Iran at it again! Increasing Anti-Israel Attitude by Iranian President!

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Coming Soon to a Theatre of WAR near You:

Iran's anti-Israel remarks can lead to EU sanctions

Associated Press

Brussels (Belgium), December 17, 2005


Iran could face sanctions if it keeps provoking Israel and the West, European leaders have warned, even as the Tehran regime's interior minister said the Iranian president's remarks had been "misunderstood."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad aggravated tensions with the West this week by calling the Holocaust a "myth," a statement that came two months after he called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

European leaders on Friday said Ahmadinejad's remarks were the latest "provocative political moves" from Tehran since May.
"These comments are wholly unacceptable and have no place in civilised political debate," said a draft statement that EU leaders were expected to adopt at a summit at EU headquarters.

EU leaders warned Tehran they would review diplomatic options for possible sanctions against Iran.
The condemnation came as Iran prepares to resume talks on Wednesday with European envoys over its nuclear programme, which the EU and United States fear is intended to build atomic weapons. Envoys from Britain, Germany and France are trying to get Tehran to halt uranium enrichment.
EU leaders, who were still meeting early on Saturday, warned in their statement that the bloc was losing patience on mediating the standoff. "The window of opportunity will not remain open indefinitely."

The leaders said they were "gravely concerned at Iran's failure to build confidence that its nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful," adding that recent decisions to resume work on enriching uranium "only add to the EU's profound concerns about Iran's intentions.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/1...1301970000.htm

F*ck u Iran! go screw urself Iran and if u want take pakis along with u to ur grave, it would be a even better riddance! and if u want India, Israel, US and EU will be willing to blast u and ur f*cking mullahs to stone ages!

[echarcha]

Iran is the ture axis of evil member.

[mumbai_masti]

This is called "AA bail muje maar" attitude....by his comments like this he will not only invite sanction but wrath of america and other countries too..which are trying to find another target desperately after saddam...

[Cooldude]

This Iranian President just can't keep his mouth shut!

http://www.echarcha.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21653

While all Arab neighbours of Israel are showing level headedness & restraint, Iran is only asking for more trouble. Such hostile rhetorics will only lead to further increasing isolation of Iran..

[echarcha]

I feel that all those who surround Israel and hate it are purely doing it out of jealousy. They cannot understand or tolerate that Israel rose up from nothing. They hate that Israel converted a desert lot into a successful country and that Israel can actually have progress without having oil like they do. Religion based hatred has always been deep rooted there in the Middle East, but jealousy is also a major factor.

Anyway, did anyone check if its election time in Iran? If there are elections held in Iran and if its election time right now then all this rhetoric might be part of electioneering and campaigning.

[viking]

Maybe it's time Natwar Singh or some Kangresswala visits Iran and gets some favours done before Iran goes to war with America!

I think this time Kangress can take lessons from the Volcker controversy and be more careful!

[echarcha]

if Iran gets into conflict with Israel, what happens to the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline?

[rameshp]

Originally Posted by echarcha

if Iran gets into conflict with Israel, what happens to the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline?

do u even think that this pipeline is ever gonna be built?? its just india's tool to get uncle sam's nuke tech and other goodies!

how did u even think our babus in foriegn and internal ministries will let this pipeline be built esp with a f*ck all nation like pukistan in the middle?

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As Ariel Sharon is bedridden & in a critical condition, Israel prays for the quick recovery of their leader.

But the loud mouth Iranian President hopes for his death.

Iranian President Hopes Sharon Perishes

TEHRAN, Iran -Iran's president said Thursday he hoped for the death of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the latest anti-Israeli comment by a leader who has already provoked international criticism for suggesting that Israel be "wiped off the map."

"Hopefully, the news that the criminal of Sabra and Chatilla has joined his ancestors is final," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.

Ahmadinejad was referring to Sharon, who as defense minister in 1982 directed Israel's ill-fated invasion of Lebanon. An Israeli commission found him indirectly responsible for a massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps by Christian Phalangist soldiers.

Iran's official media, including state-run radio and television, did not report Ahmadinejad's remarks about Sharon.

"Hopefully, others (criminals like him) will join him too," ISNA quoted Ahmadinejad as telling a group of clerics in Qom, a holy city 80 miles south of the capital, Tehran. He spoke a day after the 77-year-old Sharon suffered a massive stroke and underwent surgery.

U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack termed the remarks "hateful and disgusting."

"And this is a man who wraps himself in the cloak of a peaceful religion, Islam, and yet you hear remarks like this coming from him," McCormack said. "This regime has isolated the Iranian people from the rest of the world in a matter of months — through its actions and its statements."

The statement attributed to Ahmadinejad ultimately "is sadly not surprising given what we have seen come out from this president before," McCormack said.

In the last two months, Ahmadinejad has called the Holocaust a "myth" and said if Europeans insist it did occur, then they should give some of their own land for a Jewish state, rather than the one in the Middle East. He also called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

[Zorro]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/05/rob...ron/index.html

Robertson suggests God smote Sharon

(CNN) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson suggested Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's stroke was divine retribution for the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, which Robertson opposed.

"He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club."

"God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said.

Robertson's show airs on the ABC Family cable network and claims about 1 million viewers daily.

Sharon, 77, clung to life in a Jerusalem hospital Thursday after surgery to treat a severe stroke, his doctors said.

The prime minister, who withdrew Israeli settlers and troops from Gaza and parts of the West Bank last summer over heated objections from his own Likud Party, was breathing with the aid of a ventilator after doctors operated to stop the bleeding in his brain.

In Washington, President Bush offered praise for Sharon in a speech on Thursday.

"We pray for his recovery," Bush said. "He's a good man, a strong man. A man who cared deeply about the security of the Israeli people, and a man who had a vision for peace. May God bless him."

Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, compared Robertson's remarks to the overheated rhetoric of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Full story)

He called the comments "outrageous" and said they were not something to expect "from any of our friends."

"He is a great friend of Israel and a great friend of Prime Minister Sharon himself, so I am very surprised," Ayalon told CNN.

Robertson, 75, founded the Christian Coalition and in 1988 failed in a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He last stirred controversy in August, when he called for the assassination of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez. (Full story)

Robertson later apologized, but still compared Chavez to Hitler and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in the process.

The same month, the Anti-Defamation League criticized Robertson for warning that God would "bring judgment" against Israel for its withdrawal from Gaza, which it had occupied since the 1967 Mideast war.

Robertson said Thursday that Sharon was "a very likable person, and I am sad to see him in this condition."

He linked Sharon's health problems to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin, who signed the Oslo peace accords that granted limited self-rule to Palestinians.

"It was a terrible thing that happened, but nevertheless, now he's dead," Robertson said.

Rabin was gunned down by a religious student opposed to the Oslo accords. The killer, Yigal Amir, admitted to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.

Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, criticized Robertson's comments Thursday, saying the televangelist "has a political agenda for the entire world."

"He seems to think God is ready to take out any world leader who stands in the way of that agenda," Lynn said in a written statement.

"A religious leader should not be making callous political points while a man is struggling for his life," he said. "I'm appalled."

Ralph Neas, president of liberal advocacy group People for the American Way, said "it is astonishing that Pat Robertson still wields substantial influence" in the Republican Party.

"Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance," Neas said in a written statement.

According to The Associated Press, Robertson spokeswoman Angell Watts said of people who criticized the comments: "What they're basically saying is, 'How dare Pat Robertson quote the Bible?'"

"This is what the word of God says," Watts told the AP. "This is nothing new to the Christian community."