French FM hails Iran’s ‘stabilising’ role in Mideast

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France also boycotted the meeting to discuss the “international stabilization force” for Lebanon yesterday.

**French FM hails Iran’s ‘stabilising’ role in Mideast **

Iran is a key player in the Middle East and “plays an important stabilising role” in the region, French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Monday. “It is clear that we cannot accept a destabilisation of Lebanon that could lead to a destabilisation of the region. **In the region there is a great country like Iran which is respected and which plays an important stabilising role in the region,” he said during a visit to Beirut. “We think more than ever than the Iranians are an important and respected actor,” **he said after talks with Lebanese officials. His comments came amid a mounting standoff between Western countries and Iran, which the United States accuses of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the charges. Iran has also been accused of offering material backing to Hizbullah in its conflict with Israel but Tehran insists its support for the Shia militant group is purely moral in nature. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was also due in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese leaders on Israel’s war on Hizbullah, officials said.

Meanwhile, Iran stepped up verbal attacks on Israel on Monday, declaring after the deadly raid on the Lebanese village of Qana that Israeli officials would suffer a fate worse than that of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Iranian state television quoted Defence Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar saying that a “fate worse than those of Hitler and Saddam awaits Zionist criminals and their supporters.” Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, as Russian forces closed in on his bunker in Berlin. His death hastened the end of World War II. Saddam Hussein, ousted president of Iraq and enemy of Iran, is on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity over the killing of Shiites in the 1980s. He faces execution by hanging if found guilty and a verdict is expected October.Najjar’s comments were the latest in a war of words which has intensified since July 12, when Israel launched a huge offensive in Lebanon against the Shia Muslim group Hizbullah, which enjoys Iran’s moral support. Iran has denied US and Israeli claims that it also provides military backing.

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France is two-faced, dont let them fool you.

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Yup, two faced to everyone.

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I like French Fries! oops! I meant Freedom Fries.

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All countries are 2 or more faced, so is France.

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That's what they thought about Germany too. Until the German troops starting marching down the Champ Elysee. Then it was too late.

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One thing's for sure, no one will ever accuse the french of having a testosterone ratio that's too high.

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One thing is for sure, if ** **american soormas had faced the German whermact and Luftwaffe in 1939, it would have handed over the continental US to the Germans within 24 hours...

At least the French survived two weeks...and american in their trade mark cowardace let the Russians sort the Germans out...

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No no no please don't be too harsh on oops sorry amreekans... Forget Germany they first have to lick their wonds from thrashing they got from Vietcong and Shri lil Kim the Jr.... One step at a time my friend.

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That's quite a laughable "what if" scenario . Too bad for Hans & co that dur blitzkrieg couldn't quite make it across the pond. Ach du leibe!

How are your islamist heroes faring lately in their quest to destroy the west? One thing is for sure, the french aren't the bottom of barrel when it comes to military execution.

NOTE: nick twisting is forbidden!

Congratulationz Namaan
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I read a pamphlet one time, "French War Heros".

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Hitler was after all a demented psychopath with no ability to think rationally most of the time, and if you knew anything about the history of dubya dubya 2, instead of what you are force fed in the bible belting regions of the US, you would have known, Hitler decided against a ground invasion of England and did nothing to completely annihilate the British forces, which he was quite capable of doing, given the vulnerability of the fleeing British forces in the aftermath of the Dunkirk debacle. Therefore, dur blitzkrieg, voluntarily and quite stupidly did not even cross the channel, let alone the pond…Had it done so…at least the british would have been speaking deutch and the Americans would have acquiesced.

Islamic heroes are faring pretty well these days...just ask the IDF...

JANE'S DEFENCE WEEKLY - AUGUST 09, 2006

IDF setback at Bint Jbeil

Ed Blanche JDW Special Correspondent
Beirut

An elite unit of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) suffered a major setback in its thrust into south Lebanon on 26 July when it was confronted by fighters from the Islamic Resistance - the armed wing of the Lebanese Shi'ite Party of God (Hizbullah) - in the strategic hilltop village of Bint Jbeil.

In fierce close-quarter fighting, often hand-to-hand, two infantry companies of the IDF Golani Brigade's 51st Battalion were apparently ambushed in the village's narrow streets.

The IDF suffered eight dead - including the battalion's deputy commander, Major Roi Klein, who threw himself on a grenade - and 25 wounded; they were forced to withdraw in some of the heaviest combat since the fighting began on 12 July.

The battle of Bint Jbeil (Arabic for 'Daughter of the Mountain') underlined the difficulties the IDF faces in pushing Hizbullah out of the chain of interlocking strongpoints, including fortified bunker networks, it has built since the Israelis unilaterally withdrew from south Lebanon on 23 May.

Hizbullah is forcing the Israelis to fight on its terms on ground of its choosing, negating much of the IDF's firepower and its doctrine of highly mobile operations.

Bint Jbeil, 4 km from the Israeli border, dominates several key roads in the rolling hills and wadis east of Tyre and was a strategic objective in the armour-led Israeli thrust that began on 20-21 July to establish a cordon sanitaire to halt Hizbullah rocket fire into northern Israel.

The IDF had declared on 25 July that it controlled Bint Jbeil, which proved to be totally false. Intelligence had estimated 30-40 Hizbullahis were holding the town, when in fact there were closer to 200, including men from surrounding villages who had reinforced the garrison during the night.

After six hours of combat, two more Israeli companies were sent in to help evacuate the wounded, carrying them 3 km under fire to four waiting UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters. The IDF withdrew from Bint Jbeil on 29 July and by 31 July Hizbullah had given little ground.

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Its the interests(bread)...and not principles my friends...

Wake up fools...we are living in an age of nafsa nafsi... :D

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Not just the French realise the importance of talking to Iran.

http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=3987

**Ex-spy chief: Talk to Iran **

A former Israeli spymaster called for talks with Iran aimed at ending the crisis in Lebanon. Efraim Halevy, a former head of the Mossad, said Wednesday that along with trying to force Hezbollah to free two soldiers abducted last month, Israel should be speaking to the militia’s sponsors in Iran. “There will be no release of the two Israeli soldiers without the Iranians giving their consent,” Halevy told Army Radio. The remarks were unlikely to be taken seriously by Israeli officials, who have publicly ruled out negotiations on the hostages, or with Iran, whose president calls for the Jewish state’s destruction.