Some interesting stuff from Iran

I am not fond of Ahmadinejad, the leader of Iran. I think he's a terrorist in presidential clothing, and from what I understand, most Iranians can't stand him and can't wait until they can vote his extremist self out of office.

There was an article on Yahoo News. It's about Iran defending their actions against Kurdish terrorists in Iraq.

But as I read the article, it sounded very much like the Isrealis defending defending themselves against attacks by Hamas.

Now, we all know Iran's prez hates Isreal and Jews, and condemns every breath they take. So I find it odd that he would literally act like Isreal.

Don't get me wrong - I think Iran has a right to defend herself against terrorists who seek to kill innocent Iranians with bombs and missiles and what have you. What I find odd is that Iran's leader thinks HE has a right to defend Iranians from bombs meant to kill civilians, but Isreal does not have a right to defend her civilians.

I also think Iran has a responsibility to target only the terrorists, just as I believe Isreal has that same responsibility. By the same token, I think if the PJAK terrorists are hiding behind women and children, Iran has a right to nail the terrorists anyway, just as Isreal has a right to nail Hamas terrorists who cowardly hide behind women and children.

That Ahmadinejad is a silly goose. He has a standard for Isreal, but doesn't have to live up to that standard himself.

It is imperative that Iraq is protected from this idiot. Right now he's shelling the Kurdish region of Iraq. If the PJAK isn't reigned in, he has a good excuse to do it, and the beginning of what could end up the gradual extension of his bombings into other regions of Iraq in his quest to make Iraq part of Persia.

So now, I present the article - have a little fun, and insert "Isreal" for "Iran", and "Hamas" for "PJAK", and "Iraq" for "Palestine", and see if you don't get a chuckle out of Iran defending the very actions that they condemn Isreal for.



TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has confirmed for the first time it has been firing artillery shells on camps of Kurdish militants inside northern Iraq, saying the local authorities had not listened to its warnings.

The militant Kurdish separatist group PJAK -- linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- has been behind a string of deadly attacks on security forces in northwestern Iran in recent months.

"Some of their bases are 10 kilometres (six miles) deep inside Iraqi territory so this is part of our natural right to secure our borders," said General Yayha Rahim Safavi, military adviser to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"Of course we issued warnings to the Iraqi government and told them to take them (the rebels) away from the border and respect its obligations," Safavi said in an interview with Iran's English language channel Press TV late Saturday.

"But unfortunately the Kurdistan region, the northern part of Iraq, did not listen, so we feel entitled to target military bases of PJAK and they have been under our artillery fire," he added, according to the channel's English translation.

Safavi, the former head of the elite Revolutionary Guards, gave no details of when the firing had taken place or if it was continuing.

Iraqi Kurdish officials said last month that hundreds of Iraqi Kurds had fled remote mountain villages near the country's eastern frontier after Iranian gunners targeted separatist guerrilla bases.

But Vice Foreign Minister Mehdi Mostafavi vehemently denied on September 3 that Iran had shelled rebel bases in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Safavi said that "groups of four to five" Kurdish militants from PJAK (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) at a time moved across the border from their bases in Iraq to carry out attacks in western Iran.

"They set off bombs and they create insecurity. And I think it is part of our natural right to fight such rogue counter-revolutionary armed groups as they are creating insecurity."

Earlier this month, seven members of the Iranian security forces were killed in a shootout with "rebels" in the western province Kermanshah, which has a substantial Kurdish population.