The Rise Of Persia
So, Who Won The War In Iraq? Iran.
Iran Helping To Restore Iraq Security
"The call for Israel to be 'wiped out' has been a recurring feature of Middle Eastern politics for over 60 years...."
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I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee
forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all
sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them
handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya
with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the
house of Togarmah (Turkey) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and
many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and
all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come
into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of
many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste:
but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all
of them (Ezekiel 38:4-8).
Ahmadinejad Meets UN Chief In NY
Sep 19, 2010
Ahmadinejad Meets UN Chief In NY
By PressTv.ir
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/143143.html
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York to discuss global and regional issues. The two officials discussed global peace and security during Sunday's meeting, the president's official website reported. Stressing the necessity of a structural reform in the United Nations, President Ahmadinejad called on UN to provide equal rights and opportunities for all nations so they can play an active role in global issues. Ahmadinejad added, “World peace and security cannot be realized without the participation of all nations and UN can provide such opportunity for them.”
The Iranian president criticized the restriction of right of veto to a few countries and said, “Right of veto means limiting other countries in global management,” adding, “UN should allow all governments to have a share in the management of the world.” Moreover, Ahmadinejad expressed Iran's support for Afghanistan, saying, “The only way to resolve the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is to hand over the country's affairs to the [Afghan] people.” He also highlighted UN's key role in efforts aimed at resolving the problems of Afghanistan and said, “There is no military solution for Afghanistan.” Ahmadinejad also said that the only way to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is holding a referendum.
Touching Iran's nuclear issue, Ahmadinejad said that Tehran declaration was transparent and reasonable, but unfortunately the US-engineered UN sanctions hindered the cooperation in this regard. Despite the fact that Iran agreed to conduct the fuel swap in a third country, on June 9 the UN Security Council passed a resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran. The UN chief, in his turn, called for a "mutually acceptable agreement" in resolving the standoff between Western powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program. Ban "hoped that Iran will engage constructively in negotiations with the E3+3 allowing a mutually acceptable agreement in conformity with relevant Security Council resolutions," a statement from the world body said. Also known as the P5+1, the E3+3 is comprised of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the US.
Later, in an interview with ABC, Ahmadinejad criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors for acting against their regulations by contributing to "unreal" reports. However, the Iranian chief executive underlined that despite IAEA's conduct, Tehran will continue to respect the UN body's guidelines. The Iranian leader is scheduled to deliver a speech at the 65th UN General Assembly session, which officially opened on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The annual summit is to focus on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG Summit) from September 20 to 22. The General Assembly will then be convened from September 23 to 30, while the Security Council meeting is scheduled for September 23. Ahmadinejad will also be delivering an address to the MDG Summit.
Iran
Helping To Restore Iraq Security
Sep 19, 2010
'Iran helping to restore Iraq security'
By PressTv.ir
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/143142.html
A senior Iranian official says Iran considers the security of regional countries as its own, stressing Tehran's firm resolve to help restore security to neighboring Iraq. Iran is making 'constructive efforts' to help ensure Iraq's security, Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Affairs Ali Abdollahi told IRNA. Abdollahi is currently in the Bahraini capital, Manama, to attend an experts-level meeting of the seventh Conference of the Interior Ministers of Iraq's Neighboring Countries.
The two-day meeting which opened on Sunday brings together representatives from Iran, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt and Bahrain. "The ideas and issues brought up in the Manama meeting show that all [of Iraq's] neighboring countries have taken noticeable measures over the past year," said the Iranian official. He went on to add that Iran holds the "establishment of security in neighboring countries as a principal" and believes "countries in the Middle East should live in peace and harmony." Abdollahi said Iran is prepared to work with regional states in fighting illicit drugs. The first Conference of the Interior Ministers of Iraq's Neighboring Countries was held in Tehran in 2003. Since then, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan and Egypt have hosted the event respectively.
So, Who
Won The War In Iraq? Iran.
August 30, 2010
So, who won the war in Iraq? Iran.
Analysis: As US troops became mired in fighting an insurgency,
Iran extended its influence.
