Iran to Israel: Don't Attack Lebanon

[Logan13]

Iran to Israel: Don't Attack Lebanon
05/24/07
AP
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line president warned Israel on Thursday that other nations in the region would "uproot" the Jewish state if it attacked Lebanon in the summer.
"If you think that by bombing and assassinating Palestinian leaders you are preparing ground for new attacks on Lebanon in the summer, I am telling you that you are seriously wrong," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally in the city of Isfahan.

"If this year you repeat the same mistake of the last year, the ocean of nations of the region will get angry and will uproot the Zionist regime."

[Lexed]

now that Iran is getting nukes they acting like they the super power. This is really bad news for Israel

[RamyGras]

now that Iran is getting nukes they acting like they the super power. This is really bad news for Israel

I didn't even realize that Israel was planning any offensives against Lebanon this summer. If Iran continues to make comments like this, they're shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder what percentage of their population agree with their president.

[Lexed]

100% sure in the future 1-2 years we will be in Iran

[Act of God]

I didn't even realize that Israel was planning any offensives against Lebanon this summer. If Iran continues to make comments like this, they're shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder what percentage of their population agree with their president.

From what I read they have a very young population that is NOT on board with their president. They are western-minded people who do not hate freedom or America.

This is all second hand, though, so who really knows. Iranians/Persians generally don't associate themselves with Arabs, though. Hence, the "Persian" denomination.

[Logan13]

I didn't even realize that Israel was planning any offensives against Lebanon this summer. If Iran continues to make comments like this, they're shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder what percentage of their population agree with their president.

In all seriousness, Iran has the opportunity to become a great and influential nation. The only thing holding them back is Ahmenijad and the radicals that control the country. I would love to walk through streets of a nation which has thousands of years of history to share.

[eliteforce]

100% sure that in within 3 years US will be out of Iraq and not in Iran, the US does not have the military capability to invade Iran, they can't invade from Iraq, if not from Iraq then from where? Afghanistan? For these kinds of wars the US needs cooperation of the target countries neighbors-they will not have any cooperation for pre-emptive warfare after that Iraq disaster and it's not possible to invade on their own.

100% sure in the future 1-2 years we will be in Iran

[Lexed]

if Iran uses nuclear threats then you can beat your ass we will be there

[eliteforce]

They have never made a 'nuclear threat' - they deny that they even have a nuclear weapons program, which of cource is bullsit but at least it's an attempt to reasure the world that it is not interested in nuking anyone, in fact the US is the one making nuclear threats by developing 'mini-nukes' that they think would have some kind of military application because it's not that big -which I think is pure insanity because if you use a mini-nuke and they retaliate with a tactical nuclear weapon and then you use a big nukeand they use a big nuke you still end up with MAD--the point is-never use a nuclear weapon first under any circumstance.

As far as their purported threat to 'wipe Israel off the map'-it's debatable what was really said because the translation from farsi have been variable--they have repeatedly clarefied that they meant abolish the zionist regime, that israel is an oppresive political entity like the SOviet Union or Aphartied era S.Africa--not helpful comments but the US and Israel talk about getting the Iranian regime overthrown all the time--if you make threats against a regime then they will return the favor and make threats against yours--like maybe the American regime should be violently overthrown and the Presidential democracy should be replaced with a paliamentary democracy with Cuban and Venezualan permanent bases to oversee this transition from a tyranical regime to a puppet state called a democracy, like on that movie 'red dawn'.

[Will Power]

They have never made a 'nuclear threat' - they deny that they even have a nuclear weapons program,

As far as their purported threat to 'wipe Israel off the map'-it's debatable what was really said because the translation from farsi have been variable--they have repeatedly clarefied that they meant abolish the zionist regime.

And after an intensive search I have not found one article anywhere where Israel threatened to attack Lebanon this summer or at any other time, so what was the purpose of the Iranian presidents threatening speech? Why do they continue to make these repetitive threats to destroy Israel?

And yes that was a rhetorical question since we all know exactly what the Iranian plan is.......But then denial is a very powerful political tool

[mcpeepants]

In all seriousness, Iran has the opportunity to become a great and influential nation. The only thing holding them back is Ahmenijad and the radicals that control the country. I would love to walk through streets of a nation which has thousands of years of history to share.

When Iran had the previous moderate president, the bush administration treated Iran the same as it does now with the current president.