‘It Will Fall on Their Heads Like Lightning’: Iran Warns Israel, Slams U.S. at Remembrance Ceremony
- Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:30pm by
Jason Howerton
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Over the weekend, Iran’s leaders used the 23rd anniversary of the death of Islamic Republic Founder Imam Khomeini to bash the “Zionist” regimes in Israel and the U.S.
Thousands gathered in Tehran to hear Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei give his keynote address, where he cautioned the two countries not to undermine the Islamic awakening spreading throughout the Middle East. He also issued a stern warning to Israel not to make any future “misstep,” PressTV reports.
“The (Isreali officias) know that under the current circumstances, they are more vulnerable than ever. If they make any misstep or wrong action it will fall on their heads like lightening,” he said.
But Khamenei didn’t stop there. He also criticized the United States and said the country’s influence inside many nations across the globe is dwindling, the Tehran Times reports.
“Today, the West is putting on an affectation,” he said. “They are experiencing financial, economic, and social problems and are helpless with respect to their people. Several pro-U.S. governments in Europe have been toppled. If the people find an opportunity, they will eliminate any trace of the United States’ arrogance that can be seen in Europe.”
Khamenei went on to argue that the U.S. has blown Iran’s nuclear ambitions out of proportion and the government is attempting to convince the world that a nuclear Iran is dangerous only to avert attention from their own “problems.” However, he did make it clear: the United States should be afraid of Iran.
“They are deceitful. What they are and should be afraid of is not a nuclear Iran, but is an Islamic Iran,” Khamenei said, according to a translation by PressTV.
“It is Islamic Iran that has triggered an earthquake that is shaking the pillars of the hegemonistic powers,” he continued. “The Iranian nation has proved that a nation can make true progress without dependence on the United States, without reliance on the self-proclaimed powers.”
Further, during a meeting with journalists and political activists in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad encouraged Muslim nations to work together to boost their independence, according to the Islamic Ahlulbayt News Agency.
“All people form any background or color or region or races are regarded the same in Islam and it is a religion for all mankind,” Ahmadinejad said. ”Iran will resist hegemonic powers’ demands which ask Tehran to halt its ideals in defense of the oppressed nations and groups and in the meantime, their calls for the halt of Tehran’s peaceful nuclear activities,” he added, referring to the U.S. and Israel.
Ahmadinejad explained that his country is ready to join hands with all Muslim countries, including Egypt, to lead the world into “peaceful co-existence,” the news agency reports. Unless you are the U.S. or Israel of course – the great Satan and little Satan respectively.
This is from the leader of the country that just weeks ago sentenced four homosexuals to death by hanging, branding them as enemies of Allah for committing sodomy, according to the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA).
“Iranian and Egyptian nations should work actively and closely to make a more just world and in the meantime, the global sovereignty of monotheism,” he added.
Calling for a united Islamic world against the West certainly hints that what Ahmadinejad is actually referring to is an Islamic caliphate. Talks of the caliphate – one global government ruled by Islam – are becoming more frequent as of lately, particularly now that the effects of the “Arab Spring” are starting to be realized and radical Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are coming to power in the Middle East.
Watch more of PressTV’s coverage of the event, including some of Khamenei’s statements, here:






















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Comments (103)
Windsong
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:25pmHuh. I didn’t realize that Iran was not Islamic. Christianity must have taken hold there when we weren’t looking.
The world doesn’t fear an Islamic Iran because that is what Iran has been for thousands of years. The world fears a nuclear Iran because the leaders and Mullahs prach hatred and openly threaten to destroy other nations. Pretty simple really.
Report Post »twistin
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:58pmIran has been Islamic since the middle of the 7th century, when the Arabs rose up out of the peninsula and invaded Iran. Before that, they were Zoroastrian, and Christian, and Jewish.
It’s not thousands of years, but it’s a long time, all right.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:31pm“ Fall on their heads like lightning” , Those muslims are funny
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:35pm“This is from the leader of the country that just weeks ago sentenced four homosexuals to death by hanging, branding them as enemies of Allah for committing sodomy”
Does this mean Target won’t be selling any T-shirts in Iran?
