Good news at last

With all the doom and gloom going on at the moment I'm very happy to report some good news. Ahmadinejad's health might be deteriorating.

The health of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is deteriorating, according to reports in the Islamic Republic.

A top aide to Ahmadinejad, Amir Mansour Borghei, told journalists the president was "indisposed".

Iranian news Web site Shahab said doctors had advised the president to reduce his workload if he wanted to avoid illness, quoting "sources close to the government."
The Web site indicated that the president had pulled out of the engagements due to fatigue caused by low blood pressure.

However, other sources in Teheran speculated that the opposition was spreading rumors about Ahmadinejad's health in order to garner support for next year's elections.

Lets hope its worse than his mental illness.

Israel treats cancer stricken Iranian boy

Incredibly the identity of the family of this child has to be kept secret lest they face persecution upon returning to Iran - because they sought help from Israelis (Jews) in their quest to save the life of their child.

The comments section of the Liveleak broadcast includes this from one poster claiming "so fucking what? They have Jewish hospitals in Iran...Do Israeli's allow Iranian hospitals in Israel?....No..I thought not!"

What planet are these people from?

The unravelling of the Syria Iran axis?

Is the secretive (ish) peace process between Israel and Syria starting to take its toll on the Syria/Iran alliance. It would seem so......

Iranian intelligence agencies have recently issued a travel advisory urging officials holding sensitive positions and top Hizbullah figures to refrain from visiting Syria for fear of possible assassination attempts and terror attacks against them, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.

The car bomb explosion near Damascus last week, which killed a senior Syrian army officer and 16 civilians, spotlighted the unprecedented tension between Syria, Iran and Iran's offshoot in Lebanon Hizbullah.

Syrian President Bashar Assad said an Arab state was responsible for smuggling into Syria the car and explosives used in the attack, but did not name the country he suspected.

In another sign of the deteriorating relations between Syria and Iran, Assad ordered the deployment of thousands of troops along the border with Lebanon after calling the country a security threat.

Iran continues to transfer arms to Hizbullah in violation of UN Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.

Meanwhile, Hizbullah has accused Assad of leaking classified information regarding the Lebanese Shiite group's plans to kidnap Israeli businessmen abroad.

According to information obtained by Yedioth Ahronoth, top Assad advisor Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman secretly visited Paris two months ago and disclosed information regarding Hizbullah's plan to abduct two Israeli businessmen in Thailand and in one of the Gulf States.

Suleiman, who also served as Syria's liaison officer to Hizbullah, was assassinated in the Syrian port city of Tartous shortly after Hizbullah's plans were made public in Israel.

Ahmabobblehead lashes out at U.S., Israel

I see the contemptible Ahmadinejad has been coming out with his usual crap in a speech to the UN. What a wanker.

On a day many other world leaders had focused on ways to emerge from the world financial crisis, Ahmadinejad charged that "Zionists" were at the centre of many aspects of the world economy.

"They have been dominating an important portion of the financial and monetary centres of some European countries and the U.S. in a deceitful, complex and furtive manner," he charged.

Ahmadinejad said Israel - which he typically refers to as the Zionist regime - was on a "definite slope to collapse."

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In an apparent reference to the U.S. presidential race, Ahmadinejad suggested a quest for the Jewish vote leads candidates to offer support to Israel they might not otherwise give.

"It is deeply disastrous to witness that some presidential or premier nominees in some big countries have to visit these people, take part in their gatherings, swear their allegiance and commitment to their interests in order to attain financial or media support," he said.

Khamenei says Iran, Israel on 'collision course'

The unelected, fire-breathing "Supreme Leader" of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has come clean about the Iranian regimes true intentions about Israel. If we recall his protégé, a certain Ahmabobblehead, said "the occupation regime over Jerusalem should vanish from the page of time" (depending on whose translation you are to believe). I actually showed, an Iranian work colleague, a phonetic version of Ahmadinejad’s speech and asked him what it meant. His immediate reaction was to wave his hand in contempt and say “wiped away....destroyed”. He then asked me if work for British intelligence.

Let’s take the best case scenario i.e. that Ahmadinejad was referring merely to regime change in Israel. – whatever that is supposed to mean.

Here we have the words of Khameini presumably at Friday prayers:-

TEHRAN -- Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel on Friday with some of his harshest comments in recent memory about the Jewish state.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is Iran's top political and military figure, said his country's hostility to Israel extended beyond the government to the Israeli people as well. In saying so, he was brushing aside recent overtures by top Iranian officials to the Israeli public.

Khamenei said Iran and Israel were on a "collision course," a statement that could further increase tensions in a Middle East already fearful of a conflict between the two countries.


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Khamenei left little doubt about Iran's position on relations with Israel, saying he was raising the issue "to spell an end to any debates" on it.

"It is incorrect, irrational, pointless and nonsense to say that we are friends of Israeli people," said Khamenei, who delivers prayer sermons only on special occasions.

Iranian officials typically increase anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian rhetoric in the week before the last Friday in the holy month of Ramadan, which is called Jerusalem Day in Iran. This year, it falls on Sept. 26.

The Muslim holy city of Jerusalem not being mentioned once in the Koran, of course.