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Iran : A list of fresh threats

munaeem | 28 January, 2007 23:53

Your Ad Here The president of Iran has issued a list of threats through Hussein Shariatmadari, Editor of the daily Kayhan, and a key spokesman for the radical Khomeinist faction.

"The Americans must be made to understand the horrible consequences of any foolish act He then listed a series of warnings:

*** The Islamic Republic would attack American and allied troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

*** The Islamic Republic will stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, depriving the global market of 24 million barrels each day

*** A storm of missiles will be unleashed against Israel, turning that country into "an earthly hell before they go to the real hell."

 

*** Arab countries allied to the US will see their very existence endangered.

 

*** The peoples of Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and "parts of Arabia" will be invited to state uprisings against their governments to take revenge from their rulers.

 

What does all this remind you of? The obvious answer is " Saddam Hussein and his delusions in 2003. The late Ba'athist leader was also confident that Arab divisions, Western rivalries, and the peculiarities of the democratic system in the United States would , in the end, shield his regime against any attack. Remakes of old movies, like " The Return of Tarzan", are seldom successful.

The same is true of a return of Saddam Hussein, this time with a beard and a blouson. Accusing the radical faction of insouciance, the conservative faction within the regime believes that the threat of war should be taken seriously.

 

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the standard-bearer of the conservatives, has told several meetings that unless the current trajectory is corrected, the regime was heading for war with the United States.

Rafsanjani's warning has been echoed by his protégés among the political mullahs, including former President Muhammad Khatami and former Speaker of the Islamic Majlis Mahdi Karrubi. The question is : will they be heard before it is too late?

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xexon | 29/01/2007, 00:54

The president of Iran does not matter. He is a mouth for other people.

Ayathollah Ali al-Hussayni al-Khamene’i is the real power in Iran. Nobody scratches their head without this man's permission first.

Don't watch the bouncing red ball. Watch the hand that makes it bounce.

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blogerette | 29/01/2007, 07:48

The Iranian president is anything but a wise man. That said, I still wonder how authentic this "report" is.

When he said he will wipe Israel off the map, you, Munaeem, later reported that he did not in fact say that. How do we know he actually said the things mentioned in this post?

We don't. Not unless we conducted that interview with him (which we didn't, of course).

BTW, why are you going to leave us, Munaeem? We're used to reading your blog here :S

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