Posted on 02/23/2002 5:17:06 PM PST by knighthawk
Tehran - Iran's influential former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday issued a personal attack on US President George W Bush, saying he had "a sparrow's brain in a dinosaur's head".
"It is true that one has the impression that he (Bush) has a sparrow's brain in a dinosaur's head," he told thousands of people gathered at Tehran University for prayers marking the Islamic feast of Eid Al-Adha. His speech was broadcast on state radio.
"That's why we must be vigilant about the accusations of this supercilious man," said Rafsanjani, who now heads the Expediency Council, the Islamic regime's top arbitration body.
He was criticising recent comments by Bush that Iran, along with Iraq and North Korea, form an "axis of evil" and could be future targets in Washington's "war on terrorism" because they are allegedly seeking weapons of mass destruction.
US leaders "say very clearly that they want to fight all other cultures and values, particularly Islamic, and it is for this reason that they talk of a crusade" against Islam, Rafsanjani charged.
"It is clear that to us that the Americans are bitter towards us because of the fact that they lost their interests in Iran after the Islamic Revolution" of 1979, he said.
'New Berlin wall
On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Rafsanjani condemned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to set up buffer zones between Israel and the West Bank to stop Palestinian attacks as a "new Berlin wall".
"They now have the idea of a new Berlin wall ... which we do not accept, as Palestine is a complete and inseparable entity," he said, adding that "the internal situation (in Israel) is very dangerous because of the explosion of violence over the last few days".
On Afghanistan, Rafsanjani again rejected the US accusation that Tehran was trying to destabilise the country.
"Everybody knows that Iran's role in Afghanistan has been very substantial, but what the Americans must know is that the Taliban and the al-Qaeda collapsed due to the land attacks by the opposition," the former Iranian president said.
Rafsanjani also issued a veiled warning to the new Afghan leaders, calling on them to keep their distance from the United States.
"We hope the new (Afghan) leaders will not become instruments in the service of the United States, as they will then be regarded in the same way as the US oppressors," he said.
Iran has not had diplomatic relations with the United States for 22 years and has issued strong warnings to Washington following Bush's "axis of evil" threats.
A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.
Ayatollah Khomeini (Quotes above are from Khomeini's book, Tahrirolvasyleh, vol. 4, Darol Elm, Gom, Iran, 1990, Source: Homa)
And they say Bush is a sparrow brain?
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