Ahmadinejad tells west to respect Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday the West should cease speaking to Iran “in the language of force” if it wants to resolve the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
“If you continue to speak to Iran from a position of strength, the Iranian people will never accept this,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at an event marking the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
Ahmadinejad also said that Iran was ready to return to talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear program but said the West must “respect Iran’s rights.”
He also said Iran would not bow to pressure and budge from its principles.
Ahmadinejad was speaking to the backdrop of increasing tensions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program. Western powers suspect Iran of seeking to create a nuclear bomb and have tightened sanctions. The European Union will also stop importing Iranian oil from July 1. Tehran says its program is aimed at the production of civilian energy.
Speculation has been growing in recent weeks that Israel may be preparing to attack Iran to counter what it views as a serious threat to its national security. The United States has also refused to rule out force.
“The West and Israel think only of their own interests… but they must know their time will come,” Ahmadinejad told thousands of supporters at Tehran’s Freedom Square.
He also told the West to stop interfering in the Middle East. Ahmadinejad also praised Iran’s achievements since the 1979 Islamic revolution and said Tehran would make an important announcement on the progress of its nuclear program “in several days.”
Also present at the rally at the foot of the Alborz mountains were members of Iran’s elite revolutionary guard.
Ahmadinejad’s arrival at the rally was met with confetti dropped by military helicopters that swooped low above the cheering crowd.
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Ah, yes- it’s time for the rancid rtcsrreueion of the Madagascar Plan. The President of Iran is in good historical company.This was an idea that had been kicking around since the 1890s, to forcibly remove all Jews from Europe and resettle them in Madagascar. That way, they could be controlled better and not allowed to contaminate the rest of the world.In May 1940, Heinrich Himmler advocated sending the Jews to Madagascar. About this plan, Himmler stated:_However cruel and tragic each individual case may be, this method is still the mildest and best, if one rejects the Bolshevik method of physical extermination of a people out of inner conviction as un-German and impossible. _ (Heinrich Himmler as quoted in Christopher Browning, Madagascar Plan Encyclopedia of the Holocaust Ed. Israel Gutman (New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1990) 936.)_The Nazis had been expecting a quick end to the war so that they could transfer European Jews to Madagascar. But as the Battle of Britain lasted much longer than planned and with Hitler’s decision in the fall of 1940 to invade the Soviet Union, the Madagascar Plan became unfeasible. Alternate, more drastic, more horrific solutions were being proposed to eliminate the Jews of Europe. Within a year, the killing process had begun._I have read accounts of some Germans who blame the resulting extermination of Jews in Europe on the British and Russians.