Thu Jul 16, 12:29 pm ET
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Newly re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his next government “would bring down the global arrogance,” signaling a tougher approach by Tehran toward the West after last month’s disputed election.
Ahmadinejad, in his first provincial trip after the June 12 presidential vote, said Iran’s enemies had tried to interfere and foment aggression in the country, referring to mass opposition protests against the official election result.
The hardline president, who often rails against the West, said the Islamic Republic wanted “logic and negotiations” but that Western powers had insulted the Iranian nation and should apologize.
Iranian leaders often refer to the United States and its allies as the “global arrogance.”
“As soon as the new government is established, with power and authority, ten times more than before, it will enter the global scene and will bring down the global arrogance,” he told a big crowd in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
“They should wait as a new wave of revolutionary thinking … from the Iranian nation is on the way and we will not allow the arrogant (powers) to even have one night of good sleep,” Ahmadinejad said, according to state broadcaster IRIB.
Opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, Ahmadinejad’s main challenger in the election, says it was rigged in the incumbent’s favor. The authorities reject charges of vote fraud.
Iran has accused Britain and the United States, which have criticised a crackdown on opposition protests, of interfering in its internal affairs. London and Washington reject the charge.
“In this recent election the enemy tried to bring the battlefront to the interior of this country,” Ahmadinejad said.
“But I have told the enemies … that this nation … will strike you in the face so hard you will lose your way home,” he said in comments translated by English-language Press TV.
He also voiced continued defiance in a row over Iran’s disputed nuclear ambitions, saying major powers “will not be able to take away the smallest amount of Iran’s rights.”
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful power purposes. Western countries suspect it is aimed at making bombs.
(Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian; writing by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
Re: Ahmadinejad: Iran will "bring down" Western foes
Ahmadinejad is just like a tiny little dog who likes to bark. It's painfully obvious that he's trying to distract the people of Iran from issues that actually effect their everyday lives. Things like pesky freedoms, corruption in the government, his legitimacy, and of course the economy which Ahmadinejad really doesn't want to talk about.
Re: Ahmadinejad: Iran will "bring down" Western foes
The point is not that he is just barking. The point is that he is barking with some backing. Not his own strength only, but promises (even though they might be empty) from other large Asian countries.
And Iran's internal affairs are others' business, how?
When they violate human rights they open the door. Again, he's barking about world affairs and making empty threats to distracted his countrymen from the internal bleeding taking place at home.
When they violate human rights they open the door. Again, he's barking about world affairs and making empty threats to distracted his countrymen from the internal bleeding taking place at home.
Please....save us the crocodile tears and "longing" for human rights. Where is the noise when Israel brings down the worst of atrocities on Palestinians? Or is the heightened sense of justice and love for human rights only reserved for nations that are not natural allies, while all crimes done by a state in the most facist attire are routinely either ignored, justified, or brushed under the rug.
Please revisit to comment on others affairs, when you have learned to call spade a spade, and have left behind the double-standards you like to consider "open-door/shut-door". The gig is up and world is waking up to the rude reality of hypocritic policies West has for long adopted towards others nations which according to its own definition are termed "hostile".
Re: Ahmadinejad: Iran will "bring down" Western foes
IMO: Sending out these threats serve no purpose at all. We all know the history and the present involvement of the west in Iran (over throwing democratically elected governments). Nonetheless Iran need to focus on re-developing its economy, quit effing with Pakistan in Baluchistan and take it from there.
UTD: Like Vigoratus said, the world has learned the double standards West has. Once the west learns to admit it and make a substantial change in their policies, only than they will have the moral highground.
The point is not that he is just barking. The point is that he is barking with some backing. Not his own strength only, but promises (even though they might be empty) from other large Asian countries.
Pardon my ignorance.. Could you please name these countries and do you sincerely think that any of these countries would have the guts to stand upto the West...
Pardon my ignorance.. Could you please name these countries and do you sincerely think that any of these countries would have the guts to stand upto the West...
North Korea? China? If you consider far-east, Russia (once a Superpower itself)...How many times has North Korea alone deliberately ticked off the Big Bad West? I've kinda lost count...:)
So these countries will bring the west to its knees. Keep dreaming.
Now you're just sensationalizing it. You asked which nations had the guts to stand up to the West. And i named the few nations who have for a while now been doing a pretty good job of vexing the West, and at the very least shown defiance. If that's not standing up, i don't know what is? Would you prefer an all out war instead?
Pardon my ignorance.. Could you please name these countries and do you sincerely think that any of these countries would have the guts to stand upto the West...
You think the west can stand up to the rest of the somewhat super-powers hovering in Asia?
Ahmadinejad is just like a tiny little dog who likes to bark. It's painfully obvious that he's trying to distract the people of Iran from issues that actually effect their everyday lives. Things like pesky freedoms, corruption in the government, his legitimacy, and of course the economy which Ahmadinejad really doesn't want to talk about.
Eyranian dogs barking at amerikan bi.tches.. LMAO...
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"But I have told the enemies[US and UK] ... that this nation ... will strike you in the face so hard you will lose your way home," he said in comments translated by English-language Press TV.....
hahahahha.
Kiya Piddi aur Kiya Piddi ka shorba.
hhahhaha.
p..s Oh Neja, tujhey paraee kiya pari hay, apni nabair tu
North Korea? China? If you consider far-east, Russia (once a Superpower itself)...How many times has North Korea alone deliberately ticked off the Big Bad West? I've kinda lost count...:)
How is North Korea doing these days?
Nurturing and supporting a dangerous and unpredictable neighbor who lives next door in part to agitate the neighbor with the biggest house in the development a few blocks over is a short sighted plan. While North Korea is a thorn in the side of the U.S. the shrub isn't growing in the yard next to theirs. As the house of China grows you can bet that Thorn Bush will end up rubbing against it, that's not good for home values.
Peaceful protesters have no place in Iran, why can’t these protesters just focus on Ahmadinejad’s call to bring down the west instead of freedoms?
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Police tear-gas Iran protesters during prayer
Top cleric Rafsanjani uses sermon to lambast leadership over crackdown
TEHRAN, Iran - Tens of thousands of opposition supporters packed Iran’s main Islamic prayer service Friday, chanting “freedom, freedom” and other slogans as their top clerical supporter, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, delivered a sermon sharply criticizing the country’s leadership over the crackdown on election protests.
Outside Tehran University, where the prayers were held, pro-government Basiji militiamen in front of a line of riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition protesters who chanted “death to the dictator” and called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to resign. Some protesters kicked away the tear gas canisters as others scattered and regrouped.
The opposition aimed to turn the Friday prayers into a show of their continued strength despite heavy government suppression since the disputed June 12 presidential election. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims to have won the election, sat in the front row of worshippers, attending for the first time since the turmoil began. Many of the tens of thousands at the prayers wore headbands or wristbands in his campaign color green, or had green prayer rugs.
North Korea? China? If you consider far-east, Russia (once a Superpower itself)...How many times has North Korea alone deliberately ticked off the Big Bad West? I've kinda lost count...:)
Now you're just sensationalizing it. You asked which nations had the guts to stand up to the West. And i named the few nations who have for a while now been doing a pretty good job of vexing the West, and at the very least shown defiance. If that's not standing up, i don't know what is? Would you prefer an all out war instead?
As for dreaming on....you'd know about that! :)
These countries have been standing up for quite sometime now. Has it made a difference. They can show the defiance for all that they like but the end result is quite the same. An all out war would decimate these countries in a matter of minutes. That is not an option. Standing up is, but this standing up will it change the ground realities. I really dont think so.
