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.
Unless they give up Islam, there is no hope for them. Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Hinduist or Athiest...anything but Islam. Would be nice if they could converse with ancient Ninevah.
If you saw Larry King Monday night after GW's speech, Kerry was going at it, hammer and tongs, same old baloney. He thinks '08 will be his year, and he's nuts. Hill will pulverize him.
And Hill will in turn be pulverized by someone else. The candidate debates will reveal how lousy she is at thinking on her feet.
As a declared State Sponsor of Terrorism, Iran needs to clean up it's own act before repeating the DNC talking points of the Day. the claim that Bush is Hitler, is so far out in left field that I hope the RATS keep it up, Their days are numbered
I think H will lose, too, but the MSM will cover for her 24/7. The primary debates should be quite amusing. I wonder who else will throw a hat in the ring?
I think you give them too much credit. They are a blunt force kind of group. But you might be right, I guess. We'll see. I think there will be at least one city glowing before the Iranian nuke issue is over, though, one way or the other.
I never watch Larry King, I know Kerry is packing spoiled Bologna, He's nut's! (thats a gimme), and Hitlery I'm sure is fully capable of pulverizing him, however physically kickin' the #$@% out of Kerry, wouldn't give her the Presidency.
Both of them would be fine choices to guarantee another Republican President in '08.
Why did we wait til this jerk was elected before anyone found out who he is?
I couldn't bear to watch Kerry's complete appearance. Ninety seconds was my limit, and that only because I dropped the remote and couldn't find it.
Perhaps a fifth nephew of a friend of a neighbor of Ralph Nader who once played golf with John MaCain's wife's friend who sold Tupperware to a once friend and college class mate of Jeb Bush?
Didn't he serve in Vietnam and was for the war before he was against it?
Yeah, this is scary stuff. This guy is essentially threatening World War - right here, right now.
Yep. I think he must have some sort of death wish....
Let's hope they cover her in a burka!
Of course the MSM would include a Colgate invincible shield with that burka.
And your point is?
How long do you think the "super power" of Iran would exist after toeing the idea?
Place your answer in hours.....
Yes, Kerry was for the war before he was against it, but that was nuancing. The NYTimes assured us nuancing meant he'd 'grown' intellectually. (GW said he didn't do nuance, which meant he'd never get certain cocktail party invites.)
The the warplanners the Pentagon are now burning the midnight oil. Jeez .. another IslamoFascist -- craving world takeover .. where do these people come from?
Exactly!
Still, '08 should be one heck of an election cycle! I wonder how Hill will take the loss. Should be memorable. Maybe she'll settle for Queen of the UN.
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