Posted on 02/20/2006 9:56:28 AM PST by jmc1969
Washington's push for Middle East democracy is resulting in across the board victories for militant Islamic movements, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has boasted in an interview.
Ahmadinejad also branded Western democracy as a "lie", said Islamic militants would not be disarmed and predicted the defeat of the "myth of an invincible and eternal Zionism" enshrined by the state of Israel.
The comments came as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left for a Middle East tour to push efforts to spread democracy and counter what the United States views as an increasingly aggressive Iranian policy.
"The American slogan of democracy has had the reverse effect in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and even Palestine. Everywhere in the Islamic world, when there are free and fair elections, the Islamists and groups favouring resistance are winning," the ultra-conservative president told the official news agency IRNA Sunday.
"The myth of an invincible and eternal Zionism and its ideal (of a greater Israel) from the Nile to the Euphrates was been given a pounding by the 1979 Islamic revolution and has been in retreat ever since," he said.
"The retreat of oppression from Iran, Lebanon and even Palestine are important victories. The Palestinian people voted for resistance to continue and the ideal of a Palestine free of occupation, and not politics in the shadow of Zionism," he added, referring to last month's legislative election win by Hamas.
"This is a first step and other successes will come."
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Well, I guess that's it then. /s
Oh! Oh! Lemme be the first one to say it!...
This Iranian guy sure sounds a lot like Howard Dean.
...yes! :)
My fear is that it IS backfiring, but not for the reason this whack job states.
islam still has it's grip on that part of the world. This oppressive cult chokes the life and creativity out of it's members. I'm very concerned that real democracy can't happen until islam is gone. And that may not be an option, given the rate of spread of the infection to other more civilized parts of the world.
First the cancer must be resected..
Keep in mind that whereas Christianity has had several schisms and a reformation, Islam has remained the same for almost a millenium and a half. They're due for a shakeup, and those come with liberty.
freedomson - a life long browns fan
I think so too. The only thing that has to happen is that something must be done to remove the threat of murder and death by the lunatic mullas and imams. When the crazy islam leadership is killed or somehow persuaded to leave, then islam will be set free and start to die on its own.
The first people to leave will be the women...for they bear the brunt of the brutality and opression of islam...and they have for 1400 years. They are the ones that have had to live in burkas, suffer mutilations, live in ignorance and loneliness...all imposed and enforced by the pain of death by the "leadership".
The dethrones of ME totalitarianism has begun because of the planted seeds of democracy and freedom are now planted, although, it may take hundreds of years to transform the ME. The President is a long term strategic thinker...and human history will reflect it.
The West should expect and even appreciate these sentiments from a tyrant. He knows he is propagating a BIG lie. Hitler was absurdly confident of his future successes and shouted about the failures of his enemies as well. Ahmadinejad and his breed will squeal these sorts of falsehoods until the day liberty chokes the breath out of them. The louder dictators and tyrants shout "Liberty is Failing!" the more confident we in the West should be that the opposite is true.
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