"Iran's "Big Test"?
I wrote yesterday about the linkage between Iran and events on Israel’s Northern border. Today’s Jerusalem Post contains a report that confirms that connection--Hizbollah wants to transfer the Israeli soldiers they hold to Iran. If Iran is willing to take the soldiers, and Hizbollah is able to get them to Tehran, this would further complicate the crisis and deepen the connection between the events in the Levant and the dispute over the Iranian nuclear program.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been on a tear the past few days, attacking "the Zionist entity" and the West. In a speech Wednesday he stated his belief that international events are working in Iran's favor. "Bullying powers, including the Zionist regime, are bound to collapse in in the near future." The idea that Isarel and the West are on the verge of collapse is a bit much.
In another speech reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency President Ahmadinejad, who apparently has an affinity for the terms "bully" and "entity," threatened Isarel and its suporters once again. According to the IRNA report the Iranian president warned that:
Is Ahmadinejad looking for a "big test?" If he's not, he's certainly doing a good job of painting himself into the proverbial corner. How far will Iran go to back up it's talk? Or is Ahmadinejad only prepared to fight to the last Syrian?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been on a tear the past few days, attacking "the Zionist entity" and the West. In a speech Wednesday he stated his belief that international events are working in Iran's favor. "Bullying powers, including the Zionist regime, are bound to collapse in in the near future." The idea that Isarel and the West are on the verge of collapse is a bit much.
In another speech reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency President Ahmadinejad, who apparently has an affinity for the terms "bully" and "entity," threatened Isarel and its suporters once again. According to the IRNA report the Iranian president warned that:
proponents of the bullying Zionist regime, which has occupied Palestine, should be answerable to the international community. Speaking at a gathering of people in the provincial town of Kalibar, the chief executive said that every government supporting this regime should be aware that its support makes it an accomplice in the crimes committed by the regime. “They should be aware that if they do not stop their support for this criminal regime they will share the same painful fate facing the Zionists,” he added.
The president regretted that in the world of today, the entire humanity is under the rip of several governments, which are united to oppose and oppress the world. Ahmadinejad pointed to the Iranian nation as one of the proponents of Islam, justice and the suppressed, adding that, “We will cry out that we are against tyranny and aggression. However, we shall stand up to the bullying powers. “Given that Iranians have always been following divine guidelines, supported the suppressed and sought global justice, they have always been victorious and have gained honors in big tests.”
Is Ahmadinejad looking for a "big test?" If he's not, he's certainly doing a good job of painting himself into the proverbial corner. How far will Iran go to back up it's talk? Or is Ahmadinejad only prepared to fight to the last Syrian?
