Criminally Irresponsible
The civilised world, and the Israeli government, have joined in the predictable chorus of indignation over the Iranian president's call for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map". Shimon Peres said that "the remark contravened the UN's charter" and was "tantamount to a crime against humanity", much as labelling Iran a member of an "axis of evil" manifestly is not. Rhetoric, like the law and nuclear weaponry, is only dangerous when the wrong people use it.
President Ahmadinejad was quoting Ayatollah Khomeini, who died in 1989. Khomeini's call to annihilate the Zionist state was taken up by Hashemi Rafsanjani in 2001. "Such calls," says the BBC, "are regular slogans" wherever the benighted Iranians congregate to discuss the United States or its Zionist lackey; and yet the Zionist state is still with us.
The United States enjoyed a cosy friendship with the Shah, whose policies of democratisation were so popular in Iran that they provoked the 1979 revolution. The United States enjoyed a cosy friendship with Saddam Hussein, whose decade-long war of aggression against Iran involved the use of chemical weapons supplied by companies from the US and western Europe. Alas, the mad Iranian mullahs and their crazed, fanatical subjects have yet to learn to appreciate the good we have done them.
"Calls for violence, and for the destruction of any state, are manifestly inconsistent with any claim to be a mature and responsible member of the international community," sermonised the European Union. No member of the European Union, least of all the current president, would dream of calling for violence or the destruction of any state. The current president of the European Union is Blair's Britain, which recently helped its master destroy the Iraqi state ("regime change"), more or less without calling for violence.
Israel, which is itself in violation of one or two United Nations resolutions, has called for Iran to be expelled from the UN, presumably so that Israel and its allies may apply the principles of the UN charter to Iran with an appropriate degree of rigour.
President Ahmadinejad was quoting Ayatollah Khomeini, who died in 1989. Khomeini's call to annihilate the Zionist state was taken up by Hashemi Rafsanjani in 2001. "Such calls," says the BBC, "are regular slogans" wherever the benighted Iranians congregate to discuss the United States or its Zionist lackey; and yet the Zionist state is still with us.
The United States enjoyed a cosy friendship with the Shah, whose policies of democratisation were so popular in Iran that they provoked the 1979 revolution. The United States enjoyed a cosy friendship with Saddam Hussein, whose decade-long war of aggression against Iran involved the use of chemical weapons supplied by companies from the US and western Europe. Alas, the mad Iranian mullahs and their crazed, fanatical subjects have yet to learn to appreciate the good we have done them.
"Calls for violence, and for the destruction of any state, are manifestly inconsistent with any claim to be a mature and responsible member of the international community," sermonised the European Union. No member of the European Union, least of all the current president, would dream of calling for violence or the destruction of any state. The current president of the European Union is Blair's Britain, which recently helped its master destroy the Iraqi state ("regime change"), more or less without calling for violence.
Israel, which is itself in violation of one or two United Nations resolutions, has called for Iran to be expelled from the UN, presumably so that Israel and its allies may apply the principles of the UN charter to Iran with an appropriate degree of rigour.
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