Posted on 06/30/2005 10:30:49 PM PDT by truth_seeker
Iran's president-elect has proclaimed an Islamic revolution of global proportions.
Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election coincided with what he termed a new Islamic revolution.
"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world," Ahmadinejad said. "In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years." Ahmadinejad, who did not elaborate, was speaking to the families of those killed in a 1981 attack at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, Middle East Newsline reported.
The Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the nation's missile and nuclear weapons programs, and has been identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The 49-year-old Ahmadinejad, who participated in the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Teheran, in 1979, was regarded as the most anti-Western of the presidential candidates. On June 24, he defeated Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who headed the Expediency Council, the regime's watchdog over what had been a reformist-dominated parliament. "Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 [the current Iranian year] will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. "The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end."
The speech marked the first time since the late 1980s that an Iranian president vowed to export Islamic insurgency throughout the world. Allies of Ahmadinejad said the president-elect, who takes office in August, would seek to revive the principles of the Islamic revolution in 1978. They said Ahmadinejad would also seek to impose Islamic behavior in public, including strict enforcement of a dress code.
"Islamic and revolutionary culture have been neglected in the past years," Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad Taqi Rahbar said.
Iran has been cited as the leading financier of groups that appear on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations. Iran's leading clients have been the Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both sponsored by Teheran, as well as Hamas and the Syrian-aligned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
I hope the rest of the war goes as well for them. They're belligerent, but not very bright.
"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs,..."
Yep, Jihadist speak for sure.
If the hostages had been Israelis, the Mossad would have executed this guy a long time ago. We should learn from them.
That's a good picture. Makes me want to shave the new president to see if there's such a pronounced cleft.
And atheist. Don't forget the atheistic paradises of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot.
Beg to differ, but the Japanese were pretty damn fanatical. The "Rape of Nanking", the kamikazes, and hundreds of our soldiers who were summarily beheaded after capture were almost unprecedented in the level of cruelty the Japanese army displayed -- heck, the Japanese government envisioned sending every man, woman, and child into battle if it came to that. The firebombing of Tokyo cured the civilian population of any fanaticism they had. We haven't come close to approaching the amount of death and destruction we inflicted (rightfully) on the Japanese in terms of the current conflict.
But you are right - there is neither skill nor civilization in the Middle East....
Death Cult mumbo-jumbo.
I guess I should put that in quotes - "take back". IIRC, this was what precipitated the Iran-Iraq war (that and an assassination attempt on Tariq Aziz). I'd have to go back and read up on my history of that war, but I believe that control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway has been in dispute since the 1970's because it's essential to both country's oil production.
"Death Cult mumbo-jumbo."
Definitely Death Cult. However, at this time I'm more inclined to say that this Iranian Jihadist Code Talk.
Interesting thought, hadn't yet occurred to me. Lurch is supposed to be the great debater, and except for the Lazio/Clinton debacle, Hillary! has never had to participate in debates. Watching "F'n" and the Hildabeast "debate" in the '08 primaries will be a popcorn event!
"In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years."
Unfortunatley, it was 100 years backwards in time.
Too late. Pakistan already has them. Pakistan will retaliate if we nuke Iran. They won't retaliate if we use conventional weapons to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons.
I am not one of those who is always thinking and talking about the anti-Christ, but when I saw this guys picture the other day, the thought popped into my mind. This is the anti-Christ!
I'm not claiming they weren't fanatics. (The guys at the Alamo were fanatics, too). Just that they had built a civilization. They had steel mills and designed torpedoes and massive battleships. The Muddled East gets paid for oil they do not even extract themselves to buy junker aircraft that they cannot fly against us. As a foe or a friend, I'll take the Japanese over these Islamidiots any day.
When they put the guy with the red circle around his head from the original picture, side by side, with the "elected" pres, the schnozola's and ears don't match.
These two pictures look like the same person.
I'm experiencing Deja'Vu, we have high gas prices, the idiots in Iran are making noises. But we don't have Carter in the whitehouse this time........
this would be my comeback to this moron, if I had a chance...
Hey bunghole, you have an American Army on your Western border (within 4 hours of Tehran) and an American Army on your Eastern Border (where you dont have many people on the ground). Both are battle tested and fit. What was it you said again? Dominate the world? Hell, you dont even dominate your REGION.
Yet another reason never to watch MSM. Brian Williams yesterday if you hadn't seen it:
Many Americans woke up to a curious story this morning: several of the former Iran Hostages have decided there is a stron gresemblance between Iran's new president and one of their captors more than 25 years ago. The White House and most official branches of government are ducking any substantive comment on this story, and photo analysis is going on at this and other news organizations. It is a story that will be at or near the top of our broadcast and certainly made for a robust debate in our afternoon editorial meeting, when several of us raised the point (I'll leave it to others to decide germaneness) that several U.S. presidents were at minimum revolutionaries, and probably were considered terrorists of their time by the Crown in England.
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