From The Guardian:
Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today launched an angry attack on “doomed” US-brokered Middle East peace talks and urged the Palestinians to continue armed resistance to Israel.
Ahmadinejad used the annual al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally in Tehran to scorn the Obama administration’s efforts in launching the first Arab-Israeli negotiations in nearly two years.
“What do they want to negotiate about? Who are they representing? What are they going to talk about?” the hardline Iranian leader said of the Palestinian negotiating team in Washington.
“Who gave them the right to sell a piece of Palestinian land? The people of Palestine and the people of the region will not allow them to sell even an inch of Palestinian soil to the enemy. The negotiations are stillborn and doomed.”
Iran supports Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian movement that controls the Gaza Strip and opposes talks by Mahmoud Abbas, the western-backed PLO leader who is based in the West Bank. Its armed wing claimed responsibility for killing four Israeli settlers near Hebron on Tuesday. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups have vowed to carry out more attacks.
“The fate of Palestine is determined in Palestine and through the resistance of the Palestinian people, rather than in Washington, Paris and London,” Ahmadinejad said in his live TV broadcast.
Letting Iran build their reactors and glad handing Islamists has only shown our weakness and the vulnerability of our allies. We know where this is going, Ahmadinejad will keep pushing and we he finds we have no spine for a push back he will move overtly into Iraq, allow his proxies to start a new war with Israel and shut down oil routes to put the final nail in our economic coffin. Muslims culture only respects strength, and America has shown them nothing but weakness.
Perhaps related, Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi told reporters that the Holocaust was a “superstition” created by the West.
I also believe Iran is trying to blackmail Azerbaijan into an anti-Israel/anti-US/anti-Armenian/anti-Britain alliance.
They have got us by the short hairs as long as we buy their oil. Drill, drill in the Dakotas and offshore. Crush Hamas and the jihad. It would take us about as long as it did when we went into Iraq the first time.