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:14pmYo, IRAN! Look up lately? Tinfoil turbans ain’t gonna help ya!
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:06pmIf this doesn’t bother you:
“Talks of the caliphate – one global government ruled by Islam – are becoming more frequent as of lately, particularly now that the effects of the “Arab Spring” are starting to be realized and radical Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood are coming to power in the Middle East.”
You deserve what you get.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:07pmWhat bothers me is our corrupt federal government.
Report Post »sizzler2220
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:39pmYep, and the Obamanation continues to embrace these muslims.
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:15pmKeep pushing the devils work Iran and you will find yourselves elevated to very high temperatures in a very short amount of time.
Report Post »invalidusername
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:29pmOkay. Yes and No. I think Iran which was the epicenter of new Islamic Mulha Shira law “caliphates” that started in 1970′s the a. Khomenei -picking up on the depressed and despairing young people – who focused their despair on those who ignored their faith and monkeys and pigs (the USA and Israel) are now a generation past and still poor, MORE oppressed and more angry than before. The insane zealots who spread this hate and re-invented terrorism as we know it – are still strong, witness the lie of the Muslim Brohood (sounds like the Black Panthers) – BUT the despairing are only tricked for so long. I think while Amenijihadist or whatever the whack job secular dictator of Iran is – is probably not “overthrowable” (yet) the spiritual voodoo chief – Khamenei totally is – he is seen by a lot of young as a figurehead who is impotent or worse. Amenjihadist hates him already…so if the caliphate and hoax of Muhllas and Imams builds and I think it is – then you have secular dictators ruling in the name of Islam and that doesn’t take long to show itself for what it is – totalitarian oppressive and insane – and the support then rests only on the fear of the people…who hopefully are finally having enough….but – just to be safe Israel should turn Iran into the largest collect of glass (super heated sand) in the world
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:29pmI have news for all you Iranian POS— Israel’s technolgy is so superior that when it comes, the next thing you’ll see is 72 f-ugly virgins!
Report Post »orlandojon
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:36pmJust a nervous Iran talking trash they can’t back up…nothing new
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:50pmIf a country much larger than you with nuclear weapons was funding terrorist groups and launching illegal cyber attacks against you… wouldn’t you be “nervous” as well?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:57pmJoe — Iran has been a state sponsor of terrorism since 1979. They fund and train Hezbollah which regularly attacks Israel and has attacked the US. The Beirut bombing that stole American lives was an Hezbollah event.
What surprises me is that Iran is still alive and pushing its evil agenda. Had a woman version of Bibi been in charge, Iran would be a smoking, radioactive ruin today. Women have less tolerance for threats to the welfare of their children than men do. However, eventually even men will defend.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:35pmElana
Report Post »Shh. Joe actually just hates jews. Facts, history, and common sense will not dent that mindset.
Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:38pmHezbollah has no presence in South America. Romney just made that up. He has zero evidence for that. Iran is negotiating with several South American countries for trade and economic purposes… but to suggest there are Muslim terrorists being given safe haven in extremely Catholic Spanish speaking countries is BEYOND ridiculous.
As for the casualties we’ve suffered in the Middle East, if we didn’t send troops to the Middle East in the first place, they wouldn’t ahve become casualties.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:50pmLOL — Hezbollah has been in the tri-border regions for over a decade. They have also migrated to northern Mexico. You only have to look at the new kinds of cartel violence to see — beheadings, bombings, etc.
