Posted on 09/04/2007 12:55:10 AM PDT by familyop
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused U.S. President George W. Bush of trying to whip up hate against Tehran when he said last week the country had put the region "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust".
The West suspects Iran has a secret programme to build nuclear weapons. Iran says its atomic programme is only for power generation to help boost economic growth and has rejected U.N. demands to halt its most sensitive work.
Iran's IRNA state news agency quoted Khamenei as saying Bush had made comments that were "hateful, arrogant and violent".
"The Iranian nation has resisted and it will resist ... It will never bow to any coercion in the nuclear issue and in other matters," said Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's top authority.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed two rounds of sanctions on Iran since December and the United States has said it will push for a third unless Tehran stops enriching uranium.
Enrichment is the part of Iran's programme that most worries the West because it can be used to make fuel for nuclear power plants or material for warheads.
The United States has said it wants the standoff to be ended through diplomacy but has not ruled out military action if that fails. U.S. officials have said they might label Iran's Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist group.
"The enemies have turned up the level of threats but they should know that an organisation like the Revolutionary Guards that enjoys popular support cannot be destroyed," said newly appointed Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari.
Iran has dismissed U.S. threats, saying U.S. power in the Middle East is waning, and has called for Washington to pull its troops out of Iraq and the region.
"We recommend they ... leave the region as soon as possible and keep their relations with Islam and regional states at a distance," Jafari was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency in his first public remarks since his appointment.
Khamenei said he had appointed Jafari on Saturday to head the Guards, an ideologically motivated force that sees itself as the guardian of the Islamic Republic. The Guards have a separate command structure to the regular military.
Iran will outsmart West on nuclear issue: supreme leader Khamenei
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Wonder what a 30 day bombardment by B52’s would do to qualm any of this horse hockey.
GWB’s secret trip to Iraq yesterday is giving the “cold” feet!!!
And the assholes in Tehran have been all sweetness and light - full of love for America and spreading goodwill throughout the world?
The bastards would be laughable, if they weren't so damned dangerous...
We're going to end up killing MILLIONS of Persians, simply to kill the lunatics among them.....
Sort of the same deal as with Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan...
I think they see other than grafitti on the walls. Belligerance/Arrogance. Usually what happens before the lies about the unintended “inferences”, and the faux apologies to thwart the inevitable. Next will be the “agreement” to stand down by the Iranians as a ploy while they continue to arm their allied terrorists in the region.
I hope history has made us smarter than to fall for that often and typical ME ploy again. I don’t trust the “Foggies” to not play that game though. It will be up to Bush ultimately.
Sorry persians... we hated your government long before President Bush even thought of running for governor... much less President!
LLS
What is that cute little phrase Khamenei and the hardliners have been forcing Iranians to chant every friday and at every political gathering for the last 25 odd years?....
Oh yeah! “Death to America!”...What could be more loving and peaceful than that?
And all this means is:
1. Dubya won't be a Jedi Knight any time soon.
2. Iranians have now discovered why it is not wise to throw BS at a swiftly rotating ventilation device.
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