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Off Topic - Thought for the day Ahmadinejad: Be careful for what you wish for. You just might get it.

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ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ahmadinejad
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=iran
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=148

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3383152,00.html

Iran denounces UN call for British sailors' release

Published: 03.30.07, 11:40 / Israel News

Iran criticized the United Nation Security Council announcement Thursday appealing to Tehran to release the 15 British sailors captured a week ago. "Unfortunately, the Security Council is being used once again to handle issues that are not under its jurisdiction," Iranian ambassador to the UN told IRNA news agency.

The Security Council refrained from condemning Iran for capturing the sailors, as demanded by Britain. Rather, it expressed "deep concern" over the affair. (AFP)

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27629

"The Next War?"
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 30, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The capture by Iran of fifteen British sailors and marines while they were inspecting a trading dhow in international waters for smuggled goods could be the spark that ignites the next war.
Whether that happens or not will not depend on us, or on the Brits. It will depend on President Ahmadinejad, his backers in Tehran, and Iran’s Supreme Leader.

Clearly, Ahmadinejad and his supporters have been planning this sort of thing for some time.

One week before the kidnapping of the British hostages, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards weekly newspaper, Sobh-e Sadeq, published these incendiary remarks from Reza Fakr, a writer said to have close links to Ahmadinejad:

“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks. Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”

At the time, the Revolutionary Guards were seeking to ”retaliate” for moves by multinational forces in Iraq to crackdown on Iranian intelligence networks in Iraq, including the capture of five Iranian intelligence operatives in Irbil on the night of Jan. 10-11, 2007.

But they had already exacted tit-for-tat retribution in the attack on Karbala on January 20, when what now appears to have been an Iranian snatch team posing as American security guards kidnapped five U.S. soldiers inside an Iraqi army base.

That attack went awry, and the Iranians slaughtered all five Americans instead of taking them hostage.

My sources in Iran tell me that the IRGC leadership realized it was going to be too hard to go after U.S. forces, given stepped up protection measures the Americans instituted after the Karbala incident. So they sought British targets as a substitute.

This hostage-taking was no accident. It didn’t just “happen.” It was part of a centrally-planned and organized strategy to step up tension with the West.”

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http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27416

"Intelligence War in Iran"
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2007

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1530527.ece

From The Sunday Times
March 18, 2007
"Iran to hit back at US ‘kidnaps’"
Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an article in Subhi Sadek, the Revolutionary Guard’s weekly paper, Reza Faker, a writer believed to have close links to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, warned that Iran would strike back.

“We’ve got the ability to capture a nice bunch of blue-eyed blond-haired officers and feed them to our fighting cocks,” he said. “Iran has enough people who can reach the heart of Europe and kidnap Americans and Israelis.”"

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP152707

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1527
March 30, 2007 No.1527

"The Arab Press Assesses the Likelihood of a U.S. Strike Against Iran"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Arab press has recently been focusing on the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran, and has been publishing reports, investigations, and articles. Some of these have asserted the "certainty" of an attack, while others are reviews of attack plans and preliminary steps in advance of the coming conflict. However, some in the press reject the possibility of an attack and explain their reasons for doing so.

The following are examples of discussion of the subject in the Arab press:

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=IA33807

Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 338
March 30, 2007 No.338

"Russia's New Position on Iran's Nuclear Program Creates Iran-Russia Crisis"
By Y. Mansharof*

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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=iran&ID=SP152307

Special Dispatch Series - No. 1523
March 29, 2007 No.1523

"Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Threatens to 'Strike at Them with All Our Capabilities' If Iran Is Attacked"

SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Iranian Leader, Ali Khamenei, which aired on Khorasan TV on March 21, 2007.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1409 "