Posted on 11/29/2005 7:00:38 PM PST by DoctorZIn
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Iran president had ‘religious vision’ during UN speech
By Gareth Smyth and Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran
Published: November 28 2005 19:12 | Last updated: November 28 2005 19:12
A leading website in Iran has published a transcript and video recording of President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad claiming to have felt “a light” while addressing world leaders at the United Nations in New York in September. Baztab.com – a website linked to Mohsen Rezaei, former commander of the Revolutionary Guards – said the recording was made in a meeting between the president and Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi-Amoli, one of Iran’s leading Shia Muslim clerics.
According to the transcript, Mr Ahmadi-Nejad said someone present at the UN, possibly from his entourage, subsequently told him: “When you began with the words ‘In the name of God’… I saw a light coming, surrounding you and protecting you to the end [of the speech].” Mr Ahmadi-Nejad said he sensed a similar presence.
“I felt it myself, too, that suddenly the atmosphere changed and for 27-28 minutes the leaders could not blink,” the transcript continues. “I am not exaggerating…because I was looking. All the leaders were puzzled, as if a hand held them and made them sit. They had their eyes and ears open for the message from the Islamic Republic.”
Baztab.com quoted little of Ayatollah Javadi-Amoli’s reaction to Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s claims, other than his call for officials “to carry out promises and refuse to fool people”.
Some clerics are already uneasy at Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s religious beliefs, especially his emphasis on the “missing imam” – the Shia leader who entered occultation in 941 and whom Shia believe will return to rule before Judgment Day.
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad referred to the imam during his UN speech and his cabinet has allocated $17m for renovating Jamkaran mosque near the holy city of Qom, which pilgrims believe the imam visits on Tuesdays.
After watching the video on Baztab.com, Akbar Alami, a parliamentary deputy, told the semi-official news agency ILNA he hoped that it was not being distributed by people “close to the president” to make criticism of him “taboo among ordinary people”.
The Farda.com website, which is close to Ahmad Tavakoli, a leading fundamentalist deputy, took the opposite view. Noting the availability of DVDs of the meeting, it warned that Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s opponents were behind distribution as “a pretext to insult him”.
Mr Alami highlighted the acute sensitivity of the issue by referring to Ali Mohammad Shirazi, a 19th-century Iranian scholar executed by firing squad after first claiming to be the “bab” (gate) to the missing imam and then to be the imam himself.
“The president should not be affected by fake inducement, machinations and praise by people around him,” he said. “From time to time, he might be told some nonsense as in New York.”
- Adnkronos International reported that an Iranian parliamentarian, a member of Iran's Zoroastrian religious minority has been summoned to appear before the country's Revolutionary Tribunal for protesting remarks that Non-Muslims "cannot be called human beings but are animals" made by a close aide to Iran's Supreme Leader.
- Amy Kellogg, FOX News released part seven of her reports from inside Iran: The Ties That Bind Iran, Iraq. Video also available.
- Iran Focus reported that Rafsanjani said the United States was faced with the problem of Islamic ideology in Iraq.
- Spiegel provides more details on attempts by Tehran to lend Pyongyang a helping hand against western pressure for North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program.
- Bill Samii and Fatemeh Aman, Radio Free Europe reported on how Iran is breaking the will of political prisoners.
- Arab Times reported on a conference on Nato and the Greater Middle East wrapped up deliberations here on Sunday.
- The Wall Street Journal asked how can we trust the Russians to resolve the Iranian crisis over its nuclear program given its own history.
- Lillian Swift, The Telegraph UK reported on Iran's War on Weblogs citing this blog is blocked by the Iranian regime.
- And finally, Gooya News published many photos of a demonstration in Tehran's Polytechnic.
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There was no light , but the stench was something awful.
HS Thompson said that.
Just a little bit weird.
“I felt it myself, too, that suddenly the atmosphere changed and for 27-28 minutes the leaders could not blink,” the transcript continues. “I am not exaggerating…because I was looking. All the leaders were puzzled, as if a hand held them and made them sit. They had their eyes and ears open for the message from the Islamic Republic.”
This does not say a lot about Iran's stability, to say the least.
If some members of the government are comparing Ahmadenjad to the Bab (who was executed by a 750-man firing squad) we may be in for some fireworks.
I wish that sheethead would have a "Nuclear vision" while visiting his living room.
along with the gutted goat hanging in his room at the hotel. LALALALLAALALALALALAL!
5.56mm
THAT'S the kind of LIGHT he needs to see/feel/experience....soon.
HaH! Yes they were puzzled... about why an Iranian president would tell them that his government is opposed to perfectly rational suggestions to relieve international concerns over his country's nuclear weapons program.
Aha...devine intervention invoked to save mankind from its infidel tendencies!
Send Gabriel and Michael on down and show this shiv what real revelation is all about?
( Hint: God is on my side so he can't be on yours?)
What a doofus!
I hove got the video of the event!
http://web.peykeiran.com/net_ir_img/31.wmv
I had a vision once. I won't go into the details but it involved myself, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and a large can of chocolate syrup.
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"They had their eyes and ears open for the message from the Islamic Republic.”
Very strange.
Islam is evil.
That wasn't a sign of the Divine - it was a sign of Glaucoma or other medical disorder.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/visual_halo.htm#list
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