TEHRAN: Iran "will respond with full force" to any attack, or even any threat of military action, the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told students at a Tehran military college Thursday.
"The enemies, especially America and its stooges and the Zionist regime (Israel), should know that it is not Iran's custom to invade any country or nation. But it will respond with full force to any aggression or even threats in a way that will demolish the aggressors from within," he said, according to a statement on his official website.
Khamenei's forceful language followed threats last week from Israel that air strikes could be in the offing against Iran's nuclear sites. Israeli President Shimon Peres said last weekend that such action was becoming "more and more likely."
Rhetoric between Iran and its two principal foes, Israel and the United States, has risen since the release Tuesday of a UN report saying there was "credible" evidence suggesting Iran's atomic programme was being used to research putting nuclear warheads in ballistic missiles.
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@Proud Baloch: Just putting your two paragraphs in the reverse order: "...Indians are dark, short and thin while Arabs (Levant) are white, healthy and strong. It’s in human nature to discriminate on weak beings. " "...I don’t know where you are getting this info about Indians being treated bad in Hajj from? Because those ‘ racist ‘ days are all gone. " So which one is it: "Those racist days are all gone" or "It’s in human nature to discriminate on weak beings (dark, short and thin Indians). " Incidentally, since Pakistan decided to switch their descent from "dark, short and thin Indians" to "white, healthy and strong Arabs", Pakistanis have become noticeably whiter, healthier, stronger and taller!!! Handsomer, too!!!
Ayatollah Al Khamenei became the supreme leader in 1989. A Marxist and a cleric he purported himself as an ordinary man. He kept a low profile, while devoting himself to wielding power by empowering the Revolutionary Guard, which reports to him. Earlier critics stated Khamenei had no vision but followed the legacy of his predecessor and mentor, Ayatollah Khomeini. No, it's not true, Khamenei wants to make a nuclear power out of Iran.
@G. Din: I don't know where you are getting this info about Indians being treated bad in Hajj from? Because those ' racist ' days are all gone. I have seen myself how kind Saudi police were. And don't believe me if you don't want to idc. And btw you can't fault the Arabs for treating Indians bad can you. Indians are dark, short and thin while Arabs (Levant) are white, healthy and strong. It's in human nature to discriminate on weak beings.
@Cautious: Actually they were volunteers, perhaps you can check the dictionary and see what the term "volunteer" means.
@Bangladeshi: Please read what I have said carefully. Where do you find racism in my post? You said there are no castes in Islam. Technically true, but Islam has sects, instead of castes, such as Shias, Ahmadis, Qadhianis etc. ,the schism between whom is so murderous that killing is resorted to routinely. In a caste system, howsoever bad it may be, no killing takes place. When you say that in Islam everyone is equal, I challenged you by a specific example of continuing killing by Arab Muslims of African Muslims . It does not matter if you consider yourself to be equal to Arab Muslim, it is whether they consider you to be equal to them that matters. Ask all those who perform Hajj from South Asia and they will tell you that Muslims from this area are treated like dirt by Arabs even as they turn over bushels of their hard-earned money to them. No one is asking you to forsake your beliefs. You may hold on to them tight and not examine them in a rational light. That is your choice. No one cares. And, my friend, why would any one care to read your Quran when those who have read it behave in a bestial way uniformly, great majority of them, towards every non-Muslim in every corner of the world. We are not interested in Mohammed. He might, just might, have been the greatest man alive, but he is not there to answer any questions, if you get what I mean!
@Observer & @G. Din : As expected your posts are filled with racist nonsense and shows your utter lack of knowledge of Islam & the subcontinent. You called me bigoted just because my ancestors choose the correct path unlike their brothers. Your argument about DARFUR & whether ARABS would count me as an equal doesn't matter as Allah(swt) through our Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) gave us equal status to the arabs. You can't judge ISLAM by the behaviour of today's muslims but if you have to judge it just analyse the Lifestyle of our beloved Prophet & his blessed companions who were model Muslims not the muslims of darfur, BD, PAK, Suadi etc.
