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Tehran: Sarkozy remarks on Iranian missile threat "baseless"

Mar 22, 2008, 14:32 GMT

Tehran - Iran Saturday said remarks by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Iranian missiles being a threat to France and Europe were 'baseless.'

'The baseless claims were made to secure the interests of hard- liners in the United States, support the Zionist (Israeli) media propaganda (against Iran) and increase arms sales to the regional (Gulf) states,' Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said.

Speaking Friday in the northern French port of Cherbourg, Sarkozy had singled out Iran as a threat, noting that Tehran 'is increasing the range of its missiles while there are serious suspicions over its nuclear programme. European security is at stake.'

The website of the Iranian state television IRIB further quoted Hosseini as saying that Iran has been a centre for peace and stability in the Gulf, and its foreign policy guidelines constantly based on international rules and regulations.



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IranianMar 22nd, 2008 - 14:57:40

One question; Is Nicolas Sarkozy jewish?

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NoharnessMar 22nd, 2008 - 15:03:56

Sarkozy does have a point, but it is NOT the risk everyone imagines. He should do a better job of explaining the nature of it and so should the 'news' media.

Once equipped with long range delivery systems and nuclear warheads, Iran can close the Straits of Hormuz with impunity. Why? Because western countries could only respond at enormous risk. Not only could the set off a nuclear weapon under the water in the Persian Gulf, they could back that action by striking European territory with nuclear tipped missiles.

The real threat then is about oil, not direct aggression on Europe or the US. The real answer to the problem is to stop doing business with the Middle East as quickly as it can be arranged. That would bring on many changes and change many, many tunes in the Middle East and the Levant.

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Answers for everyoneMar 22nd, 2008 - 21:00:15

'One question; Is Nicolas Sarkozy jewish?'

Nope.

Another question, aren't you a backwards savage who should be deported back to the monkeyhouse where you came from?

Yup.

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IranianMar 23rd, 2008 - 09:19:20

It pleases me to see zionists so pissed off. Zionists promissed a safe heaven for your kind but it will be you'r last one.

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IranianMar 23rd, 2008 - 09:52:20

Iran has always been a centre for peace and stability in the region and its foreign policy is within the boundaries of international rules and regulations. Can you say the same thing about the Great Satan, US and the cancer cell, zionist regime? Read history and find out what crimes all these colonial powers have commited.

When it comes to the remarks made by Dr. Ahmadinejad and the following zionists media propaganda, this is what our president said.

'The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time'.

Word by word translation:

Imam (Khomeini) ghoft (said) een (this) rezhim-e (regime) ishghalgar-e (occupying) qods (Jerusalem) bayad (must) az safheh-ye ruzgar (from page of time) mahv shavad (vanish from)

Ahmadinejad did not refer to Israel the country or Israel the land mass, but the Israeli regime. This is a vastly significant distinction, as one cannot wipe a regime off the map. Ahmadinejad does not even refer to Israel by name, he instead uses the specific phrase 'rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods' (regime occupying Jerusalem). That's because the word 'map' was never used. The Persian word for map, 'nagsheh', is not contained anywhere in his original farsi quote, or, for that matter, anywhere in his entire speech. Nor was the western phrase 'wipe out' ever said. Yet YOU are led to believe that Iran's President threatened to 'wipe Israel off the map', despite never having uttered the words 'map', 'wipe out' or even 'Israel'.

Now, Zionists have a lot of power in media and it's always easier to read a paper and believe whatever it says than actually looking for the truth. You never hear the truth because of this media wall disconnecting YOU from the real Iran. Did you know that some 600,000 foreign tourists arrived in Iran over the past few days for Noruz holiday making?

A good news regarding asthma and bronchitis.

Iranian pulmonologist Dr. Hamid Rouhi Boroujeni has been able to produce and market two droplets for asthma and bronchitis using herbals.
Boroujeni, who carried out the research along with an Iranian pharmacologist, Dr. Hojjatollah Rouhi Boroujeni, told IRNA Friday that he had been working on Althea Official and Zinger (Zingeber) droplets for asthma and bronchitis control for a long time.

He said the method of using the althea and ginger herbals in the painful asthma and bronchitis chronic diseases had been published in well-credited medical journals of Asia last year.

He added that dosages of the medicine had worked well for the patients suffering asthma and bronchitis and they received relative recovery after their application in a definite period of time.

He noted that failure to treat asthma and bronchitis timely is feared to result in respiratory mall-function, breathing disruption and eventually death.

On advantages of his medicine, Boroujeni said it is especially good for the patients who suffer blood pressure.

'Some people contracting bronchitis and respiratory infections come across with difficulty in consuming medicine due to their blood pressure; using the two droplets will not have any impact on the asthma and bronchitis patients' blood pressure. Bronchitis is a sort of disease which can neither be cured by offering full dosage of antibiotics nor stopped by antibiotics administration,' he announced.

He said bronchitis is a kind of disease customary in different seasons of the year. 'The bronchitis and asthma patients suffer respiratory infections and have breathing problems,' he added.

Meanwhile, Charmahal-Bakhtiari University of Medical Sciences' Deputy Chancellor of Research Affairs Dr. Hassan Youssefi said the research project on the medicinal herbals of ginger and althea was conducted in Shahrekord.

Visit Iran and you will visit it again and again and again.

God bless

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