By Mohamad Bazzi - GlobalPost
http://www.cfr.org/publication/22863/so_who_won_the_war_in_iraq_iran.html
BEIRUT, Lebanon — In February 2003, as he marshaled the United States for war, President George W. Bush declared: “A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region.” Now, as the U.S. military concludes its combat role — which President Barack Obama formally announced from the Oval Office — Iraq is indeed a dramatic example for the Middle East, but not in the ways that Bush and his administration envisioned. Iraq did not become a beacon of democracy, nor did it create a domino effect that toppled other dictatorial regimes in the Arab world. Instead, the Iraq war has unleashed a new wave of sectarian hatred and upset the Persian Gulf’s strategic balance, helping Iran consolidate its role as the dominant regional power.
The Bush administration argued that its goal was to protect U.S. interests and security in the long run. But the region is far more unstable and combustible than it was when U.S. forces began their march to Baghdad seven years ago. Throughout the Middle East, relations between Sunnis and Shiites are badly strained by the sectarian bloodletting in Iraq. Sunnis are worried about the regional ascendance of the Shiite-led regime in Iran; its nuclear program; its growing influence on the Iraqi leadership; and its meddling in other countries with large Shiite communities, especially Lebanon. Iran is the biggest beneficiary of the American misadventure in Iraq. The U.S. ousted Tehran’s sworn enemy, Saddam Hussein, from power. Then Washington helped install a Shiite government for the first time in Iraq’s modern history. As U.S. troops became mired in fighting an insurgency and containing a civil war, Iran extended its influence over all of Iraq’s Shiite factions.
Today’s Middle East has been shaped by several proxy wars. In Iraq, neighboring Sunni regimes backed Sunni militants, while Iran supported Shiite militias. In Lebanon, an alliance between Washington and authoritarian Sunni Arab regimes — Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries — backed a Sunni-led government against Hezbollah, a Shiite militia funded by Iran. And in the Palestinian territories, Iran and Syria supported the militant Hamas, while the U.S. and its Arab allies backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement. In 2007, at the height of the insurgency and sectarian conflict in Iraq, I went to see Marwan Kabalan, a political scientist at Damascus University. He explained the regional dynamics better than anyone else. “Everyone is fighting battles through local proxies. It’s like the Cold War,” he told me. “All regimes in the Middle East recognize that America has lost the war in Iraq. They’re all maneuvering to protect their interests and to gain something out of the American defeat.”
With U.S. influence waning and Iran ascendant, Iraq’s other neighbors are still jockeying to gain a foothold with the new government in Baghdad. For example, Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al-Saud dynasty views itself as the rightful leader of the Muslim world, but Iran is challenging that leadership right now. Although Saudi Arabia has a Sunni majority, its rulers fear Iran’s potential influence over a sizable and sometimes-restive Shiite population concentrated in the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province. In Bahrain (another American ally in the Persian Gulf), the Shiite majority is chafing under Sunni rulers who also fear Iran’s reach. Even worse, the brutal war between Iraq’s Shiite majority and Sunni minority unleashed sectarian hatreds that are difficult to contain. This blowback has been most keenly felt in Lebanon, a small country with a history of religious strife. During Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, which ended in 1990, the sectarian divide was between Muslims and Christians. This time, the conflict is mainly between Sunnis and Shiites — and it is fueled, in part, by the bloodbath in Iraq.
“Wipe
Israel Off The Map”: The Call By Iran’s President
Oct, 26 2005
“Wipe Israel off the map”: the call by Iran’s President
By BeyondImages.info
http://www.beyondimages.info/b158.html
On 26 October 2005, Iran’s new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, addressed an audience of 3000 in Teheran, at a conference called ‘The World Without Zionism.’ He praised Palestinian suicide bombers and then stated (as quoted in The Times, 28 October 2005): -“Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury [while] any [Islamic] leader who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world… as the Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] said, Israel must be wiped off the map….”
