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PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Akbar Ganji argues for Foreign Affairs Magazine that the real power in Iran is not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nor any other politician; rather, the real power in Tehran is Supreme Religious Leader Ali Khamenei. Khamenei is, Ganji argues, the one who truly decides about all important issues: foreign policy, nuclear energy, oppression in Iran, the economy… everything. As such, [...]
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Stop Sharia Law (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Israel and Islamic unity were two major themes of recent speeches by the ayatollah who rules Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. The world of Islam has awakened, he said, and the "absolute" defeat of Israel is imminent.
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Red State (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Following up on this post , I want to be sure to highlight this article by Akbar Ganji on the power wielded by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Religious Guide of Iran and the person Barack Obama tells us he really wants the United States to negotiate with when he is accused of wanting to sit down with president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read the whole thing, but consider especially passages like this...
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Eye On The World (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
( IsraelNN.com ) Israel and Islamic unity were two major themes of recent speeches by the ayatollah who rules Iran, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. The world of Islam has awakened, he said, and the "absolute" defeat of Israel is imminent. Which means a new Muslim war on Israel is inevitable . But not to worry: if Obama can slow the rise of the oceans and heal our planet , he can easily put the Muslim world back...
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China Confidential (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Foreign Confidential .... Iran's state television network reported Wednesday that the country's so-called Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iran will stand beside the Hamas government in Gaza, and that Israel is weakening and on the path to eventual destruction. The turbaned tyrant called Hamas's prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, a "mujahed"--holy warrior--saying "the Iranian nation...
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China Confidential (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Foreign Confidential.... Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei may no longer be so supreme. The turbaned tyrant is losing power to the mullahocracy's maniac-in-chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Revolutionary Guards. In fact, if the trend continues, Iran will be a mullahocracy in name only. Instead of a clerical fascist country, it will simply be fascist--with clerical backing. So say a growing number...
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China Confidential (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Foreign Confidential. ... Amid reports that the major powers had failed to agree on a new round of UN sanctions against nuclear-arming, terrorist-sponsoring, clerical fascist (Islamist) Iran, the country's top turbaned tyrant and Supreme Clerical Fascist, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tehran's hostility to Israel extended beyond the government to the Israeli people. In saying so, he was dismissing recent...
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Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
Iran's supreme leader brushes aside recent overtures by top Iranian officials to Israeli citizens with statements that could inflame tensions. Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel on Friday with some of his harshest comments in recent memory about the Jewish state.
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Aside from illustrating the complexities of Iranian politics, this outburst by Khamenei has to be taken a great deal more seriously than anything President Ahmedinejad has said. With bellicose rhetoric continuing to emanate from Israel and the US having just reversed our earlier refusal to sell GBU-28 bunker-busters to the Israeli Air Force, it is not a good sign. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Iran,...
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Biga's Rants (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Just a reminder to Obama: Khamenei’s not more moderate than Ahmadinejad Supreme leader Ali Khamenei, the black-turbaned ayatollah who is Iran's top political and military figure, said that Iran's hostility to...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
TEHRAN, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Iranian missiles can target any foreign ship in the Persian Gulf region, an adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei says. Senior military adviser Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi said if war were to break out in the region, Iran has the missile capabilities to target any ship traveling through the surrounding area, the Fars News Agency said Friday. At a...
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
It is easy to ignore the hateful rhetoric that regularly comes from Iran, but it seems to me that Iran's religious/Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has just upped the ante : Iran can not become reconciled with the Israeli people, Ali Khamenei, supreme religious leader of Iran said. During Friday prayers, Khamenei sharply criticized statement by the assistant to the Iranian President Isfandiyar Rahim Meshai...
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LA Times (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Iran's supreme leader brushes aside recent peaceful overtures by top Iranian officials to Israeli citizens with statements that could inflame tensions about a potential conflict. TEHRAN -- Iran's highest authority lashed out against Israel today with some of his harshest comments about the Jewish state in recent memory.
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Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Arab Times : Iran has the power to control the Gulf as no vessel can cross the vital seaway without coming in range of its sophisticated weaponry, a top aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday. The sabre-rattling comments from General Rahim Yahya Safavi came a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency accused Iran of stalling its investigation into the country’s nuclear...
