Ahmadinejad Slams U.S. Arms Deal, Support For Israel
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran’s president criticized the U.S. on Friday for its plan to increase weapons sales to several Arab countries and step up military aid to Israel, saying Washington was trying to impose its dominance on the Middle East.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments were sparked by Washington’s announcement earlier this week that it would sell advanced weaponry to Persian Gulf nations worth at least $20 billion and provide new 10- year military aid packages to Israel and Egypt.
“All U.S. efforts are for the creation of differences among our brothers in the region to impose its ideas and hegemony,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying on his office’s official Web site. “Americans feel their relations with regional (Mideast) countries are weakened, and under cover of this, the arms deal, they want to make relations warm.”
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited U.S. allies in the Middle East this week to discuss the proposed military package, seen as a counterweight to Iran’s rising influence in the region.
Ahmadinejad also criticized U.S. support for Israel and Washington’s efforts to promote Arab-Israeli peace.
“The U.S. plans to introduce Israel as a friend of the regional (Arab) countries,” the Iranian leader said. “Instead, they want to portray the Iranian nation, brother and best friend of Arab nations, as their enemy.”
The U.S. accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons and supporting Shiite militias in Iraq, charges Tehran denies.
The Sunni-led governments of the Middle East are also wary of Shiite Iran’s growing power, and Israel views the country as its principal enemy. The U.S. hopes to capitalize on this fear to rally support for its efforts to isolate Iran.
During his visit, Gates said the U.S. “can’t wait years” for Iran to change its policies and argued that more countries needed to support U.N. sanctions to put additional pressure on Iran.
Ahmadinejad called on Arab nations to spurn the U.S. weapons deal, arguing they should “spend the resources for progress and development of their countries.”
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Gawd! He looks damn hot in those shades and Members Only jacket! Sorry, Ted Kennedy … You’ve been replaced!
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:10 pmSweet members only jacket, I think he is about the last member though.. he looks like a 70s porn star with those shades on too..trying to cover up that monkey face
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:36 pmAwhhh…is little Hitler mad about the arms deal for Israel?
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:41 pmThat’s just too damned bad.
Fuck him and his sorry goatfucking ass!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pmIn that picture, does he remind anyone else of the CSI: Miami guy?
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:14 pmAhmadinejad is shittin’down his leg about now. He knows if his neighbors have weapons that surpass his, they can tell him to fuck-off and die, and there’s nothing he can do about it.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:55 pmhe will suck cocks in hell before this is over
and hopefully a US made weapon will send him there soon
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:18 pmThink he uses John Edwards’s hair dresser? That would mean he spends more than Johnny Boy, since he’d have to fly the guy to Iran …
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:19 pmAnother one feeling anxiety.
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:54 pmOmg that photo is FUNNY!
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:01 pmhahha the csi miami guy. classic.
my sources tell me he got that outfit from the Al Quds fashion brigade. at least he will die in style now. polyester vs. 5000lb bomb, who will win? stay tuned.
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 pmmaybe sean penn needs to pay him a visit, lift his morale
August 4th, 2007 at 5:16 amFucking hypocrite.
Repeal the “We will not assasinate heads of state policy.”
August 6th, 2007 at 9:14 pm