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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (162050)	5/14/2005 11:03:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

My source? This speech Rafsanjani gave in Dec 2001: RAFSANJANI SAYS MUSLIMS SHOULD USE NUCLEAR WEAPON AGAINST ISRAEL TEHRAN 14 Dec. (IPS) One of Iran’s most influential ruling cleric called Friday on the Muslim states to use nuclear weapon against Israel, assuring them that while such an attack would annihilate Israel, it would cost them "damages only". "If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world", Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani told the crowd at the traditional Friday prayers in Tehran. iran-press-service.com Then there was this parade in 2003, as reported in the Guardian. Go look there for your f--n pictures: Iran yesterday defiantly showed off six of its new ballistic missiles daubed with anti-US and anti-Israel slogans in a move sure to reinforce international concern over the nature of its nuclear programme. At the climax of a military parade marking the outbreak of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, the enormous Shehab-3 missiles were rolled out painted with the messages, "We will crush America under our feet' and "Israel must be wiped off the map." guardian.co.uk Your ignorance - and of issues well reported at the time - does not imply my lying. Iran will have a nuclear bomb soon, probably within a year. So you believe that Iran is enriching uranium for purely civilian purposes, being in such need of new energy sources as they are? Do you believe in the tooth fairy and Peter Pan too? Nobody else does.