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Mixed views in Iran on nuclear strategy
Sun Feb 5, 2006 6:28 AM ET163

 By Paul Hughes

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian media on Sunday reflected mixed views on the way officials were handling the country's nuclear standoff with the West, with some reformist politicians and newspapers urging the government to tone down its stance.

Hardline newspapers, on the other hand, lauded Iran's defiant response to the decision by the board of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog on Saturday to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council.

"It has become quite obvious that continued commitment to rules that trample upon the rights of nations would only result in capitulation to the bullying demands of foreign powers," said the conservative Tehran Times.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday Iran had already responded to being reported to the Security Council by curbing U.N. inspectors' access to its nuclear sites and restarting uranium enrichment.

Tehran says it wants nuclear technology to generate electricity, not make bombs as some Western countries allege.

The nuclear program enjoys broad support across Iran's political spectrum. But some politicians expressed concern about how the issue was being handled by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government.

"Reporting Iran's nuclear case to the U.N. Security Council is not good news and could have negative consequences for the country," said reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who was a vice-president under former President Mohammad Khatami.

"If the current negotiators cannot carry out their job ... some changes should be made so that the negotiators implement more serious diplomacy for constructive negotiations," he told the semi-official ISNA students news agency.

"DANGEROUS PHASE"

Lawmaker Mohammad Khoshchehreh said officials should take into account the implications of their nuclear strategy.

"We need strategic management at this stage. We should not make decisions based on emotions and slogans," he was quoted as saying by the Iran News daily.

Political analyst and university lecturer Ali Khorram, quoted by the same newspaper, said official handling of the issue had led the country into a "very dangerous phase".

"I recommend the government rethink this optimistic, confident and almost carefree attitude toward being referred to the Security Council," he said.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday international pressure could do nothing to deflect the world's fourth biggest oil producer from nuclear power.

"Our enemies cannot do a damn thing. We do not need you at all. But you are in need of the Iranian nation," he said.

Ultra-conservative daily Kayhan said that, since Tehran's right to develop peaceful nuclear technology was being ignored, it was time for it to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

But Iran News urged the government to proceed with more caution.

"The government should in no way welcome a confrontation with the West," it said in an editorial. "The nuclear file is no longer a technical or legal matter but a political problem. The many capabilities of those countries that are standing against Iran should be taken into consideration.

Mixed views in Iran on nuclear strategy

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Solana says EU seeks friendship, mutual respect with Muslim world
Brussels, Feb 5, IRNA

EU-Cartoons-Solana European Union High Representative for Common Foreign Policy Javier Solana has condemned 'in the strongest possible terms the violence and threats levelled at European citizens and interests in Syria and Lebanon and other countries in the region'.

In a statement Sunday afternoon, Solana said 'those responsible at local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam'.

"It is now time for everyone to act to calm the situation and to help consolidate the relationship friendship and mutual respect sought by all the governments of the European Union," he added.

Solana says EU seeks friendship, mutual respect with Muslim world

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Iran never yields, always follows up its legitimate rights
Kerman, Feb 5, IRNA

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Member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Gholam-Reza Karami said on Sunday that Iran is too trong to be intimidated by existing hue and cry.

Speaking to Basij (volunteer) students members of the IRGC in Kerman, he said recent resolution issued by the IAEA Board of Governors has ignored Iran's legitimate rights for peaceful use of nuclear technology; therefore, the Iranians should never give up their legitimate rights.

"The only way to safeguard the nation's legitimate rights is to confront the bullying powers," he said.

On recent harsh stands taken by the IAEA Board of Governor against Iran and its subsequent reporting Iran's nuclear dossier to the UN Security Council, he said the US and European countries are fully aware of the fact that Iran does not have any nuclear weapon and is never in search of it.

During the past two years some 1400 IAEA inspectors inspected Iran's nuclear facilities and complexes and installed cameras to monitor the country's activities, he said.

Since two years ago, the country has abided by NPT additional protocol without Majlis approval in a bid to build confidence, clearly declared all its activities and fully cooperated with the IAEA inspectors, he said.

In the meantime, the Western countries who chair IAEA's Board of Governors have not accomplished their commitments in dealing with the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and have equipped Israel with over 200 nuclear warheads, he said.

They even refused to assist those countries lacking in nuclear technology, he said.

The Iranian scientists braving all economic sanctions, managed to get access to nuclear fuel cycle, he underlined.

