Iran's new president declares worldwide 'Islamic revolution'

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 2:02 pm

We aint seen nuthin yet!!! .

Iran's new president declares worldwide 'Islamic revolution'

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Iran's president-elect has proclaimed an Islamic revolution of global proportions.

Mahmood Ahmadinejad said his election coincided with what he termed a new Islamic revolution

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world," Ahmadinejad said. "In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years."

Ahmadinejad, who did not elaborate, was speaking to the families of those killed in a 1981 attack at the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, Middle East Newsline reported.

The Teheran mayor has served as a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, responsible for the nation's missile and nuclear weapons programs, and has been identified as a suspect in the killing of Kurdish dissidents in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The 49-year-old Ahmadinejad, who participated in the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Teheran, in 1979, was regarded as the most anti-Western of the presidential candidates. On June 24, he defeated Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who headed the Expediency Council, the regime's watchdog over what had been a reformist-dominated parliament.

"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and the Islamic revolution of 1384 will, if God wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," Ahmadinejad was quoted by the official Iranian news agency as saying. "The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end."

The speech marked the first time since the late 1980s that an Iranian president vowed to export Islamic insurgency throughout the world.

Allies of Ahmadinejad said the president-elect, who takes office in August, would seek to revive the principles of the Islamic revolution in 1978. They said Ahmadinejad would also seek to impose Islamic behavior in public, including strict enforcement of a dress code.

"Islamic and revolutionary culture have been neglected in the past years," Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad Taqi Rahbar said.

Iran has been cited as the leading financier of groups that appear on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations. Iran's leading clients have been the Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both sponsored by Teheran, as well as Hamas and the Syrian-aligned Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.

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Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:48 pm

We led them to the water, anyway.

Post by **spot** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:12 am

I think we could try to applaud anything we see coming out of Iran which coincides with our Western democratic values, even as we depreciate what we would rather not hear.

"The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached its end", for example, could have come from any State of the Nation address.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:17 pm

Far Rider wrote: Well does anyone remember thet picture of the eagle sharpening his claws that floated around just after 9/11???... that picture comes to mind right now.

Surely you don't mean we should attack them for using the tools of democracy we gave them to elect someone we don't approve of.

Post by **spot** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:20 pm

Accountable wrote: Surely you don't mean we should attack them for using the tools of democracy we gave them to elect someone we don't approve of.

In what sense do you mean "we gave them"?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:34 pm

:yh_doh

I don't know why I thought the story was from afganistan. Sorry.

I'm going to bed now. :yh_tired :yh_sleep

Lionrampant · Post by **Lionrampant** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:14 am

Surely you don't mean we should attack them for using the tools of democracy we gave them to elect someone we don't approve of.

Your having a luagh mate. who's tools of democracy is it that a religous leader to say Yay or Nay as to wether someone can even stand for election!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:20 am

Lionrampant wrote: Your having a luagh mate. who's tools of democracy is it that a religous leader to say Yay or Nay as to wether someone can even stand for election!!!!!!!!!!Jesus, does nobody read before they write? Accountable already apologised for confusing Iran with Afghanistan, and getting his wires crossed, in the post before yours.

Lionrampant · Post by **Lionrampant** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:34 am

Jesus, does nobody read before they write? Accountable already apologised for confusing Iran with Afghanistan, and getting his wires crossed, in the post before yours.

I don't see why that makes a problem. Nor do I see what it has to do with Jesus.