Khomeini, Rafsanjani, Khatami, Khameini ...and now... and what the hell is the difference, anyway?
Ayatollah who backs suicide bombs aims to be Iran's next spiritual leader ..or.... Hojatieh go for broke ..I hope Israel is purchasing about a dozen KC-10's
An ultra-conservative Iranian cleric who opposes all dialogue with the West is a frontrunner to become the country's next supreme spiritual leader. Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi Mohammad Mesbah-YazdiIn a move that would push Iran even further into the diplomatic wilderness, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, 71, who publicly backs the use of suicide bombers against Israel, is campaigning to succeed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini, 67, as the head of the Islamic state.
Considered an extremist even by fellow mullahs, he was a fringe figure in Iran's theocracy until last year's election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a fellow fundamentalist who views him as his ideological mentor. He is known to many Iranians as "Professor Crocodile" because of a notorious cartoon that depicted him weeping false tears over the jailing of a reformist journalist.
HOJATIEH, folks ..the guys the freak Khomeini tried to stamp out as too extreme.
Notice that NOWHERE in the Telegraph article is this word mentioned. Too frightening for the peoples?
Time to review Rainbow Orange, GW.
Time to at least sit down with Charlie Rangel.
Move assets to Diego Garcia, and watch Russian communications to Teheran carefully. Maybe a little "AF is short of water" action.
Time to plan for actual action. Time to hunt for Hizballah HERE. Cells HERE. Smugglers on the border, now ..so were those votes worth it, btw?
But I digress...
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