The reason why the Western countries oppose Iran's peaceful nuclear technology is that the Iranian people have declared that hey will never allow anybody to treat them as slaves, he said.

"Why should certain countries have access to modern technology but want others to be deprived of it?" he questioned.

Foreign media try to promote disappointment among people while they have forgotten that the Iranian nation since early days of the Islamic Revolution has been facing economic sanction and by grace of God has overcome it, he said.

The Iranian nation has reached the conclusion that it should adopt a firm stands in dealing with such issues, he said.

He called the recent measure taken by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as timely and courageous and said the president in fact has implemented the ratification of the Majlis.

Iran never yields, always follows up its legitimate rights

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Hundreds in Iran Protest Muhammad Drawings

By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran - Hundreds of angry protesters hurled stones and fire bombs at the Danish Embassy in the Iranian capital Monday to protest publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Police used tear gas and surrounded the walled villa to hold back the crowd.

It was the second attack on a Western mission in Tehran on Monday. Earlier in the day, 200 student demonstrators threw stones at the Austrian Embassy, breaking windows and starting small fires. The mission was targeted because Austria holds the presidency of the European Union.

Thousands more people joined violent demonstrations across the world to protest publication of the caricatures of Muhammad, and the Bush administration appealed to Saudi Arabia to use its influence among Arabs to help ease tensions in the Middle East and Europe.

Afghan troops shot and killed four protesters, some as they tried to storm a U.S. military base outside Bagram — the first time a protest over the issue has targeted the United States. A teenage boy was killed when protesters stampeded in Somalia.

The EU issued stern reminders to 18 Arab and other Muslim countries that they are under treaty obligations to protect foreign embassies.

Lebanon apologized to Denmark — where the cartoons were first published — a day after protesters set fire to a building housing the Danish mission in Beirut. The attack "harmed Lebanon's reputation and its civilized image," Lebanese Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said.

In the Iranian capital, police encircled the Danish Embassy but were unable to hold back 400 demonstrators as they tossed stones and Molotov cocktails at the walled brick villa. At least nine protesters were hurt, police said.

About an hour into the protest, police fired tear gas, driving the demonstrators into a nearby park. Later, about 20 people returned and tried to break through police lines to enter the embassy compound but were blocked by security forces.

As the tear gas dissipated, most of the crowd filtered back to the embassy, where they burned Danish flags and chanted anti-Danish slogans and "God is great."

Two trees inside the embassy compound were set on fire by the gasoline bombs. The embassy gate was burned, as was a police booth along the wall protecting the building.

The Danish Foreign Ministry said it was not aware of any staff inside the building, which closed for the day before the demonstration.

Ambassador Claus Juul Nielsen told DR public television in Denmark that the protesters vandalized the ground floor of the embassy, which included the trade and the visa departments.

The crowd, which included about 100 women, ignored police orders to disperse and kept hurling fire bombs until being hit by tear gas. The crowd dispersed by midnight.

Also Monday, 200 members of Iran's parliament issued a statement warning that those who published the cartoons should remember the case of Salman Rushdie — the British author against whom the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a death warrant for his novel "The Satanic Verses."

The angry demonstrations in Iran recall the Nov. 4, 1979, seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran after the Islamic revolution that overthrew U.S. ally Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The students who held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days faced little or no police resistance in the post-revolutionary turmoil that had brought Shiite theologian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and an Islamic government to power.

There has been a wave of protests across the Islamic world over caricatures first published in September by a Danish paper. They have since been reprinted by other media, mostly in Europe.

The drawings — including one depicting the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb — have touched a raw nerve in part because Islamic law forbids any illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad for fear they could lead to idolatry.

In a meeting with local authors, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemned the cartoons and addressed the West: "Insulting the Prophet Muhammad would not promote your position," the official Iranian news agency quoted him as saying.

The Bush administration urged Saudi Arabia to help stem protests. "Certainly the leaders of the Saudi government might be individuals who might fulfill that role," spokesman Sean McCormack said. "There are others in the region who also might fulfill that role as well."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan issued a broad appeal to "all governments to take steps to lower tensions and prevent violence."

The worst of the violence in Afghanistan was outside Bagram, the main U.S. base, with Afghan police firing on some 2,000 protesters as they tried to break into the heavily guarded facility, said Kabir Ahmed, the local government chief.

Two demonstrators were killed and 13 people, including eight police, were wounded, he said. No U.S. troops were involved, the military said.

Afghan police also fired on protesters in the central city of Mihtarlam after a man in the crowd shot at them and others threw stones and knives, Interior Ministry spokesman Dad Mohammed Rasa said. Two protesters were killed and three people were wounded, including two police, officials said.

Hundreds in Iran Protest Muhammad Drawings

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Iran Tells Nuke Agency to Remove Cameras

By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago

VIENNA, Austria - Iran has told the International Atomic Energy Agency to remove surveillance cameras and agency seals from sites and nuclear equipment by the end of next week in response to referral to the U.N. Security Council, the agency said Monday.

Iran's demands came two days after the IAEA reported Tehran to the council over its disputed atomic program.

In a confidential report to the IAEA's 35-member board on Monday, agency head Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran also announced a sharp reduction in the number and kind of IAEA inspections, effective immediately. The report was made available to The Associated Press.

Iranian officials had repeatedly warned they would stop honoring the so-called "Additional Protocol" to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty — an agreement giving IAEA inspectors greater authority — if the IAEA board referred their country to the council.

A diplomat close to the Vienna-based IAEA told the AP that Iran had also moved forward on another threat — formally setting a date for resuming full-scale work on its uranium enrichment program. Iran says it wants to make fuel through enrichment, but the activity can also generate the nuclear core of warheads.

The diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the matter was confidential, refused to divulge the date.

Robert G. Joseph, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, said Monday that Iran used negotiations with the
European Union to play for time and develop its capabilities.

"I would say that Iran does have the capability to develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them," he said in a response to a question.

In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was still hopeful that Iran will take confidence-building measures with the IAEA.

"It's not the end of the road," Annan said of the Security Council referral. "I hope that in between, Iran will take steps that will help create an environment and confidence-building measures that will bring the partners back to the negotiating table."

In his brief report, ElBaradei cited E. Khalilipour, vice president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, as saying: "From the date of this letter, all voluntarily suspended non-legally binding measures including the provisions of the Additional Protocol and even beyond that will be suspended."

Calling on the agency to sharply reduce the number of inspectors in Iran, Khalilipour added: "All the Agency's containment and surveillance measures which were in place beyond the normal Agency safeguards measures should be removed by mid-February 2006."

Earlier, Russia's foreign minister warned against threatening Iran after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly agreed with an interviewer at the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt that all options, including military response, remained on the table.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for talks to continue with Tehran, adding: "I think that at the current stage, it is important not to make guesses about what will happen and even more important not to make threats."

U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar (news, bio, voting record), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged the Security Council to impose strict sanctions on Iran if it fails to comply with U.N. resolutions and arms agreements and warned that inaction would greatly increase the chances of military conflict. He nonetheless stressed that the United States favors a diplomatic solution.

"Diplomatic and economic confrontations are preferable to military ones," Lugar said. But he cautioned that "in the field of nonproliferation, decisions delayed over the course of months and years may be as harmful as no decisions at all."

The Additional Protocol was signed by Iranian officials in 2003 as pressure intensified on Tehran to cooperate with IAEA inspectors probing more than 18 years of clandestine nuclear activities.

The protocol gives the agency inspecting powers beyond normal, allowing for inspections on short notice of areas and programs suspected of being misused for weapons activity.

North Korea — the world's other major proliferation concern — quit the Nonproliferation Treaty in January 2003, just a few months before U.S. officials announced that Pyongyang had told them it had nuclear weapons and may test, export or use them depending on U.S. actions.

Iranian officials have repeatedly said they will continue honoring the Nonproliferation Treaty. Still, the agreements linked to that treaty are insufficient for agency inspectors trying to establish whether Iran has had a secret nuclear arms program.

Unless Iran relents, the move to curtail voluntary cooperation means that ElBaradei will be stymied in trying to close the Iran nuclear file by March. And that could backfire on Tehran.

Russia and China agreed to Security Council referral on condition that the council take no action until March, when the IAEA board next meets. But if ElBaradei reports to that March 6 meeting that he was unable to make progress in establishing whether Iran constitutes a nuclear threat, the council will likely start to pressure Iran, launching a process that could end in sanctions.

Iran Tells Nuke Agency to Remove Cameras

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Iran Ends Cooperation With U.N., Continues Talks With Moscow

Sunday, February 05, 2006

UNITED NATIONS  — Now that the U.N. atomic watchdog agency has agreed to report Iran to the Security Council, diplomats have vastly different notions about how the body should be involved in negotiations to make sure Iran is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

The five permanent council members are split, with the United States, Britain and France hoping to pressure Iran into backing down with the ultimate threat of sanctions.

However, China and Russia do not want to incite Tehran and would prefer that the council play a limited role. The Iranian allies want the International Atomic Energy Agency to keep the lead in handling Iran.

The Iranian government on Sunday ended all voluntary cooperation with the IAEA, saying it would start uranium enrichment and reject surprise inspections of its facilities. Uranium enriched to a low degree can be used for nuclear reactors, while highly enriched uranium is suitable for warheads.

However, in an apparent reversal, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said the government was open to negotiations on Moscow's proposal that Iran shift its plan for large-scale enrichment to Russian territory in an effort to allay suspicions. A day earlier, an Iran representative at the IAEA meeting said that proposal was "dead."

For the U.S.-led faction, the IAEA's decision Saturday to report Iran represented a great success. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton had pushed for Iran to be brought before the council since his days as U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in 2001-2005.

"It inevitably changes the political dynamic when their nuclear weapons program has been considered in the Security Council, which is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security by the U.N. charter, rather than in a specific agency of the U.N. system," Bolton said Friday.

"The Iranians know full well what they're doing, which is trying to acquire a nuclear weapons capability, and I understand why they don't want people talking about it in the full light of day."

In recent days, the diplomatic debate at the United Nations on the issue has focused on two words -- "reporting" Iran to the council or "referring" it.

The distinction reflects a fundamental difference in view. The Russians and Chinese do not mind if the council is informed of the IAEA's dealings with Iran, but they do not want the IAEA to "refer" Iran to the council. That, they believe, would give the impression that the IAEA was washing its hands of Iran and asking the council to take the lead.

"We and China can accept informing of the Security Council, which is quite normal," Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov said. "That is the right of the Security Council to get any information it needs. But not referral, not official submitting, not handing it to the Security Council."

The debate is so important in part because the Security Council is unique among U.N. institutions as the lone body with the power to impose sanctions or other punitive measures, deploy peacekeeping missions, and grant or deny legitimacy to military action.

And though its resolutions sometimes go ignored or unheeded, there is also a symbolic shaming that goes along with bringing a country before a body whose mandate is to maintain international peace and security.

In Iran's case, the council's options include issuing a public statement without imposing any action or adopting a resolution demanding Iran stop its activities and threatening punishment if it does not. The punishment could include an oil embargo, asset freeze and travel ban.

Standing in the way of any such action is China, which has been blunt about its distaste for punitive measures.

"I think, as a matter of principle, China never supports sanctions as a way of exercising pressure because it is always the people that would be hurt," China's U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said.

For at least a month, in the meantime, the council will not do anything publicly. According to the IAEA decision passed Saturday, the council must wait until the IAEA's Board of Governors meets again next month before considering what to do about Iran.

One precedent is North Korea, which wrangled with many of the same players in 1993 and 1994 over its nuclear program. Through early 1994, the United States pushed hard for the council to impose sanctions but ultimately agreed to drop the threat after North Korea agreed in separate negotiations to freeze its nuclear program.

While there had been months of behind-the-scenes debate in the council, its lone resolution came in May 1993, when it urged North Korea to reconsider its decision to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Colin Keating, an analyst who sat on the council at the time as New Zealand's ambassador, said diplomats hoped for a similar result with Iran, with most discussions about its program taking place outside the Security Council chamber.

"This is a process which everybody is focused on trying to get a particular outcome, and ultimately the passage of a resolution with sanctions is probably a failure of the exercise rather than a success," Keating said.

"This is going to be an ongoing process of many months and it's one in which there will be lots of swirling around and probably very few public meetings of the council and a lot of the action will take place off stage."

Iran Ends Cooperation With U.N., Continues Talks With Moscow

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ran Ends Voluntary Cooperation

Did it ever really start!!

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Did it ever really start!!

Nope, God has had a spin on things, from the begining. Iran has no choice but to follow Prophecy.

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Later than we think

By Arnaud de Borchgrave
February 6, 2006

The man in charge of hoodwinking the Western powers about Iran's now 18-year-old secret nuclear program believes the apocalypse will happen in his own lifetime. He'll be 50 in October.