His words were condemned internationally. British Prime
Minister Tony Blair commented angrily, at the conclusion of an EU Summit,
that he had “never come across a situation of a president of a country
saying that he wanted to wipe out another country.” Then UN
Secretary-General Annan voiced “dismay.” To Israelis, if not to the British
Prime Minister, the words of Iran’s President had a familiar ring. The call
for Israel to be “wiped out” has been a recurring feature of Middle Eastern
politics for over 60 years, decisively shaping events in the region.
The UN Partition Plan 1947-8, and Israel’s War of Independence: In November 1947 the United Nations formally adopted its Partition Plan for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Arab rejection of Israel: The Jewish leadership accepted the plan. But the Arab leadership unanimously opposed the creation of Israel and rejected the UN plan. Subsequently, after months of violence and mounting conflict, five Arab armies invaded the new State of Israel in May 1948, to eliminate it at birth. Impact: The Arab desire to “wipe Israel off the map” (or, more precisely, to prevent it ever appearing) lost them the opportunity to create an Arab-Palestinian state in 1947. Instead, what resulted was war and the death of thousands of Jews and Arabs. Opposition to the creation of Israel also hugely exacerbated the Palestinian refugee problem.
The quest to destroy Israel – June 1967: The desire to destroy Israel underpinned the Egyptian–Syrian military build-up against Israel in May–June 1967, and triggered the Six-Day war. Quotes: (taken from Michael Oren’s Six Days of War (2002)): “If war comes it will be total, and the goal will be Israel’s destruction… (Egyptian President Nasser, May 1967).
“Our goal is clear, to wipe Israel off the face of the map….” (Iraqi president Ar’ef, June 1967) Impact: As a result of the Six-Day war, Israel took control of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Old City of Jerusalem. Israel’s occupation of those territories was the result of the Arab aim to “wipe Israel off the face of the map….”
Aiming to destroy Israel - Palestinian terrorist groups 1993
– 2005: The aim of destroying Israel is the explicit strategic goal of
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, and the PFLP
(Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). This goal is frequently
repeated by their leaders and spokesmen, and on their websites. Impact:
These groups sabotage prospects for reconciliation, and a two-state
solution. They exploit Israeli territorial concessions and relaxations in
security measures to carry out more attacks against civilians. They
encourage a sense of victimhood and hopelessness among the Palestinian
population, and wreck Israeli and international efforts to improve
Palestinian human rights.
Negating Israel – Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin December 2003: In
December 2003, the then-leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was asked by
the German news magazine Der Spiegel whether there was any place for a
Jewish state. “They could set up a state in Europe,” Yassin replied – in
other words, Israel as it currently exists should be eliminated. Impact: In
the previous 8 years, Palestinian suicide bombers inspired by Yassin had
killed over 400 Israeli civilians in 42 bomb attacks, as well as many taking
many more lives in drive-by shootings, machine-gun attacks, stabbings, and
other acts of violence. Yassin’s denial of Israel’s right to exist, and his
desire to replace it with an Islamic state in all of Palestine, is the
fundamental pillar of Hamas ideology.
Hamas leaders in August 2005: our aim is to eliminate Israel. In the aftermath of Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, Hamas leaders restated their ambition to destroy Israel. Quotes: “Israel has no right to hold on to one inch of Palestine….” (Muhammed Zahar, Hamas leader, Gaza City); “We make no distinction between Jaffa and Gaza, between Galilee and Hebron… Oh sons of Zion, the defeat you suffered in Gaza is just the beginning…” (Radio Al-Aqsa).
Leading Palestinian cartoonist – “Israel should not exist….” The refusal to accept the existence of Israel, and the recurring desire to obliterate it, is a prevailing theme of Palestinian political culture. Typical are the following comments of leading Palestinian newspaper cartoonist Ommaya Juha, made in January 2003: -Quote: “I believe Israel should not exist…. Jews should live in the land as citizens but not as a country…. Hamas, Fatah, all these factions have the same ideology…. They want all the homeland, all Palestine… I don’t accept a division of the land. I don’t want a return only to the 1967 borders….” Impact: Juha’s candid statement reflects widely held Palestinian feeling. Such views set the tone of Palestinian media, education, literature and the arts.