Great leaders Iran have. Just wait for the time when Pakistan would have true Muslim and patriot Pakistani leaders and by God Almighty, we will get revenge of every injustice and barbarity. We Pakistanis are always standing with Iranian brothers. All Muslims are one nation.
If he is like the last Ayatollah he will have no problem sending Iranian children to be slaughtered why he and the Mullah's sit back and make speeches. In a perfect World we would get rid of all the nukes --- keeping nukes out of the hands of religious zealots and holy men that use 3'rd party terrorist to attack their enemies is a reasonable goal.
Closed fists are always dangerous you never know what to expect.Cheers for the leader of oppressed.May God Bless him.
@Rashid Junior: hindu terrorism?? there is no such thing in this world,
....and the world knows any word coming out of the Supreme Leader is not just to make political sounds....they would mean it.
@Rashid Junior: the world knows who the terrorist nations are.
@Rashid Junior:don't call hindus terrorists.if i'm not mistaken mohd.zina was also hindu
@Weird: I don't understand why you go in the trouble of talking about a religion that you know nothing off. In ISLAM there is no such thing as RACE , all human beings are equal and a non-arab is no less equal to an arab & vise-versa. Nationalism, etnicity & race are alien to Islam and people willingly accepted this religion throughout the world including iran. Had ISLAM been forced on people , India would not have been a hindu majority state today even after 1000 year of islamic rule. All of india would have been a muslim Majority with not an iota of hindus & christians.
who gives right to israel usa uk france and the rest of the world to possess nuclear weapons and iran cant have it for its own defence ? and it would be devastating to attack iran cause its not iraq or afghanistan its a united country with very strong military and in these current ecnomic climate no one have a capacity or will to attack someone especially when chinas hunger for energy which they partly getting from iran and russias against any military intervention so i dont think anything will happen but then again no one gives anyone right to deprive a country to achieve something they want especially when so called civilised nations already got it !!
@ Weird: Your outlook is as weired as your name, The Aryans are standing up to local bullys, not getting between Arabs and jews, get your history in order, There are Jews and their are Zionist. The Iranians are standing up to the Zionist (mostly european Jews, who are dominating the true Israelis ) and by the ways it was the Christian German who slautered the JEWS. Not Muslims
@Ali: Those who are Posting here Anti-Irani comments are Rsss Nazio-Fascist Hindu Trolls. Curse of God be upon these Hindu Terrorists. These Miscreants have nothing else to do. Their State Sponsored Hindu Terrorist Leader Col. Prohit had been actively involved in Placing hundreds of Bombs in his own country and in Samjhota Express while Blaming for those Explosions on Pakistan. This Miscreant Hindu Rss Terrorist was sponsored by the Hindu State to carry out such activities in Disguise. Their Hindu terrorist Religious Wings has yet bigger acts of Terrorism under their Belt. I totally Agree that Terrorist Nations Like India must be Banned from such activities and Their weapons confiscated.
I never understood why an Aryan people like Iran is getting into a fight between the Arabs and the Jews? Perhaps, this is what happens when Aryans are converted from their indigenous religion to an Arab religion and they lose their real identity and become subservient to the "muslims".
@god
As i know Iran is well established country..if Americans n Israili have the right for the same. den wts wrong with the Iran. its balance of rights. Wt is america doing around the world. U know it all.
@Mj: you sound like an Israeli....
Everyone has the right to have weapons for self defense. USA has it. And they are the ONLY ONES who have used nuclear weapons on innocents. Stop being a usa puppet.
Muslims don't judge Iran from their beliefs anymore. So stop dividing us. They have taken stand against all the oppressors.
destructive weapons in the hands of weak/ highly biased/ immature/ unstable countries are dangerous to the world
@ MJ: why would anyone want a nuclear weapon for the World...period, not to forget Israel who refuses to disclose the nuclear arms it has. . Stop looking at the world with one eye open Those of you who are jumping with excitement with the prospect of war should read the Asiatimes on the creditability of the source and the meek chairman of IATA.
Israel just need a one small punch............
Why would anyone want for Iran to have nuclear weapons? Remember that it is the same country which sent thousands and thousands of children into minefields in one of the worst possible disregard for human life, and it is a country whose leadership is eagerly anticipating the apocalypse.
Great leader..