Hostile Relations Quotes
When he made this statement he was Chief of Staff to the President of Iran. What is facinating is that a man of this seniorority can utter the last sentence. When israeil first was created by the United Nations over 10 Arab Armies attacked and invaded Israel and were beaten back. Thereafter of all the wars against Israel, the Israelis started only one-- a preemtive attack after Arab Armies started their attack plans but had not yet invaded. In each successive war Israel repulsed the attacks and then controlled more territory than before the war. Yet the man said that no one has attacked Israel.
One difficulty of diplomacy with many Islamic leaders is that the culture produces very aggressive rhetoric and very aggressive actions like Islamic terrorism. This quotation is often cited to demonstrate that it is the Iranians that had decided that America is it’s enemy; that America is to be humbled; and that their weapons development are targeted at America. This along with the most frequent Iranian slogan, “Death to America,” for many argues for preemptive military action or maintenance of a high state of readiness. Given statements like this from the leading soldier of the theocracy, there is little doubt that Iranian nuclear weapons would be a great danger to America. Therefore when Iran complains that America did not object to the fact that other nations have the nuclear bomb, they do not take their own rhetoric into account. No other nation with possible nuclear capability has made America its major military adversity and claims as an objective to humble the United States.
His fear was well founded. That is exactly what the British tried to do.
declared against the United States by Barbary Algeria
This quotation was used by the Goldwater campaign in 1964 to make the point that Fidel Castro was an evil and that the Democrats had not done anything about him. Four decades later Castro was still in place but neither party would chastise the other on this issue since both had their chance and neither succeeded.
