Ahmadinejad: Israel and the U.S. would not dare attack Iran

[bemildred]

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said neither Israel, nor the United States, would dare attack the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, a Spanish newspaper quoted him as saying in an interview.

The Iranian president was responding to a question on a recent article by Britain's Sunday Times that Israel had secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.

"They well know the power of the Iranian people. I don't think they would ever dare to attack us, neither them nor their masters. They won't do such a stupid thing," Ahmadinejad told El Mundo during a visit to Nicaragua, referring to Israel.

Conservative Iranian leaders, such as Ahmadinejad, see Israel as a stooge of the United States in the Middle East.

Haaretz

[Turbineguy]

1. Israel a stooge of the US..

well, that's a fresh view!

[bemildred]

3. Seemed a little blunt, even for Haaretz.

Of course the question as to who is the sock-puppet and who is the puppeteer is always good for a heated but inconclusive debate here.

Ahm-an-idjit seems to be continuing his belligerent ways, you'd almost think he doesn't view an attack as a bad thing ...

[John Gauger]

5. Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.

He knows that we don't have the infantry to defeat Iran. A victory over the United States would be a glorious event in the history of Persia. I guess he's from the old school that sees glory in the killing of young foreigners.

[bemildred]

7. Seems very old school to me.

I think his internal political situation more of less demands lots of external threats, too, very Bushlike in that respect. If the US started sucking up to Iran, I don't know how long he would last.

[John Gauger]

9. I've noticed that too.

I've read that he is seen as too regressive by many Iranians. My understanding is that he mostly rules on fear. If we stopped looking like a threat I think he would be out on his ass.

[bemildred]

8. And off we go ...

:popcorn:

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This is like Mae Clark challenging James Cagney in "Public Enemy"

and ending up with a grapefruit in the puss.

[confludemocrat]

4. Correction, Ahmadinejad: The U.S. is the stooge of Israel

we will bear any burden, pay any price, to prop them up

[CJCRANE]

6. But who's really in charge...

who are the real Bush-Cheney paymasters?
And would they benefit from seeing Iran knocked over just like Iraq?