Romney has zero to do w/what the savages are doing south of our border.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:51pmOh, and Joe, one more thing — Iran is building missile bases for Hugo as we write. Google it.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:29pmI don’t get it–everytime I bring up the fact that arabs in the middle east see children as tools of perversion, not precious human beings–my posts get pulled by the Blaze admin. It still makes it true. These people are lost in the 7th. century A.D. And please don’t tell me that they invented science, algebra, etc. BS! That was here long before them. Bottomline—9-11-2001/// We will never forget.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:42pmYou are spot on. While Islam did have a Golden Age when they pulled ahead of Europe when said continent went through the Dark Ages, they have regressed far since then. Where once they preserved the works of ancient Greek philosophers they not reject them. Where once they embraced math and science they are now fundamentalists who only use science to increase their power. And should the day come when they ever rise above this these past centuries will be as much a blight on their history as the pre-Enlightenment years are for European and Western history.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:03pmThat has a lot to do w/global climate change for the colder in Europe, invaders’ pressure fm the East; but the “Dark Ages” really were not all that dark. They were a rearrangement of political affairs in Europe with the failure of the western Roman Empire.
Additionally, the islamic world only “flowers” when it has other civilizations to prey upon. The “classic” islamic art and architecture is fully beholden to Byzantine/Roman art and architecture. The math came fm Indian ideas.
For the islamic world to move forward means they will have to drop the idea of Mohammad as the ideal man and his way as the only way. He is a man locked in the 7th Arabian culture of the central western coast of the Arabian peninsula.
You have a similar problem in the Far East. Until China moves to a more Western mode of thought, it will remain a backward-looking culture as well. They can copy and improve, but they have a really hard time inventing new stuff. Same thing applies to the islamic world.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:25pmHe did speak the truth when he said that America should ALREADY fear “ an Islamic Iran” as much as a nuclear Iran ! The “ Arab Spring ” is a major concern as it has intensified the anti-Western fervor.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:43pmAnd the Liberals put a muslim in the White House. How stupid can freaks get?
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:49pmObama isn’t Muslim… idiot.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:05pmJoe — it’s really hard to tell since his actions are not Christian either. What he professes; he fails to live out. His charity looks islamic (2.5 percent) rather than a 10 percent given by observant Christians and Jews.
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:17pmYES he is MORON
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:40pmJOE. Obama is an adherent of Black Theology and his so-called Church 20 years also dedicated itself to “same gender loving”, lol. This same gender loving Church honored Louis Farrahkan the “Minister of hate” who’s faith is that of “hating same gender loving” among other things as we well know. So as far as I’m concerned, I see Obama as highly confused at best… but certainly not a Christian.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:38pmJOE: why are you Lefties so arrogant ? Why are so so angry ? Why do you hate America so much ?
Report Post »mountainmover101
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:18pmYadda yadda yadda… The Bible clearly states that once Israel is replanted in the land it will NOT be uprooted. Their moon god is not going to do much. It is the moon!!!!! Israel will probably hit Iran first and pretty hard too.
The Bible also clearly states that God, the real one, once His tarriance is concluded, which is more than likely in the not too distant future, will destroy the children of the bondwoman. While Iran is not enumerated among these people, for these to be either removed entirely or disabled significantly does not bode well for Iran. It will no longer have proxy fighters in the area.
According to the Bible, there is enough of Iran left o be involved in the endtime war. The thing to remember for their to be an endtime war, Israel is live and well and apparently militarily strong enough to be a threat.
I believe the Bible and its prophecies for one simple reason. They all come true. The Quran, on the other hand, has had no prophecy at all that has ever come true.
Do the math people.
What is coming is not going to be pretty. It also isn’t what these poeple are saying either. These are a cursed people they live and breathe a curse. They are going to be used as a rod of judgement for Israel, but not in the way they may wish to be used.
One also has to remember after God has used a kingdom as a rod of judgement, He breaks the rod. Remember what happened to Egypt, Assyrian, Babylon, Greece, Rome etc. etc. etc.
Report Post »PROSECUTE_PUBLIC_SERVANTS__FOR_CONSTITUTIONAL_TREASON
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:12pmThe final battle has already been written in the Bible. 5 out of every 6 Iranian and Russian soldiers are killed. The only issue is where is the US? Not mentioned. Maybe the US is nuked out of existence. Maybe the US dollar collapse destroys the US and they are now a lesser power. Anyway Israel has nothing to fear according to God.
