Considering all the action the UN — action being nothing but UN sanctions and letters saying to stop, pretty please — has taken against Iran, shouldn’t this have been taken care of already? Shockingly, it looks like the all-talk-no-action approach is failing.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the “global arrogance” on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.
“The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism,” Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
“If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles,” he added.
Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world.
Can’t say that I’m too surprised, really. France has been tougher on Iran than we have been. Ahmadinejad has been testing us and testing the world, and what have we showed him? We’ve showed him that we’ll negotiate and issue UN sanctions (that won’t be enforced) and send “stern letters” asking him to stop. Under the Obama administration, Iran has become bolder and bolder. They’ve become a bigger threat than ever. So what will Obama’s reaction to this new threat from Ahmadinejad be? Ask him to come to the US for a beer summit so they can work out their differences?
Obama has no understanding of the gravity of this situation, yet he’s our Commander in Chief. He holds the security of our nation in his hands. And when we are getting threatened by Iran over and over and over again, his response has been to basically do nothing each time. He’s got no courage whatsoever, and while Iran might not make us first on their list of countries to attack (I believe that would be Israel), they will attack somewhere and people will be killed that didn’t need to die. It might not necessarily happen on February 11th, but if Obama doesn’t start taking Ahmadinejad seriously and dealing with the situation now, then we’re going to have much bigger problems from Iran than stolen elections.
Cross-posted at Hot Air.
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Hmmm…
I wonder if this means that they’re ready to test a nuke. Everyone’s been saying Iran will be capable within a year. Perhaps they’re ready now?
You people need to stop misquoting state Press News article, ahmadinejad never said that. Leaders will have their hands busy with the citizens proposing rioting on feb 11, so that doesn’t even make sense to say he would do something that day.
I’m concerned about the same thing, Mat. “A harsh blow to Global Arrogance”? It’s got to mean something pretty significant.
Well Wayne,
In the last few days, the news has been reporting that we’re sending anti-missile ships to the Persian Gulf and that move was translated into basically ‘we’re resigned to the fact that Iran is going to be a nuclear power.’ I hardly think all of that is just mere coincidence…
The people with the behind-the-scenes power in the Middle East, if such people exist, had better get a handle on Iran. A nuclear attack on Israel or the US would mean a holocaust for the world, centered on Tehran.
t grimes,
Dictatorships (and even democracies from time to time) will do something spectacular to take peoples’ attention away from critical issues and problems. Conversely, why would a few protests stop a nuclear test? They’ve been pushing for this moment for several years even in the midst of all of the heavy rioting last year. Do you really think it’s a coincidence that we’re all of a sudden sending anti-missile ships into the Persian Gulf to ostensibly cover the Gulf Council states?