-08 00:54|| 2010-02-08 00:54|| Front Page Top

#2 This is probably more to do with shiite eschatology, the return of the whatever iman, etc, rather than a threat to actually do something.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-08 01:14|| 2010-02-08 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Shiite scatology or not, I think that Israelis are adept at preemptive multitasking.

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-08 03:45|| 2010-02-08 03:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Karl

My worry is there are people in Iran who would sacrifice millions of their own people to destroy Israel!

Posted by Paul2 2010-02-08 07:36|| 2010-02-08 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Paul2, yea, we are lucky that we don't have such sociopaths at the helm here.

Wait...

Posted by twobyfour 2010-02-08 07:50|| 2010-02-08 07:50|| Front Page Top

#6 In other news, horitculturalists needed for massive Hanging Gardens near Babylon.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-02-08 08:20|| 2010-02-08 08:20|| Front Page Top

#7 What say you UN about a member country saying that about another member country? Oh, youre still busy writing Anti-Semitic graffiti at the moment and cant answer?

Posted by Hammerhead 2010-02-08 10:16|| 2010-02-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 #2 This is probably more to do with shiite eschatology, the return of the whatever iman, etc, rather than a threat to actually do something.
Posted by: phil_b 2010-02-08 01:14

Glen Beck had an interesting segment on his program one day last week (I forget which day) on this subject, and explained how Ahmadinejad is a "12th'r". Someone who believes in the return on the "12th iman" as a precursor of the triumph of the world wide caliphate. Kinda' like the "end times" believers in Christianity, except 12th'r will go to any means to accelerate the 12th imans' return.

Posted by WolfDog 2010-02-08 11:32|| 2010-02-08 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 We can build an Avitar... we have the technology... unfortunately... He is ugly... But he will say and do what we want him to say and do...
-Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Posted by BigEd 2010-02-08 18:03|| 2010-02-08 18:03|| Front Page Top

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