Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

Iran Leader: Israel Will Be Annihilated
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI, Associated Press Writer
2 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran - The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was "heading toward annihilation," just days after Tehran raised fears about its nuclear activities by saying it successfully enriched uranium for the first time.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "permanent threat" to the Middle East that will "soon" be liberated. He also appeared to again question whether the Holocaust really happened.

"Like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation," Ahmadinejad said at the opening of a conference in support of the Palestinians. "The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm."

Ahmadinejad provoked a world outcry in October when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map."

On Friday, he repeated his previous line on the Holocaust, saying: "If such a disaster is true, why should the people of this region pay the price? Why does the Palestinian nation have to be suppressed and have its land occupied?"

The land of Palestine, he said, referring to the British mandated territory that includes all of Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, "will be freed soon."

He did not say how this would be achieved, but insisted to the audience of at least 900 people: "Believe that Palestine will be freed soon."

"The existence of this (Israeli) regime is a permanent threat" to the Middle East, he added. "Its existence has harmed the dignity of Islamic nations."

The three-day conference on Palestine is being attended by officials of Hamas, the ruling party in the Palestinian territories.

Iran has previously said it will give money to the Palestinian Authority to make up for the withdrawal of donations by Western nations who object to Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel and renounce violence. But no figure has been published.

On Tuesday, Ahmadinejad announced that Iran had successfully enriched uranium using a battery of 164 centrifuges, a significant step toward the large-scale production of enriched uranium required for either fueling nuclear reactors or making nuclear weapons.

The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is confined to generating electricity.

The U.N. Security Council has given Iran until April 28 to cease enrichment. But Iran has rejected the demand.

The chief of Israeli military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, was quoted Wednesday as saying Iran could develop a nuclear bomb "within three years, by the end of the decade."

Jackie Pies

This is just more lies by the jews, just like the holocaust.**



**Oh lord, that's a bit crazy, I don't really believe that, but I miss Shango. (Hi Bulldog)

K Jay

I hit this 4 months back, you all laughed and called it insightful riscism( at least tha breaker did) It's blantently obvious this guy wants Christianty/Judism Vs Islam. If you guys bite you're as bad/gullible as the 9/11 recruits. Ignore it, laugh, realise this guy is not powerful enough to dictate our lives, nor even the lives of many (boderline) poverty-stricken Iranians.

I had a sig, once.

barfly467

Still though, it looks like at the end of the month, we may be in another war

The Dude

Doubtful. I don't think even George Dubya would be dumb enough to spread troops out to yet another country. It's hard enough spreading em to Afghanistan and Iraq, let alone Iran.

When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the country not enter the city. For this is the time of punishment in fullfillment of all that has been written. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. They will fall by the sword and be taken as prisoners to all nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
...At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
Luke 21:20-28

barfly467

I wouldn't put it past him

Miakal

You can't blame Iran for making threats against Israel. So far Israel still has 1 billion more threats for the lead.

He does want a war. He wants to put people in terror and so far we've let him do that pretty well.

Dakstang

MMA Moderator

If President Bush were to take preventative action against Iran it would be the same thing where everyone tries to say that they had no weapons of mass destruction.

If he waits until Iran nukes someone (and they will) he will get dogged for not taking preventative action.

Iran is definitely someone that we are headed into a military conflict with, if not sooner, then later.

Stop talkin' bout stayin' the course
You keep on beatin' that old dead horse
You know they lied about why we went to War
I can't take it no more

Mr. Kennedy

The difference is that there was never evidence or proof that Iraq had WMDs, only Bush and his administration were saying that.

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Dakstang

MMA Moderator

I fully support preventative action. I am not saying that we go around picking fights with everyone but if countries like Iran keep it up, they will find themselves in our cross hairs soon enough and we will come down on them hard.

Stop talkin' bout stayin' the course
You keep on beatin' that old dead horse
You know they lied about why we went to War
I can't take it no more