Khamenaei, referred to as the "Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution" by Iran's official English-language news web site, was quoted as saying that "victory in Lebanon and Israel's defeat in the war fronts opened a new chapter in history of the Middle East."
Addressing worshipers in a sermon after the Eid El-Fitr holiday prayers at Tehran's Mossalla Prayer Grounds, the Ayatollah said, "The policy the US wished to implement in the Middle East has failed. ...Nations of Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, other Arab states of the region, of Iraq and of other Muslim nations should be watchful not to take any move to help the treacherous plans of the US and Zionists. Whatever is regarded as a success for the US and the Israeli regime is harmful to all Muslim states. Whatever pleases the aggressors and plunderers in the region, would make all regional nations unhappy and depressed."
In another message from the Iranian leadership to the Persian nation, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on Muslims to create a baby boom to double his country's population. He said birth control policies should be scrapped, and that women should work less so they can spend more time on the "main mission" of raising children.
Ahmadinejad said, "I am against saying two children are enough. Our country has a lot of capacity. It has the capacity for many children to grow in it. It even has the capacity for 120 million people. Westerners have problems. Because their population growth is negative they are worried and fear that if our population increases, we will triumph over them."
Regarding Iran, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz stated that the nation's nuclear program represents an existential threat to Israel. "We must be prepared," Halutz told an industrial forum on Friday, because Tehran is capable of using a nuclear weapon against the Jewish State.
Meanwhile, Knesset Member Muhammad Barakeh of the Arab-Communist Hadash party declared that the government vote this week to bring Avigdor Lieberman's nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party into the coalition is a "declaration of war against Iran." Lieberman will be appointed to the newly created position of minister for coordinating Israel's strategic response, a role developed with an eye towards countering the Iranian nuclear threat.
Addressing worshipers in a sermon after the Eid El-Fitr holiday prayers at Tehran's Mossalla Prayer Grounds, the Ayatollah said, "The policy the US wished to implement in the Middle East has failed. ...Nations of Lebanon, Iran, Palestine, other Arab states of the region, of Iraq and of other Muslim nations should be watchful not to take any move to help the treacherous plans of the US and Zionists. Whatever is regarded as a success for the US and the Israeli regime is harmful to all Muslim states. Whatever pleases the aggressors and plunderers in the region, would make all regional nations unhappy and depressed."
In another message from the Iranian leadership to the Persian nation, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on Muslims to create a baby boom to double his country's population. He said birth control policies should be scrapped, and that women should work less so they can spend more time on the "main mission" of raising children.
Ahmadinejad said, "I am against saying two children are enough. Our country has a lot of capacity. It has the capacity for many children to grow in it. It even has the capacity for 120 million people. Westerners have problems. Because their population growth is negative they are worried and fear that if our population increases, we will triumph over them."
Regarding Iran, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz stated that the nation's nuclear program represents an existential threat to Israel. "We must be prepared," Halutz told an industrial forum on Friday, because Tehran is capable of using a nuclear weapon against the Jewish State.
Meanwhile, Knesset Member Muhammad Barakeh of the Arab-Communist Hadash party declared that the government vote this week to bring Avigdor Lieberman's nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party into the coalition is a "declaration of war against Iran." Lieberman will be appointed to the newly created position of minister for coordinating Israel's strategic response, a role developed with an eye towards countering the Iranian nuclear threat.