How soon they forget
Speaking at the United Nations on Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that states that threaten to use atomic weapons should be punished (via Daniel Foster). Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called for states that threaten to use atomic weapons to be punished, a clear reference to a new U.S. nuclear strategy released last month.I wonder if he would consider the speech in the photo at the top of this post a threat to use atomic weapons that ought to be punished.
Speaking at a meeting of the 189 signatories of the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he urged "considering any threat to use nuclear weapons or attack against peaceful nuclear facilities as a breach of international peace and security." The delegations of the United States, Britain and France all walked out of the U.N. General Assembly chamber during the Iranian president's speech.
Or if that wasn't explicit enough, how about this (which admittedly did not refer explicitly to atomic weapons, but is even more explicit about wiping Israel out)?
"The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," he said, according to the press agency. "The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land."Maybe Iran should be punished for those statements. Has anyone asked Ahmadinejad?
Referring to comments by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic revolution, Admadinejad said, "As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
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The White House said Wednesday that Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" underlined U.S. concerns about Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Agence France-Presse reported from Washington.
"It reconfirms what we've been saying about the regime in Iran," said the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan. "It underscores the concerns we have about Iran's nuclear intentions."
Washington has accused Tehran of using a civilian nuclear program as cover for efforts to develop atomic weapons. Iran has denied the allegation.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:19 PM
3 Comments:
And the Israeli government refuses to shoot his plane down. Is that how it would have behaved in the 1930s - sat on its hands as Hitler threatened the Jews with destruction?
I wonder if any one has really learned anything from the Holocaust. A lunatic anti-Semite is invited to attend a conference on nuclear non-proliferation and all is "normal" with the world. That is exactly what is wrong with our age.
I will refrain from writing what I would very much like to do to all of them including Ahmadinejad but I will refrain.
To liken the inaction of the entire world in the years leading up to, during and after the Shoah to Israel not shooting down an Iranian aircraft carrying Ahmadinejad anywhere other then their own airspace is insane.
Like it or not Ahmadinejad got his power in part from previous US governments. The matter of Ahmadinejad SHOULD have long been over.
This mahound is the only one to have threatened Israel with nukes, but HE accuses OTHERS!
Kafka's worst nightmare!
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