Safavi: Iran Must Await 'Time for Revenge' Against US, Israel Fars News Agency (Internet Version-WWW) Monday, July 31, 2006 Tehran, 30 July: According to Fars News Agency's correspondent, Commander Seyyed Yahya Rahim-Safavi, speaking this evening, Sunday, at a ceremony inaugurating the Basij Call-Up Network, conveyed his condolences following today's heinous crime and the killing of children, women, and men in the town of Qana by the Zionist regime, and said: America and Britain have been busy killing Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq for four years and Israel, for its part, has been busy killing Muslims in Palestine for 60 years with the support of those two countries. Safavi added: Should Bush, Blair, and Olmert not be tried as war criminals? Are the biggest terrorists not these same governments of America, Britain, and Israel? And are these three countries not the real axis of evil against humanity and Muslims? He repeatedly asked what the duty of Muslims is (in these circumstances), and said: Does the honor (gheyrat) of 1.5 billion Muslims allow the blood of innocent Muslims to be shed in this way in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon? How can people's consciences bear these tragedies? What has happened to Muslims' honor? What has happened to the Arabism, rage, and honor of 250 million Arabs? Why are the heads of Arab countries silent about these crimes? The commander of the (Islamic Revolution Guards) Corps (IRGC) asked: Is silence over these crimes not complicity with the criminals? He added: I hope that the ulema of the world of Islam will make Muslims' duty clear as soon as possible. The religious and Islamic leaders of Muslim countries, the heads of these countries and the media and reporters of Muslim countries must not allow the Zionist regime to achieve its aims with the news boycott that it has created over its crimes. Safavi remarked: If other Muslim countries had a Basij (volunteer force affiliated to IRGC) like Iran and brave leaders like our eminent leader, His Eminence Ayatollah Khamene'i, things would have not come to this for them. I ask God to bring the destruction of the Zionist regime closer in years in view of these crimes and injustices. And the Zionists themselves are bringing their own deaths forward by doing these things, because the Hizballah and the people of Lebanon are unbeatable and the contrived regime and cancerous tumor that Israel is -- which has been created with the aim of pillaging the resources and wealth of Muslims -- must cease to exist (bayad az beyn beravad). He said: I ask God to inflame Muslims' honor and to destroy the leaders who are affiliated to Zionism and America. He added: I hope that our brave and great nation will one day succeed in wreaking vengeance on Israel and America for the blood of wronged Muslims and martyrs. The IRGC commander, addressing Basij and IRGC members, said: We also blame the martyrdom of all our 200,000 martyrs of the imposed (Iran-Iraq) war on America for encouraging Saddam to attack Iran. We have to keep alive in our hearts our sacred hatred of America and Israel until the time for revenge arrives. Safavi said: Undoubtedly, the blood of Muslim nations will one day boil over and spur them to action. I hope that the religious leaders of Muslim countries and, then, these countries' political leaders will be spurred to action in defense of wronged Muslims. Our media and media people, too, must try to make all the freedom-lovers and free-thinkers of the world hear the cries of wronged Muslims.
(Description of Source: Tehran Fars News Agency (Internet Version-WWW) in Persian -- (Khabargozari-ye Fars) is a privately-owned news agency. It began operating in mid November 2002. Its managing editor is Mehdi Faza'eli, the editor in chief of the Javan daily and a member of the managerial board of the Association of Muslim Journalists. The other members of the board of directors of the news agency, are Alizera Shemirani, of Farda newspaper, Abdollah Moqaddam and Akbar Nabavi of Resalat newspaper, the former director of Farabi Foundation Hasan Eslami-Mehr, and university professor Abolhoseyn Ruholamin.) -------------------------------------- For more translations and news on terrorism, visit http://www.lauramansfield.com or visit our forum at http://www.lauramansfield.com/forum/ Strategic Translations is a service provided by Laura Mansfield through http://www.lauramansfield.com You may email Laura at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Strategic Arabic Translations is a fee-based translation service of LauraMansfield.com. For information on subscribing, please see http://www.lauramansfield.com/ or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives of previous issues are available at http://www.lauramansfield.com/archives.htm Copyright 2005 LauraMansfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
