He certainly never called for the extermination of any group of people in the Middle East.
The Israeli's don't count?
Claiming Israel is an illegitimate state which should cease to exist is not the same as calling for the death of it population.
Then what does he mean he says he intends to rid the Middle East of Israel, to wipe her off the map?
What? He's going to drop leaflets over Israel warning Israeli's and the 4+ millions Arabs living there to flee 'cuz he's gonna nuke Israel is 72 hours?
Are you serious?
If you ever choose to educate yourself on this issue you will find his positions on the Israeli-Palestinian issue are easily available and involve all the people in the region surviving and living in peace with one another.
Living in peace together?
Are you serious?
In the link I provided he above he not only threatens Israel but any other Middle Eastern nation that he believes is helping Israel.
He said: "Anybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury, [while] any [Islamic leader] who recognises the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world." He was addressing a conference titled The World Without Zionism.
Yeah, that certainly reflects his desire to live in peace with "Anybody who recognises Israel"... :doh
And you're right, his declarations to rid the world of Israel are easily available and easy to find. Here's another:
Yeah, that's called living in peace, eh?
Heh, you're a bit like Joe McCarthy!
Hmm, you're accurately called out for your unceasing support for totalitarian and terror-sponsoring dictators and you suggest I'm like McCarthy? Okay, I'll take that. As it turns out, McCarthy was right, the Soviets had infiltrated our governmental institutions. See the Verona Papers.
Those elections were by no means perfect, nor have I ever claimed otherwise.
Huh? You appealed to Iranian elections as some reflection of legitimacy. Elections where the slate of candidates is explicitly controlled by the mullahs ain't nothing close to legitimate election process.
That you posted such an appeal necessarily means that you believed those elections were legitimate.
They did however represent a broad enough portion of the Iranian population to bring over half of them to the polls. To claim a person who competes in competitive election and shares power with both a legislative and "religious" branch of government is a despot, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the word.
I see, so holding such illegitimate elections completely dissolves any responsibility he has for ordering brutal crackdowns on labor unions, on college students, who shut down critical papers, imprison internet bloggers, etc. when they dare to protest?
Because popularly elected despots are not really despots at all, right? :roll:
The US state department used to charecterized Iraq as a democracy?
Careerists, yes. Just as they did with Iran when Deputy Secretary of State under Powell, Richard Armitage, labeled Iran a "democracy."
I knew US bureaucracy's aren't that highly regarded, but I didn't know the situation was the dire!
It is.
Amir Taheri tells us why Iran in not a democracy:
So, why are 80 members of the 290-member Islamic Consultative Assembly — the Iranian parliament — behaving like an opposition and holding a sit-in amid threats of mass resignation?
The reason is that the next general election, to be held on Feb. 20, could end the parliamentary career of many of them, not because of rejection by voters but because they won’t even be allowed to stand.
A couple of months ago Richard Armitage, the No. 2 at the U.S. State Department, described the Islamic Republic of Iran as “a sort of democracy.”
Well, he was sort of right if by democracy we mean the holding of regular elections without bothering about their quality and purpose.
In a normal democracy anyone who does not have a criminal record and meets basic qualifications, such as citizenship, is allowed to stand for elected office. But this is not the “sort of democracy” that Iran has had since the mullahs seized power in 1979.
Your unquestioning support of the terrorists in Tehran is, well, surprising, and alarming. You're like these former Soviet useless idiots that buy the propaganda hook, line, and sinker, and then go about prostelyzing it. Amazing.
More from Taheri about the so-called "democracy" in Iran:
In Iran all candidates must be pre-approved by a body known as The Council of the Guardians of the Constitution, a 12-man, mullah-dominated organ appointed by the “Supreme Guide” and answerable to him...
Yeah, that's democracy... :roll: