Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran, Israel on 'collision course'
Los Angeles Times
19-Sep-2008 (2 comments)

TEHRAN -- Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel today with some of his harshest comments about the Jewish state in recent memory.

Supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the black-turbaned ayatollah who is Iran's top political and military figure, said that Iran's hostility to Israel extended to the Israeli people, as well as the government, brushing aside recent peaceful overtures by top Iranian officials to ordinary people in the Jewish state.

Khamenei said Iran and Israel were on a "collision course," a statement that could increase tensions in a Middle East already fearful of a conflict breaking out between the countries.

"Who are Israelis?" Khamenei told thousands of worshipers gathered for Friday prayers in downtown Tehran. "They are responsible for usurping houses, territory, farmlands and business. They are combatants at the disposal of Zionist operatives. A Muslim nation cannot remain indifferent vis-à-vis such people who are stooges at the service of the arch-foes of the Muslim world."

Iran and Israel are locked in a war of words. Israel accuses Iran of seeking nuclear weapons under the guise of a peaceful energy program and supporting anti-Israeli militant groups in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. Iran's leaders have repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish state, which they consider a Western colonial outpost.

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Mehdi Mazloom, well said.

by Farhad Kashani on Sat Sep 20, 2008 07:28 PM PDT

Mehdi Mazloom, well said.


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Mehdi Mazloom

Khamenei is in colligion course!!!!!

by Mehdi Mazloom on Sat Sep 20, 2008 01:59 PM PDT

Now, with whom this pretty Arab-lover is he not in collision course. Just about the rest of the world.

Lets reply to some of this pathetic man's deranged comment.

K. Said:

Khamenei said Iran and Israel were on a "collision course," 

Now, why does he think that he and his brutal regime will fair any better, in case of "collision course" with most powerful state in the region, with the most fearsome and determined military force?.

K. said:

"Who are Israelis?" Khamenei told thousands of worshipers gathered for
Friday prayers in downtown Tehran. "They are responsible for usurping
houses, territory, farmlands and businesses. They are combatants at the
disposal of Zionist operatives. A Muslim nation cannot remain
indifferent vis-a-vis such people who are stooges at the service of the
arch-foes of the Muslim world."

Maybe this backward Mullah should ask a more poignant question: "who were those blood thirsty and savage Bedouin nomads, who in 635 AD invaded the beautiful, peaceful and prosperous Persia. Then imposed their barbaric and backward religious dogma on one of the most sophisticated and developed society of its time. Robbing local Persians of their 5000 year heritages, identities, customs and  history - replace them by names and belief set by an illiterate man 1500 km away in  Madinah.

Who are the people who stole 3 Arabian island (Abu Moosa) from UAE and call it theirs.

This is just another one  of those of a Mullah preach morality, while himself runs a prostitution ring.

K said:

"The Iranian nation never recognized Israel and will never ever
recognize it," he said at a news conference. "But we feel pity for
those who have been deceived or smuggled into Israel to be oppressed
citizens in Israel."

The fact is, this backward, does not speak for all the Iranian People. Rather reflects the few of few of his own fundamentalist co-hordes.

Also, who's the hell cares what this man says about Israelis. They couldn't care less about Khamenai's opinion. Despite his spewed venom, Israel have been prospering and getting stronger and stronger - while poor Iranians are oppressed and their livelihood is being sucked under their feet due to the policies of this backward creature.

"Jews tricked into Israel"?. He can bet his cowboy tarboosh that 1.2M of those persecuted Jews whom were living throughout the Arab and Islamic countries won't agree with his delusional opinion. These Jews and their decedents in Israel have the most precious element to which, the Islamists like him never accorded to them. Freedom and pride of their heritage.  

The real collision course for Iran, it its massive 27% inflation rate and 14% unemployment. People are thrown in the streets with no means to sustain themselves. Yet, these akhoonda are more worried about the welfare of the Arabs in Gaza and Lebanon.


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