Report Post »Ron Staiger
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:08pmI’m sure Israel is quaking in its boots over comments made by some rag-headed islamifacist cultists whose greatest contribution to the world is their own suicide!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:07pmNever ever trust an arab.
Report Post »Even arabs will tell you that.
I lived in the Kingdom – its so hypocritical its makes you want to laugh.
Islam is a big front for the arab thugs.
When the oil runs out they will be back on camels in the desert!
DoomsdayProphet
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:07pmStop talking….DO something? You all haven’t made a breakthrough in anything since pre-Islam…Yep so before 600AD you produced….After it seems all you produce are terrorists and morons.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:06pmWar is soon to come. That is all but inevitable now.
Report Post »Restored One
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:21pmIf so Snow, I must admit that I hope it happens on Obama’s watch. If it starts after Romney wins (God I hope he wins), we may see another socialist/marxist voted in 2016. Frightening times are here for sure.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 10:46pmI think it will be on Obama’s watch. I think Obama is the “last president of the United States.”
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:04pmAmazing how many neo-cons advocate mass murder and genocide.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:31pmJoe, go stick your tongue back in the nostrils of your life size Ron Paul cutout. The grownups are trying to have a conversation here.
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:49pmWhile I find it amusing you think I would ever support Ron Paul, or any of the other drooling idiots being backed by the GOP in this election cycle… I still find the Religious Right’s thirst for mass murder disturbing.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:11pmJoe — it’s not that observant Christians are advocating or soliciting war; it’s that we are resigned to it as part of the apocalyptic passages of the New Testament and promises fm the Old Testament.
Our only joy is when it is over; it is over. Then the Kingdom of God will rule in the place of human rule. God Himself will wipe away the tears and eliminate the causes for the tears.
It’s not wanting war; it’s expecting war that you are seeing.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:36pmJoe
Report Post »Don your burka.
barber2
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:29pm“ neocons ”….I spot one of those Far Left / pseudo Ron Paul folks…one of those “Obama and Romney are the same ” guys who are also running the “ divide and confuse the dumb conservatives ” tactic. This rhetoric is joining the standard Lefty Parroted playbook ….heard alot but just as phony as that ” we are the 99% ” Big Lie. The Democrats’ Nose just grows and grows….
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 9:49pmI would have to say…… all of you NeoCons are wrong on this one. Joe Bonham is pure Obama supporter. There is Paulist there. Good for him! At least he didn’t keep switching canidates as they had breakdowns. Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, Newt, and Tim Pawlenty. Yep most everyone here supported one of them before they ended up with Romney.
Report Post »frogg
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:03pmIt’s time to turn Iran into a parking lot. Nough said!
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:09pmYou would fit well in the Taliban. There is always room for bloodthirsty individuals in any terrorist group!
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 8:41pmExcellent use of the exclamation point Joe. You go Joe. Go Joe. Really, just go Joe.
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 11:35pmAn attack on Iran would kill a whole lot of Jews living there:
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Report Post »“Following the overthrow of the shah and the declaration of an Islamic state in 1979, Iran severed relations with Israel. The country has subsequently supported many of the Islamic terrorist organizations that target Jews and Israelis, particularly the Lebanon-based, Hezbollah. Nevertheless, Iran’s Jewish community is the largest in the Middle East outside Israel.”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/iranjews.html
JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:53pmGo ahead keep slapping the big dog, keep spitting in this water bowl, keep messing with things much bigger than you
P.S you will not hear the big dog bark; you will just feel the teeth
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:56pmInterestingly, your rhetoric could apply equally well to the United States!
How much longer can we keep ******* off a group of over 2 billion people? How many more wars can we start before we screw up and get defeated. And by “defeated” I don’t mean just utterly failing to meet any of our victory conditions (Like in Iraq)… I mean an actual serious military defeat.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:18pmJoe — you obviously do not really understand the islamic system. There is no bargaining w/it for life, liberty, and the pursuit of personal happiness.
