Posted on 04/27/2002 6:37:29 PM PDT by knighthawk
TEHRAN, April 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Iran on Saturday called on the United Nations to expel Israel from the world body because of its violation of the U.N. resolutions, cruel acts and massive massacres of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi was quoted as saying that the expulsion of the Israeli regime from the United Nations should be put on the U.N. agenda.
A human catastrophe is taking place in Palestine, Asefi said, calling for all Muslim countries and international organizations to put pressure on the Israeli regime to bring its violent and cruel actions to an end.
The spokesman, meanwhile, denied "unsubstantiated rumors" that Iran has provided the Palestinians with arms.Israel accused Iran of sending a ship in early January to transport arms for the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which was seized sailing in the Red Sea by Israeli navy.
There is no military measure in Iran's policy, Asefi stressed, adding that Iran would try through the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the United Nations and other international bodies to secure the restoration of the Palestinians' rights.
Asefi also lashed out at the United States "for backing Israel while claiming to be defender of the human rights and to lead the anti-terror campaign."
It would be better for the United States to stop providing arms to the Israeli regime, he added.
Since Israel declared Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat its enemy and sent troops and tanks into the West Bank city of Ramallah to smash into Arafat's headquarters, the situation has been getting worse in the occupied areas.
In defiance of world-wide condemnation of the aggressive action, the Israeli army has recently intensified its widespread military offensive against Palestinian towns, refugee camps and villages, leaving many people dead and wounded.
Iran, which does not recognize Israel, supports Palestinian resistance groups in their movement against Israeli occupation.
Strangely:
Iranian President Khatami: All nations work to isolate those practicing violence
And what does Iran to isolate violence:
Iran Calls For Islam's Total Support for Intifada
In Iran: Support expressed for Palestinian suicide bombings
Ayatollah Khamenei: Intifada, the only way to save Palestinians (Standard IRNA barf alert)
It would be better for the United States to stop providing arms to the Israeli regime
Iran: The worlds Leading Country in Support of Terror
By the way, when Iran does not recognize Israel, how can they ask the UN to throw them out?
Iran v. Great Satan (their title)
Here some efforts made by Ayatollah Khomeini to counter violence:
The Ayatollah Khomeini responding to apologists for Islam
(Taheri, Amir, Holy Terror, London 1987, pp. 226-7):
Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of other [countries] so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world...Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are witless. Islam says: Kill all the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured [by the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them [the non-Muslims], put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]. Does this mean sitting back until [non-Muslims] overcome us? Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender to the enemy? Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other [Koranic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all that mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.
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I couldn't possibly agree with you more.
Well, it is obvious that the UN is against us. So, why don't we treat them as the enemy that they are?
Where was the West, where was this country all this time?! Did we really have to loose 3,000 of our fellow citizens?
These words were spoken in 1987 in Iran, but last week someone carried a sign at the nation's Mall that read, "Islam came to dominate the world."
What are we waiting for? Until these people are in our living rooms?
Israel should kick the UN types out. And we should kick the UN out of that building. We need a new World Trade Center the way I see it.
Well, if they really think Israel is conducting massacres of Palestinians, why don't they provide the Palestinians with weapons?
But it's pretty well established that the Karin-A weapons came from Iran.
Looks that way: "Islam is Peace" Says President
Sheesh what a bunch of morons the UN are.
Yes. I have been warning people for years about the dangers of these people. They spread islam by the sword, but the people don't either care or believe the apologists. Although people have waken up, still many don't think it a dangerous some make them believe, until the next plane/bomb/gunman strikes at them or their family.
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