Iran: 'Israel should still be annihilated'
MP Philip Hammond, the British Foreign Secretary who
raced to Tehran to reopen his country's embassy over the weekend and complimented Iran on its 'more nuanced' approach to Israel, got his answer today from a
key foreign policy adviser to Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani:
Hussein Sheikholeslam, a foreign affairs adviser to parliament speaker Ali Larijani, told Iranian media
that contrary to remarks by British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond,
“Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at
all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate slogan.”
Hammond was in Iran on Monday for the
reopening of the UK embassy in Tehran, and said that Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani had indicated a “more nuanced approach” to Israel’s
existence. Hammond said Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s
“revolutionary sloganizing” should be distinguished from “what Iran
actually does in the conduct of its foreign policy.”
...
Sheikholeslam told a Hamas news outlet earlier
this month that Iran has resisted pressure exerted by the P5+1 world
powers during the nuclear negotiations to halt its political involvement
in Gaza, Syria and Yemen.
“These powers admitted that the reason for
their pressure on us is our position on Israel,” he said. “We told them
that we reject the existence of any Israeli on this earth.”
Even Jeffrey Goldberg
noticed the statement, but I doubt that the former IDF officer has figured out yet why that might be personally connected to him.
Labels: British embassy, death to the Jews, FARS News, Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, Tehran
Iran's FARS news fabricated interview with Morsy?
An
interview with newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsy that claimed that Egypt would draw closer to Iran and reevaluate the Camp David treaty may have been
fabricated by Iran's FARS news.
[A] spokesman for Morsy told Egypt's official MENA news agency Monday that "Morsy did not give any interview to Fars and everything this agency has published is baseless."
The remarks Fars quoted in the interview contrasted sharply with promises Morsy made during his presidential campaign and in other interviews, in which he pledged to honor Egypt's international treaties, including its peace treaty with Israel.
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Notably, while Fars reported that the Egyptian president-elect said he planned to review the Camp David agreement, in a June 16 interview with Kuwaiti newspaper al-Kuwaitiah, later published in Persian on Iran's ASRIran news website, Morsy promised to "adhere to the agreement with Israel".
In the same al-Kuwaitiah interview, Morsy denied as "pure imagination and slander" that the Muslim Brotherhood has links with Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah.
"We respect the right of the Palestinian people in their resistance against the Israeli occupier, and we do not see anything wrong with that," Morsy told al-Kuwaitiah. "However, we will never stand with any forces that threaten the Persian Gulf countries."
Read the whole thing.
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here.
Labels: Egyptian elections, Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, FARS News, Iran, Mohammed Morsy, Muslim Brotherhood
Iranian blood libel claims US and Israel behind suicide bombing
The Iranian news agency FARS is claiming that the United States and Israel were behind a suicide bombing that took place in
Istanbul last Sunday. The bombing has been blamed on the Kurdish PKK (which
denies it) and on al-Qaeda. But the
Iranians think they know better.
A source privy to the investigations into Istanbul's Sunday blast revealed that the US embassy in Turkey had convincing information about the terrorist attack in the Taksim Square days before the incident, and stressed that the terrorist measure was a response to Ankara's latest security assessment which named the Zionist regime as the No 1 threat to Turkey's national security.
The source quoted Uzjan, the manager of the Ramli Khan restaurant near the scene of the blast, as saying that the restaurant was scheduled to host a Halloween party and 30 foreign nationals were to attend the party, among them 9 Americans.
"A day before the party, a number of our guests announced that they couldn't attend the party since the US embassy in Turkey has warned the 9 American nationals about an impending bomb attack," the source quoted Uzjan as saying after the blast.
Analysts see the incident as the scene of another confrontation between Washington and Turkey after Ankara rejected a US demand for erecting a missile shield in Turkey's border regions with Iran.
This reminds me of the Muslims who claim that Israel was behind 9/11 and 'back it up' with unsubstantiated claims that Jews didn't come to work that day.
And Israel's supposed role in all this? Well, there really isn't one. They just claim that Israel's media is trying to revive tensions between Turks and Kurds by blaming the Kurds for the bombing. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.
But something tells me that much of the UN (especially the 'human rights council') will believe it.
What could go wrong?
Labels: blaming US and Israel, FARS News, Istanbul, PKK, suicide bombing