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Shi'ite creed has convinced him lesser mortals can not only influence but hasten the awaited return of the 12th Imam, known as the Mahdi. Iran's dominant "Twelver" sect holds this will be Muhammad ibn Hasan, the righteous descendant of the Prophet Muhammad. He is said to have gone into "occlusion" in the 9th century, at age 5. His return will be preceded by cosmic chaos, war, bloodshed and pestilence. After this cataclysmic confrontation between the forces of good and evil, the Mahdi will lead the world to an era of universal peace.

    "The ultimate promise of all Divine religions," says Ahmadinejad, "will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being [the 12th Imam], who is heir to all prophets. He will lead the world to justice and absolute peace. Oh mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one." He reckons the return of the Imam, AWOL for 11 centuries, is only two years away.

    Mr. Ahmadinejad is close to the messianic Hojjatieh Society, which is governed by the conviction the 12th Imam's return will be hastened by "the creation of chaos on Earth." He has fired Iran's most experienced diplomats and scores of other officials, presumably those who don't share his belief in apocalyptic conflagration.

    The Iranian leader's finger on a nuclear trigger would be disquieting under any circumstances. Positively alarming would be a nuclear weapon in the hands of a man who badgers Israel, the U.S. and the European Union in belief a pre-emptive aerial attack on Iran's nuclear facilities will hasten the return of the missing Mahdi. Such an attack presumably would trigger anti-Western mayhem throughout the Middle East.

    When he became Iran's sixth president since the 1979 revolution last summer, Mr. Ahmadinejad decided to donate $20 million to the Jamkaran mosque, a popular pilgrimage site where the faithful can drop their missives to the "Hidden Imam" in a holy well. Tehran's working-class faithful are convinced the new president and his Cabinet signed a "compact" pledging themselves to precipitate the return of the Mahdi -- and dropped it down Jamkaran's well with the Mahdi's zip code.

    In Mr. Ahmadinejad's eyes, Iran is strong, with oil inching up to $70 a barrel and America, dependent on foreign oil, is weak. He has said publicly America and Europe have far more to lose than Iran if the U.N. Security Council votes for tough economic sanctions. He also figures if Israeli and/or U.S. warplanes strike Iran, all he has to do is give the U.S. a hard time in Iraq as American forces prepare to withdraw.

    Moving two or three Iranian divisions into Iraq and activating Shi'ite suicide bombers and hit squads throughout the region would not be too hard for a country that fought an 8-year war against Iraq (1980-88) and had no compunction about giving thousands of youngsters a key to paradise and 72 virgins before sending them across Iraqi minefields.

    A top Ahmadinejad officer, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kossari, who heads the political watchdog, or Security Bureau, of Iran's armed forces, recently taunted the U.S. when he bragged "we have identified all the weak points of our enemies" and have sufficient cannon fodder -- i.e., suicide operation volunteers -- "ready to strike at these sensitive locations." Iranian television recently broadcast an animated film for Iranian children glorifying suicide bombers.

    So far, Supreme Leader and Chief of State Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who sits in the holy city of Qom, has not expostulated. Mr. Ahmadinejad appears to have his religious rear well covered. His ideological mentor and spiritual guide is Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi who heads the ultraconservative acolytes who believe the 12th Imam's return is "imminent."

    The son of a blacksmith, Mr. Ahmadinejad earned an engineering Ph.D. and is a former member of Iran's notorious Revolutionary Guards at a time when dissidents and "counterrevolutionaries" were executed by the thousands.

    A.Q. Khan, father of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, first showed Iran how to build a nuclear weapon 18 years ago. He opened his nuclear black market to Iranian engineers and scientists.

    The Bush administration is anxious to clear the decks in a democratic Iraq before facing the Islamist counterpart of the "Rapture" in the "Left Behind" series of books on the end of times by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.

    President Bush says all options are on the table. But the military option is probably the one the "twelvers" would look forward to. Some Washington think tank strategists argue if Iran's Dr. Strangelove attacked Israel with a nuclear weapon, five Iranian cities would be vaporized next day.

    It might behoove the United States to sit down with "axis of evil" Iran to find out if the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) doctrine that kept the Soviet Union and the U.S. at peace for a half-century could still be made to work.

    In any event, one would have to be irredeemably myopic not to see that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. The only question is how far this secret program is from delivering a usable weapon and fitting it in the nose cone of a Shahab-3 missile with the range to reach Israel. The Israeli Air Force will be "overhead" Iran long before.

