Posted on 07/19/2007 11:57:08 AM PDT by SJackson
Fires apparent warning shot at Israel after meeting with Nasrallah in Damascus; Hizbullah leader reportedly enters Syria via tunnel.
It's going to be a "hot" summer in the Middle East, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following a surprise meeting with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus on Thursday evening, Channel 10 reported.
Nasrallah allegedly entered Syria via an underground tunnel, the television channel said.
"We hope that the hot weather of this summer will coincide with similar victories for the region's peoples, and with consequent defeat for the region's enemies," Ahmadinejad added, in an apparent reference to Israel.
During his one-day trip to Damascus, Ahmadinejad held talks with counterpart Bashar Assad which focused on the Iraq situation, Palestinian territories and Lebanon, where both Teheran and Damascus wield influence.
"The enemies of the region should abandon plans to attack the interests of this region, or they would be burned by the wrath of the region's peoples," the hardline Iranian leader said at a joint press conference with Assad.
Ahmadinejad, accompanied by a high-level delegation, was greeted at Damascus airport by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem ahead of the official reception by Assad at the People's Palace. Assad was sworn in Tuesday for a second seven-year term.
He described Syrian-Iranian relations as "amicable, excellent and extremely deep," adding that the two countries have common stands on regional issues and face common enemies.
Assad said Ahmadinejad's visit came in the context of the continuous developing relations between the two nations whose "farsighted policies" have proven to be correct.
The Syrian leader said they also discussed "ways of restoring dialogue among all Palestinian factions." Syria also backed Iran's right to pursue a nuclear program and the two called for the "departure of all occupation forces" from Iraq - a reference to US troops.
Earlier, Ahmadinejad told Islamic Jihad Secretary General Ramdan-Abdullah Shalakh that Iran's role in the Middle East was "to support the armed struggle of the Palestinian people." The Iranian president stressed the importance of unity between all Palestinian factions.
Ahmadinejad also called on all countries in the region to be vigilant of Israel's attempts to revive itself following its "failure" of the Second Lebanon War.
Ahmadinejad's visit posed a snub to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has called on Syria to cut its relations with Iran as a precondition to restart peace process, deadlocked since 2000.
If it’s 160 degrees in the shade, that ought to solve most of the world’s problems in short order.
According to the Bush doctrine, this should be a declaration of war from Iran & Syria. They are both harboring & dealing with a known terrorist.
More thinly-veiled references to nuclear weapons, imho. Combine this with the reports of peculiar Palestinian civilian behavior, abandoning their fields in high season, and the 9th of 'Av talk begins to sound more ominous.
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Ahmadinejad should know, he has the ability to make it hot.
I think we should stay alert, but that 9th of Av report has pretty much been debunked by now.
However, I have always thought that Iran already has atomic weapons, and we know it and this is the reason we are proceeding so carefully. Their current project is to make their own weapons; the ones they have now they probably bought from the Russians. Or possibly they’re relying on Pakistan to do the job for them.
Has it really? We have a FReeper on the ground in Israel who has stated that he drove through the valley himself and confirmed it.
9th of Av Report? I haven’t heard of it...
He’s begging the question as to why he’s egging on Isreal.
Not would suprise me coming from president nutjob of Iran.
Another missed opportunity to fire a cruise missile into Assad's palace.
We need to make it about 3000 degrees in Iran.
And the temperatures in at least parts of the Middle East are cooler than they ususally are this time of year.
The only thing exceptionally warm is all that hot air that wafts forth every time you open your mouth.
Looks like the ME is going to have a “heatwave”.
thank you..appreciate the help
Yeah, right, Ahmedhijab!
Bomb Iran now! It is the only thing that makes sense to orphan ALL the terrorist groups in the ME. No mullahs, no weapons, no training, no safe haven, no money, no nukes, NO ERRORS!
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