by Eddie_lomax » Sun 07 May 2006, 16:33:15
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When properly translated the Iranian president actually calls for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere does he demand the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for Palestine. The word map does not even feature. And the president makes plain that the Holocaust happened, but, he argues western powers have exploited the memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the mainstream ran with is complete deception.
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While I have no idea what he said in his mother tongue, you'd have thought that if his comments were taken completely out of context that they'd have made an effort to correct this ? This makes me sceptical that its a big conspiracy, unless of course everyone is in it

This guy certainly is no idiot, and if he thought that his comments were going to be used against him then he'd make an effort to spanner up any plans there.
Therefore I do believe he'd be quite happy watching Isreal disapear, dunno if he's fruity enough though to wipe his own country off the map achieving it ?
As a personal point though - got to agree with him on the above comments about the holocaust though, especially from a middle eastern viewpoint, its no longer an historical event now, but an money making industry too.
Maybe I'm being brainwashed by the media again here, but while I have no love for the Isreali regime (Stern gang etc), I'm not a big fan of Persian autocracy either, kind of an opposite to western civilisation since Byzantine times.
For me the big question here is - is he (and will his successors) be happy to keep their regime within their own borders ?
On that count so far they've been about as violent as Luxembourg, once the oil runs out anything can happen though, thats why I'd prefer they (and as many other countries as possible) didn't have nuclear weapons. I have images of what happened when the Albanian economy crumbled (the only economy to crash due to a pyramid scam

), the doors on military arsenals were just left wide open and the soldiers went home...