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"The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World"

Hamas Leader Khaled Mash'al at a Damascus Mosque: The Nation of Islam Will Sit at the Throne of the World and the West Will Be Full of Remorse – When it's Too Late

February 7, 2006

The following are excerpts from an address by Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus. The address was delivered following the Friday sermon at the mosque, and was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 3, 2006.

"We Say to This West... By Allah, You Will Be defeated"

Khaled Mash'al: "We apologize to our Prophet Muhammad, but we say to him: Oh Prophet of Allah, do not be saddened, your nation will be victorious.

"We say to this West, which does not act reasonably, and does not learn its lessons: By Allah, you will be defeated. You will be defeated in Palestine, and your defeat there has already begun. True, it is Israel that is being defeated there, but when Israel is defeated, its path is defeated, those who call to support it are defeated, and the cowards who hide behind it and support it are defeated. Israel will be defeated, and so will whoever supported or supports it.

"America will be defeated in Iraq. Wherever the [Islamic] nation is targeted, its enemies will be defeated, Allah willing. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Palestine. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Iraq, and it will be victorious in all Arab and Muslim lands.

'Their multitudes will be defeated and turn their backs [and flee].' These fools will be defeated, the wheel of time will turn, and times of victory and glory will be upon our nation, and the West will be full of remorse, when it is too late.

"Don't you see that every act of deceit they contrive is being turned against them by Allah? Don't you see that they make every effort to defeat us militarily, but fail to do so? Israel and the occupation forces in Iraq are supplied with the entire Western military arsenal, yet they fail and are defeated.

"Don't you see that they believe they are capable of using democracy to deceive the people, but then democracy is turned against them? Don't you see that they are spending their money in efforts to block the way of Allah, to thwart Hamas, to defeat it, and to help those whom they want, but that [this plot] is turned against them? They are not acting reasonably.

"They do not understand the Arab or Muslim mentality, which rejects the foreigner. Our Arab forefathers, before the advent of Islam, rejected the aggressors and the foreigners.
[...]

"I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true."

"I Say to Europe: Hurry Up and Apologize"

To view this clip, visit:Middle east research media

My note; If they do, it will only be for 7 years.

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 Moslems Threaten Denmark, PM Defends Freedom of Press
22:34 Jan 30, '06 / 1 Shevat 5766
By Hillel Fendel and Ezra HaLevi


Denmark and Norway are under attack from the Moslem world because of a series of anti-Mohammed cartoons. Palestinian terrorists threatened physical attack unless they apologize.


Muslim interests around the world have been in an uproar against a series of anti-Mohammed cartoons that appeared in Danish and Norwegian newspapers. In Iraq, Muslim forces finally made good on their threats today, detonating a bomb against a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol. No one was reported hurt.

In Gaza City as well, five terrorists stormed the European Union headquarters this morning, closing the office down in protest of the cartoon series. At the same time, ten terrorists armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers stood outside, firing into the air and warning Danes and Norwegians not to visit Gaza until their governments apologize.

"We warn the citizens of the above-mentioned governments against not taking this warning seriously," one of the gunmen read from a statement, "because our groups are ready to implement it across the Gaza Strip."

The 12 controversial drawings were originally published last September in the independent Jyllands-Posten newspaper, and afterwards in a Norwegian paper. They included one of Mohammed waving off suicide bombers on their way to heaven, saying, "Stop! We have run out of virgins!" Another one portrays Mohammed wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.

The Danish Prime Minister, Anders Rasmussen, has refused to apologize, defending his country's freedom of press and even refusing to meet with a delegation of eleven ambassadors from Moslem countries who demanded a meeting to discuss the perceived offense.

Saudi Arabia has enacted a boycott of Danish goods, and calls for the same have been heard in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.

Libya announced Sunday the closure of its embassy in Denmark to protest the caricatures of Islam's prophet. A Libyan Foreign Ministry statement said other measures would be taken, but did not elaborate.

Several Kuwaiti MPs have called on Danish and European institutions to take legal action against the cartoonist and the Danish newspaper that originally published his caricatures.

PA Arabs in Samaria burnt and trampled the Danish flag yesterday [pictured above], in solidarity with the protest.

