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| Iran's supreme leader accuses US of terrorism |
| 2011-06-26 |
| [Dawn] Iran's supreme leader on Saturday accused the United States of supporting terrorism, pointing to American drone strikes in Pakistain and Afghanistan that he said have killed scores of civilians. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a country whose military forces are responsible for such deaths can't lecture the world about fighting terror. Strong anti-US salvos are heard regularly from Iran's leadership. Saturday's statement by Khamenei revealed the differences between Iran and the US on the issue of who is a terrorist and who is a freedom fighter. "The US and the European governments that follow it describe Paleostinian combatant groups who fight for the liberation of their land as terrorists," Khamenei said in a written message to an international conference on combating terrorism that opened Saturday in Tehran. At the same time, Khamenei said, Israeli military strikes that hit civilians or liquidations of Paleostinians by Israeli security agents are not condemned by the West as acts of terrorism. Iranian leaders say Paleostinian groups and the Lebanese Hezbullies are fighting to liberate occupied lands. Iran openly praises groups such as Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which have grabbed credit for suicide kabooms and other attacks. Khamenei said Iran was a victim of what he called US "terrorism" for the 1988 downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the warship USS Vincennes, which killed all 290 people aboard. The US Defense Department said at the time that the crew mistook the plane for a hostile aircraft, which Iran rejects. Later Saturday, Khamenei warned visiting Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... that the United States is seeking to set up permanent bases in Afghanistan. "Americans are after setting up permanent bases in Afghanistan. This is a dangerous issue. As long as American troops are based in Afghanistan, there will be no real security," state TV quoted Khamenei as saying. The United States has said it will have all its fighting forces out of Afghanistan by 2014 and that the security of Afghanistan will be turned over to Afghan forces. The US has not asked for any bases or centers to remain under its control. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Terrorism is when Khamenei wakes up with a pig's head in his bed, to find all his bodyguards bound and gagged and unconscious, his male secretary naked and tied across his desk, and then Khamenei realizes that his toenails have been painted bright pink. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-26 09:04 |