Ahmadinejad: Israel will be destroyed

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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Ahmadinejad said last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah showed for the first time that the "hegemony of the occupier regime (Israel) had collapsed, and the Lebanese nation pushed the button to begin counting the days until the destruction of the Zionist regime," IRNA quoted him as saying.

"God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying during a speech to foreign guests mostly from African, Arab and neighboring countries who attended ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has lost public support after Israel failed to achieve its goals during last summer's 34-day war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon - freeing two captured soldiers and crushing the militant group.

The war was sparked after two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped by Iranian- and Syrian-backed Hezbollah militants in a cross-border raid. The fighting ended with a U.N.-brokered cease-fire that called for deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanese troops in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel.

Ahmadinejad has made anti-Israel comments in the past.

In October 2005, he caused outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel's "Zionist regime should be wiped off the map."

His supporters have argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated and should have been better translated as "vanish from the pages of time" - implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.
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Glowing Ahemi sticks his foot in his mouth again :o. Or is it another "mistranslation" or "rhetoric"

UN chief blasts Iran’s Ahmadinejad over anti-Israel remarks

London, Jun. 08 – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blasted on Thursday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his remarks earlier this week calling for the destruction of Israel.

“The Secretary-General was shocked and dismayed at the remarks attacking Israel attributed to H.E. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on 3 June, in which he says repeatedly that the world could witness the ‘destruction of the Zionist regime’ soon”, Secretary General Ban’s spokesperson said in a statement.

“The Secretary-General points out that the State of Israel is a full and long-standing member of the United Nations with the same rights and obligations as every other member. He reminds that under the United Nations Charter, all members have undertaken to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State.

“The Secretary-General has repeatedly made his views clear on this issue”, the statement added.
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Iran summons Spain envoy in Israel remarks row

TEHRAN, June 7, 2007 (AFP) - Iran summoned the Spanish ambassador to protest the calling in of its envoy to Madrid over the latest anti-Israeli outburst by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Mehr news agency reported on Thursday.

Ahmadinejad provoked a new storm of controversy earlier this week by saying a "countdown" had begun that would end with Lebanese and Palestinian militants destroying Israel.

"Iran is surprised by Spain's reaction to the comments of Dr Ahmadinejad on the Zionist regime and sees it as a hasty action," top foreign ministry official Ebrahim Rahimpour told ambassador Antonio Perez-Hernandez Torra late Wednesday.

Rahimpour, the ministry's pointman for Western Europe, also accused Spain of "double standards" in its policy on the Middle East, saying it condoned Israeli killings of Palestinians while not supporting the Palestinian government.

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Monday described Ahmadinejad's comments as "unacceptable.

Spain has "good relations" with Iran but "the response (to these statements) must be firm, categorical and unambiguous on the part of a country like Spain, the European Union and the international community," he said.

The Iranian president sparked outrage abroad shortly after coming to power in 2005 for saying that Israel should be "wiped from the map" and then repeatedly predicting that the Jewish state would disappear.

Last week Spain hosted talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on the Islamic country's nuclear programme.
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Ahmadinejad attack on Israel 'unacceptable': French FM

PARIS, June 4, 2007 (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner Monday condemned the latest anti-Israeli outburst by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "unacceptable" and incompatible with Tehran's ambition to be a respected regional player.

"I have been informed of comments, quoted by news agencies, in which the Iranian president speaks of the 'annihilation of the Israeli regime'," Kouchner said in a statement.

"If these comments were indeed made, they are unacceptable. I condemn them in the strongest terms."

"Such statements are incompatible with the dialogue between cultures and civilisations to which we are attached and to Iran's aspiration to play a preeminent role in the region."

"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Israeli-Lebanese relations cannot be used as a pretext for questioning Israel's fundamental right to exist."

Ahmadinejad on Sunday launched a new verbal attack on Israel, saying last summer's war between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started a "countdown" that will end with Lebanese and Palestinian militants destroying the Jewish state.

The Iranian president sparked outrage abroad shortly after coming to power in 2005 for saying that Israel should be "wiped from the map" and then repeatedly predicting that the state would disappear.
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So many have tried and failed - and so many will try and fail. For me - that Israel as a nation still stands (all over the world) after all the efforts to destroy them is witness to all that is written about Israel in the Bible. No-one will ever destroy Israel as a nation - of this I'm absolutely 100% sure. Those who try will be severly punished. Watch this space.
 
Trafeye said:
So many have tried and failed - and so many will try and fail. For me - that Israel as a nation still stands (all over the world) after all the efforts to destroy them is witness to all that is written about Israel in the Bible. No-one will ever destroy Israel as a nation - of this I'm absolutely 100% sure. Those who try will be severly punished. Watch this space.
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It is almost "supernatural" how a nation of a couple millions has survived hostile neighbors all around it since it's birth numbering around a hundred million citizens. One of the driving factors behind current attempts to destroy Israel today is the shame felt by many about this fact. They feel the need to restore their "pride"


vespax said:
Isreal bombing Iran is a sure-fire way to start WW3 (or is it 4?).
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It would be 4. One could say glowing Ahemi devoloping nukes is a sure way to start WW4
 
Trafeye said:
So many have tried and failed - and so many will try and fail. For me - that Israel as a nation still stands (all over the world) after all the efforts to destroy them is witness to all that is written about Israel in the Bible. No-one will ever destroy Israel as a nation - of this I'm absolutely 100% sure. Those who try will be severly punished. Watch this space.
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Mmmm Iran, Saudi err all the others can take em down! Just the bloody Saudi want money!
 
Israel has its own nukes, and I can bet you your bottom dollar, one of them is aimed at Mecca.
 
JK8 said:
And what will that solve?
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If any country invades Israel, and Israel does not think it can win, you can bet they re going to take down the middle east with them. Of course the people wanting to destroy Israel could be have like human beings and stop threatening to mass genocide the area.

Then we wouldn't have problems would we?
 
w1z4rd said:
If any country invades Israel, and Israel does not think it can win, you can bet they re going to take down the middle east with them. Of course the people wanting to destroy Israel could be have like human beings and stop threatening to mass genocide the area.

Then we wouldn't have problems would we?
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But Israel is the one that stole the land and treating the Palestinians like crap, they attacking the muslim world. We all hate them (As Israel) so you think one country can play bully for so long? there will be a war and Israel will lose, one wrong move from Israel can really spark the end of everything as we know it.
 
w1z4rd said:
Rubbish, any country that attacks israel is almost assured of mutual destruction.
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Agree. Israel has the technology and weapons to destroy any nation threatening its existence. And if it is attacked by a non-governmental entity it can strike at those supporting it. Anyone thinking that Israel is now weak because of perceived Hizb'allah successes in the last "war" forgets that Isreal had to restrain itself (with the help of the US). An unrestrained Israel will be a completely different prospect.
 
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