One Arab leader expressed a different point of view. Following the Danish prime minister's refusal to apologize, Afghani president Hamid Karzai, who was visiting Denmark, said he was satisfied with the newspaper's explanation and the Danish government's view. "Prime Minister Rasmussen explained Denmark's position on [the drawings], which was very satisfactory to me as a Moslem," Karzai said.

A recent poll conducted in Copenhagen found that the Danes refuse to give in to the Moslem pressure. The Epinion Research Institute in Denmark reported that 79% of respondents feel that Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen should not apologize on Denmark’s behalf, while only 18% said he should.

Moslems Threaten Denmark, PM Defends Freedom of Press

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Russia ready to help Iran: official
www.chinaview.cn 2006-02-07 19:52:15

    MOSCOW, Feb. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Russia stands ready to help Iran if it is interested in a Moscow proposal for creating a joint venture to enrich its uranium on Russian territory, a senior Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.

    "Our proposal remains in force. If Iranian colleagues are interested, we are ready to help," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

    Moscow's proposal can "help Iran allay all concerns over its nuclear program," Kislyak said.

    Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Monday that Tehran had informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of its decision to resume full-scale uranium enrichment after the UN nuclear watchdog voted to report the Iranian nuclear issue to the UN Security Council.

    But Itar-Tass quoted Iran's government spokesman, Gholamhossein Elham, as saying in Tehran Monday that Iran welcomes contact on any proposal in the nuclear area that would serve its national interests and that the talks with Russia may continue.

    Russia is hoping to hold consultations with Iran on Feb. 16 over the proposal, Kislyak said, adding the parties will discuss not only the nuclear dossier in Moscow, but "the whole range of relations with Iran."

Russia ready to help Iran: official

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06/02/2006

The Austrian presidency of the EU Monday called on Muslim countries to protect EU nationals from attack by protesters angry at European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Austrian diplomats in Damascus, Ramallah and Beirut "protested to the governments concerned," following the violence that erupted in the past few days across the Muslim world, a foreign ministry news release said.

"In the name of the EU, they have demanded that protection for European citizens be ensured and further acts of violence prevented under all circumstances," it added.

Austria also reminded a list of other countries of their "obligations" to protect the diplomatic missions of EU states, naming Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Territories.

The statement came as demonstrators in Tehran pelted and smashed several windows of the Austrian embassy and after protestors torched Danish and Norwegian diplomatic missions in Damascus and a Danish consulate in Beirut over the weekend.

The cartoons were originally published in a Danish newspaper and subsequently reproduced in media across Europe.

Earlier Monday in Brussels, the European Commission condemned the latest wave of violence by Muslim protestors against the cartoons and urged all sides to return to calm debate.

The commission was "aware that the cartoons ... have aggrieved Muslims across the world," said Johannes Laitenberg, a spokesman for the European Union's executive arm.

"But no grievance, perceived or real, justifies acts of violence such as perpetrated on the weekend," he added, saying the EU condemned the weekend violence "in the strongest possible terms."

"It is only through a vigorous but peaceful debate of opinions ... that mutual understanding can be built," the EU spokesman said.

"That is what is at this point in time needed."

Ambassadors from the EU's 25 member states meanwhile met to discuss the latest protests in Brussels, including being briefed by the main countries involved, primarily Denmark.

Afterwards a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy Javier Solana, who attended the talks, said they had "expressed a message of solidarity with the Danes and other delegations whose countries have been targeted by violence."

"We also voiced a message of continuing diplomacy at all levels ... We have to calm the mood; political and religious leaders have to take this message into account," said the spokeswoman, Cristina Gallach.

"We want the situation to return to calm, to dialogue and understanding, to escape from a spiral of disagreement and violence," she added.

EU demands Muslim countries protect its citizens

[Shammu]

Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons

Monday 06 February 2006, 20:00 Makka Time, 17:00 GMT 

Iran's largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper, which is published by Tehran's conservative-run municipality, said on Monday.

He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.

"The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he asserted.

Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated.

Systematic slaughter

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's hardline president, prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel.

Mortazavi said Tuesday's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with "private individuals" offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Last week the Iranian Foreign Ministry also invited Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to Tehran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Blair as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid".

Blair also said Ahmadinejad "should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe", to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators".

Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons

My note........   That's it.....I'm gonna riot and then burn my subscription to the Iranian-Fascist Times.

No, wait...you think that will hurt their feelings?

[Soldier4Christ]

They'll get their rewards.