New Iran President Backs Assad, Hizbullah
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Iran's president-elect has sent messages to Syria's Bashar Assad and Hizbullah, reaffirming support for the two allies.
The official IRNA news agency on Tuesday cited Hassan Rowhani as saying close Iranian-Syrian ties will be able to confront "enemies in the region, especially the Zionist regime," or Israel.
Rowhani said Syria will "overcome its current crisis."
The note was in response to Assad's congratulatory message on Rowhani's June election. Tehran has sided with Assad's regime in Syria's civil war.
Rowhani also wrote to Hizbullah's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, saying Iran backs the "steadfast nation" of Lebanon and the Palestinians, a reference to Hamas.
He highlighted the group's "endeavors" for the anti-Israeli resistant front -- comprised of Iran, Syria and Lebanon.
The notes reflect Rowhani's intentions to emphasize links to Iran's key regional allies even as he urges for greater outreach to the West.
17 July 2013, 09:05
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Wolf two wrongs don't make a right. Israel got nukes despite the attempts of the west to block them, but Israel never promised to wipe the Arab world or to ever use these weapons publicly. Also, despite my hate to Israel and all their heinous actions against the Palestinian people if they didn't have nukes they would've been attacked and destroyed long time ago it's simple math.
Iran is a volatile country and have threatened several times attacking other countries and involved in sectarian instigations between Shia and Sunnis. The minute they get nukes Saudi Arabia and several other Arab countries will do the same to deter Iran and than we have a much bigger problem on our hands.
17 July 2013, 09:25
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As usual -the wolf - gets his basics wrong.
Even if Israel does have nuclear arms, they NEVER have threatened to wipe out another country. Iran threatens Israel almost every day.
Ever since Israel is supposed to have obtained their nuclear weapons they have fought wars with Arab States or terrorist organisations, but have never threatened to use them.
Now let's look at the situation where Iran fires a nuclear weapon at Israel. It has to fly over Iraq and/or Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and will quite probably be exploded in the air over one of them. How many Arab casualties will there be from this? Israel's response would be massive wiping out Tehran, missile bases and nuclear plants, once again killing millions.
What will happen if the Iranian missile gets through, it will destroy Tel Aviv, and also the Arab populated Jaffa, and quite probably quite a lot of Jerusalem which also has Moslem and Christian populations and Holy Sites. How will the world look on this?
17 July 2013, 09:08
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"comprised of Iran, Syria and Lebanon"... you mean Iran, Syria and Hizbulla don't you?
"enemies in the region, especially the Zionist regime,"... more of the usual babble, from another Ayatollah stooge.
17 July 2013, 10:02
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Sorry, but excuse me general pup: this one is not another ayatollah stooge as you wrongly claim.... This one is educated and has 2 degrees from a Scottish university that he never attended. Respect yourself..... !
17 July 2013, 11:35
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@formerlebaniz do you realize how inacurate the things you listed in your comment are? First of all yes Iran threatens to do this and that but never did attack one neighboring country of theirs and still are very far to having a nuclear weapon. On the other hand you have Israel which does not threaten anyone but rather acts upon their military capabilities every single day bombarding Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey etc etc. They just simply do not care. And pardon me but Israel did not have nukes in 1947 or 1967 and still managed to swipe and destroy and oppress and kick out Palestinians from their homeland. Result was war in Lebanon.
17 July 2013, 11:48
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What do you think the war against Iraq was - scuffle? How about its war against Israel through hizbulla? How about their hundreds of sabotage and terrorist ops all around the Arab world? How about the attempt on the saudi ambassadors in the US? Yes, they had several wars with the Arab world no doubt but the nukes did act as a deterrence against their annihilation. I hate to say it but it's the fact.
17 July 2013, 12:46
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A short Iranian spring indeed, and I fear that the summer is gonna be hotter than hell. This new president was the last hope by making everyone confused, but he just gave the Israelis the excuse they needed.
17 July 2013, 15:33
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Iraq attacked Iran through America's supplies of weapons in the Iraq Iran war. And then when the former attacked Kuwait, the United States government realized that they had indeed been mistaken in their judgement and took it upon themselves to go to war with Iraq in the first Gulf war (1990). Second when you talk about the wars between HA and Israel we cannot forget that HA is a Lebanese entity represented in our government and elected by Lebanese citizens wether we like it or not and their decisions approved by most political parties until recently 2006-2007 when M14s, after being allied with HA during elections, had decided to split ways. True HA is aided by Iran and is somehow under an Iranian Agenda but so is Israel with their American counterparts. Just trying to put things in perspective here and make it clear that both axes are not working for the sake of Lebanon and its future. Let's not be one-sided.
18 July 2013, 00:57
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Let us just remember that the USA financed Iran in its war against Iraq in the infamous Iran-Contra affair by channeling drug money to Israel in exchange for arms to Iran. All this happened while Iranians were chanting "Death to America". Iran is the country of hypocrisy.
