Monday, 20 August 2012

The Latest from Iran (20 August): "Time's Up for Bullying Oppressors"

The Supreme Leader, President Ahmadinejad, Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani, and head of judiciary Sadegh Larijani at Sunday's ceremony for Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan


0725 GMT: CyberWatch. Digarban claims the websites of three Grand Ayatollahs --- Makarem Shirazi, Vahid Khorasani, and Iraq's Sistani --- were hacked after they declaring the end of Ramadan for Monday, challenging the Supreme Leader's proclamation of Sunday.

Digarban asserts that seven leading clerics set Monday for the end of Islam's holiest month.

0700 GMT: We begin with Sunday's speech by President Ahmadinejad to officials and foreign ambassadors --- in the presence of the Supreme Leader and the heads of Parliament and judiciary ---  in which he, according to Press TV, declared "the time for bullying policies of the oppressors is over and they will soon meet their doomed destiny".

It should be added that Ahmadinejad did not appear to be referring to his Government or to those on the stage with him. Instead, he said that, when the divine ideals of humans are realised, "there will remain no sign of bullies and Zionists and of tyranny, injustice and humiliation of human beings”:

The Iranian nation will join hands with other nations...to stand more resolutely and more powerfully up to bullying and arrogant powers in order to restore its rights and establish monotheism, justice and human dignity across the world.

 

The Supreme Leader was a bit more specific in his assessment: "Zionism as a threat for all humanity."


from EA WorldView: EA Iran

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