Jihad Watch.comOh, and all that genocidal rhetoric against Israel? Just kidding!
"Imam Khamenei says Iran will never seek atom bomb," from the Ahlul Bayt News Agency, February 19 (thanks to Block Ness):
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Friday that the country neither believes in atomic bombs nor is it seeking to develop such weapons.The Leader said the continuation of allegations by the West that the country is pursuing military objectives in its civilian nuclear program signals that the propaganda campaign against Iran has failed.
Iran has announced many times, he said, that its fundamentals and religious principles consider weapons of mass destruction as "illegal and haraam" -- meaning forbidden and prohibited according to Islamic rules....
Iran in no way believes in an atomic bomb, and it does not seek one, Imam Khamenei said....
Yes, but were his fingers crossed when he said it?
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After a dozen years of nonsense, lies, and false assurances, from now this Iranian leader and now that, that nonsense, those lies, those false assurances, all increasing pari passu with the frenzied pace of work on the nuclear bomb project, and after 1300 years of a doctrine that originates in Shi'a Islam (though now the common property of Muslims of all sects), the practice, craft, art of Taqiyya (a working out of Muhammad's celebrated "War Is Deception"), that is religiously-sanctioned dissimulation undertaken to protect Islam and Believers, we are now to listen to the Supreme Leader, Khamenei, and expected to believe him.
What are we being taken for? Utter fools? Flynt Leverett?
Hugh: Yes we are being taken for utter fools but nothing wrong with that because it's what we are. Aren't we?
David, Thailand
"Iran has announced many times, he said, that its fundamentals and religious principles consider weapons of mass destruction as 'illegal and haraam' -- meaning forbidden and prohibited according to Islamic rules...."
I see, weapons of mass destruction are haraam, but threatening to wipe Israel off the map is not?
And Iran threatens to destroy to masses: Israel, but not with weapons of mass destruction? I guess they're gonna use a lot of little bombs to achieve their objective, but one big bomb is unthinkiable? Huh?
They really are unbelievable, both in what they spout off about and for chutzpa.
I think this only means they're going straight for the Hydrogen Bomb.
Atom, schm-atom!
The imams want the latest instrument of the Apocalpyse.
Not that minor Hiroshima stuff.