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Thursday, January 3, 2002
Ex-president of Iran
backs nuking Israel
Rafsanjani warns of WWIII:
'Leave nothing on the ground'
� 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Former Iranian president Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a major
speech, has advocated the annihilation of the state of Israel with
nuclear weapons.
If the Islamic world comes to possess nuclear weapons, he said in his
"World Al-Quds Day" sermon, attended by thousands of Islamic
worshippers, their use in attacking Israel would "leave nothing on
the ground" in the Jewish state, but would only damage Islam.
Here, collated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, are the core
elements of Rafsanjani's speech, delivered at Tehran University on Dec. 14. The text
below, rather than a single direct translation, is a
composite based on reports in three Iranian newspapers � Iran News (English), Kayhan
(Farsi) and Al-Wifaq (Arabic).
'Artificial' state of Israel
"Global arrogance, led by the U.S. and U.K.," is responsible for the crimes that the
"artificial" state of Israel has been committing worldwide over the past half-century,
said Rafsanjani, who currently holds the position
of "Expediency Council" chairman.
The U.N. and other segments of the arrogant world have been supporting Israeli crimes,
he said, and -- cautioning against what he called "global arrogance arms buildup [by
the U.S.]" in an attempt to revive the colonialis
t era -- he asked nations and governments to prevent colonialism from attaining its
goals.
"International Zionism," Rafsanjani added, "has been the driving force of this ugly
phenomenon; Zionism is divisive; a century has passed since the onset of Zionism, but
not every Jew is a Zionist, and not all members of
the Zionist party are Jews."
He noted that the Zionist party is still highly active worldwide, and is the driving
force of important events taking place in the world in connection with Israel. He
called the disasters that have occurred in the half-ce
ntury- old state of Israel an encyclopedia of colonial crimes. Palestinians are not
the only ones to have suffered from the plan to establish this "forged" Israeli state;
he said, adding that the Jews too are paying the p
rice.
Rafsanjani claimed that the Jews had a place in various parts of the world, living
rather well in each country. But this phenomenon [Zionism] caused them to take a
stance regarding their religious state and leave their ho
mes, under pressure and in the name of migration [to Israel]. Jews should wait for a
day when this "extraneous matter" would be removed from the region and the world of
Islam, and those who have gathered together in Israe
l would one day be dispersed again.
The formation of the Zionist state in the land of Palestine, said the former Iranian
leader, was a multi-faceted base for colonialism. By this means, the West rid itself
of Zionism, while establishing it in Palestine. Mea
nwhile, the colonialists affiliated themselves with Zionism and the state of Israel so
as to keep them like a tool in their service, even though, for its own survival,
colonialism is itself dependent on Zionism.
With the formation of Israel, colonialists created insecurity in the region, exposing
states to threats so as to bring them under the dominion of colonialism, said
Rafsanjani. The survival of Israel depends on the interes
ts of global arrogance and colonialism, and as long as this base is beneficial to
them, they will preserve it.
Solving 'Israel problem' with nukes
Rafsanjani said that Muslims must surround colonialism and force them [the
colonialists] to see whether Israel is beneficial to them or not. If one day, he said,
the world of Islam comes to possess the weapons currently i
n Israel's possession [meaning nuclear weapons] -- on that day this method of global
arrogance would come to a dead end. This, he said, is because the use of a nuclear
bomb in Israel will leave nothing on the ground, wher
eas it will only damage the world of Islam.
Is unlikely that the Palestinian jihad will weaken, said Rafsanjani, who explained
that the Palestinians have come to the conclusion that talks [with Israel] are
effective only along with struggle and self-sacrifice � the
two key elements that gave way to the second Intifada. The Palestinian jihad is the
mother of many Islamic movements, he said, ranging from the [1979] Islamic Revolution
in Iran to Islamic movements in Lebanon, Afghanist
an, Malaysia, Central Asia, and many other Muslim states. All these Islamic movements
support the Palestinian jihad and have not forgotten it. The Palestinian jihad has its
roots in the homelessness of five million people
. Undoubtedly, [this jihad's] culmination will be the liberation of Palestine, he said.
The threat of WWIII
Rafsanjani added that in its propaganda campaign against the Palestinian jihad,
colonialism used four tools: propaganda, violence, deception, and the instrumental
application of the Palestinian Authority. He warned the ag
ents of world arrogance of the day when they would pay dearly for the pressure they
were applying on the Palestinian people, as one day these exhausted, pious, and
martyrdom-seeking people would decide to strike at the vi
tal interests of [global] arrogance everywhere, and they will do this � it is
possible, he said.
Rafsanjani advised Western states "not to let the situation reach this [point] and not
to pin their hopes on Israeli violence [to serve Western goals] � because it will be
very dangerous. We are not willing to see the sec
urity of the world disrupted."
Rafsanjani warned of the outbreak of World War III: "The
confrontation of pious and martyrdom-seeking forces with the highest
forces of colonialism is extremely dangerous, and might inflame a
third world war."
In the present circumstance, concluded Rafsanjani, the world and the
region need sobriety on the part of nations and states, on the one
hand, and realism and fairness on the part of "arrogant" powers. We
hope that problems will be solved on the side of right, justice, and
truth, he said.
Iran's annual tradition of marking World Al-Quds Day on the last
Friday of the month of Ramadan to show its solidarity with the
Palestinian people was introduced by the late Ayatollah Ruhallah
Khomenei.
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