Incitement in Palestinian mosques to hate Israel and “wipe it off the map”: Outright rejection of Israel features routinely in sermons delivered in mosques throughout Gaza and the West Bank. Israel and its people are vilified; preachers call for war against the country until it is eliminated from the land. Quote: A notorious example came in May 2005 with the weekly Palestinian Authority sermon of Ibrahim Mdeiras, reproduced by Memri (Briefing No 908 availabe at www.memri.org). In the course of his inflammatory sermon, broadcast on PA radio, Mdeiras stated: -“Allah has tormented us with the ‘people most hostile to the believers’ – the Jews. With the establishment of the State of Israel, the entire Islamic nation was lost, because Israel is a cancer spreading through the body of the Islamic nation, and because the Jews are a virus spreading like AIDS, from which the entire world suffers…. Listen to the prophet Muhammed, who tells you about the evil end that awaits Jews. The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew….” One Palestinian politician, Nabil Sha’ath, protested Mdeiras’s comments. But Mdeiras remains a mosque preacher on the payroll of the Palestinian Authority. Impact: Such words feed a culture of Israel-hatred and fanatical violence against the country, cloaked in supposedly religious language. Not only Israel but, it seems, the Jews, are to be “wiped off the map.”
Rejection of Israel on the Middle Eastern diplomatic circuit: There is an undercurrent of rejection of Israel in the Middle Eastern diplomatic arena. On the one hand, Israel has peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan, evolving diplomatic ties with Pakistan and certain Gulf states, and strategic arrangements with Turkey, and there are fundamental political changes underway in Syria and Iraq. But there remains a prevailing undercurrent of rejectionism of Israel in diplomatic circles in the region. An insight into this was recently provided by Judea Pearl, father of the murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl, who has attended many diplomatic forums about Middle Eastern dialogue, but who has nevertheless concluded: “In 2005 I still cannot name a single Muslim leader (or journalist or intellectual) who has publicly acknowledged the Israel-Palestinian conflict as a dispute between two legitimate national movements….” Quote: As an example, Pearl quotes comments made to him in early 2005 by an Egyptian scholar “noted for his liberal-minded and progressive beliefs”: “The Jews should build themselves a Vatican, a spiritual centre somewhere near Jerusalem. But there is no place for a Jewish state in Palestine, not even a national-Jewish state. The Jews were driven out 2000 years ago, and that should be final, similar to the expulsion of the Moors from Spain 500 years ago….”
On this view, Israel should be “wiped from the map” as a
Jewish nation and replaced by a small religious village. The Palestinian
‘right of return’ is a sanitized version of “wiping Israel off the map….”
Palestinian spokesmen and leaders continue to demand an unconditional right
of return into Israel for what they claim to be over four million
Palestinian refugees. They never admit that the logical consequence of this
demand would be the elimination of the State of Israel as a state for the
Jewish people. Israel would be “wiped off the map,” by other means.
The call for a ‘binational Jewish-Arab state’ is a formula for “wiping Israel off the map….” by other means: Many Palestinians and Western sympathizers now call for a so-called binational Jewish-Arab state. Once again, they never explain that this is tantamount to the dismantling of the State of Israel. Nor do they explain how a ‘binational state’ is meant to be achieved when the entire Israeli Jewish population rejects the idea. Calls for a ‘binational state’ are a sanitized, liberal-sounding, supposedly non-violent formula for “wiping Israel off the map” as a sovereign Jewish entity.
Conclusion: The call by Iran’s President for Israel to be “wiped off the map” was widely deplored, internationally. But, regrettably, his words had an all-too-familiar ring for Israelis who yearn for peace and recognition in the region, but have instead had to face decades of hatred and rejection. Calls for Israel to be eliminated take many forms: from brazen threats of war by heads of state, to proposals by intellectuals for the Jewish state to be voluntarily dismantled as a sovereign nation. These calls are all ultimately built on the same idea: Israel as a sovereign nation for the Jewish people has no place anywhere in the Middle East.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
(Joel 3:16-21)
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