Islam is a system that dictates how each person is to live his/her life. It’s systematic all the way down to which hand to wipe your fanny with. If you get out of line w/shariah, you will be dealt with in the harshest of ways. It’s double layered – one set of rules for muslims and one for all others. For instance, should you steal fm a muslim man, your right hand will be cut off. If you steal fm a non-muslim, nothing happens. Non-muslims (aka infidels) are fair game for all manner of harsh treatment, incl what we call murder. It takes two muslim women testimony to equal that of one muslim man. Non-muslims can testify only after torture since they regard us as inherently unreliable.
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:47pmWhen are we going to eliminate these goat herding, devil worshiping, throwback piece’s of sheite and make the world a better place? Oh wait I just remembered, their obama,s buddie’s.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:42pmto ALL MURDERING MUSLUMS hell shall taste your flesh in the end.. YOU n siria will be DEALT WIHT SOON n when that occurs HELL will open uo n swallow you MUSLUMS MURDER PLAIN N SIMPLE FACT N TRUTH
Report Post »NEVER AGGAIN
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:37pmHey sandmaggot, enjoy that missile coming straight back to that return address becuase of that new virus! Glass will be cheap that year.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:46pmOne of these days Iran will finally become something useful. They would make a fantastic future site as a navigational aid to UFOs.
Report Post »AUsername
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:37pmSo Iran is criticizing them and telling them not to attack them, i don’t see anything wrong with that. Neo Cons believe that is good enough reason to bomb them. intolerant bastards. Iran maybe a dick to its own people but not to other nations, they have never done a thing to another country.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:46pmSo all the intel provided, weapons produced, and bomb laden little pilgrims have been on peace jaunts? Hamas has great cookies this year and the colors of the ahab spring are just spectacular- if you like burnt black and crimson. Take some bath salts.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:49pmHow does providing weapons to anyone who seeks to destroy Israel count as “not doing anything to anyone”. Iran has attempted to illegally provide arms to Hamas on more than one occasion. Arming a country‘s enemies and smuggling weapons across said country’s borders….one could almost say that such actions are acts of war.
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:55pmIt must be nice not to know about anything that‘s happened in the last 60 yr’s.
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:03pmTZION:
The American government has been caught providing aid to internationally condemned terrorist groups operating in Iran. We’ve also provided money and weapons to terrorist groups in Iraq, armed vicious drug-dealing militias in Afghanistan (Not even talking about mujahedin in the 80s, we’re doing that even in the present war).
So… what has Iran done that’s worse, or even the equal of the harm the CIA and DoD does on a routine basis?
*Awaits accusations of being a commie, muslim, liberal ***, etc*
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:04pmI do not think INTOLERANT means what you think it means . . .
Intolerance is the hallmark of these thieving, murderous muslims. Their own words make it an open & shut case.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 6:50pm@Joe
Report Post »I don’t support us doing any of that either. I’m not a hypocrite, but even if the CIA has done worse things that doesn’t excuse Iran. If I oppose the current, out of control, over involved US government as well as the radical, unchecked, Islamic regime of Iran then I am consistent in my views. Can you attest to the same?
Fubared
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:19pmJoe
Report Post »Just look at the number of goats and camels that walk funny and look at all males as suspicious. We should nuke em just for Peta’s sake. Who cares if they openly call for the eradication of an entire peeps, we should do it for Peta’s sake. Word yo.
Elena2010
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:22pmAusername – then explain how Iranian arms came to kill Americans in Iraq? Explain how Iranian operatives (Hezbollah) killed over 200 Americans in Beirut and Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers). Explain how Iranian operatives (Hezbollah) are running around readying for attacks on our homeland fm South America? Explain how they are in bed w/the drug cartels, esp Los Zetas.
Iran is well versed in mischief making world wide.
Report Post »Joe Bonham
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 7:36pmTZion -
I agree on both counts. But what Iran does is not any of our business… at all. If Israel wants to start a military quagmire with Iran, they are more than welcome to do so. But we should not be involved.
I’m am deeply worried that Obama will invade Iran to get more votes from the war-monkeys in the upcoming election.
Report Post »NEVER AGGAIN
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Report Post »Uncurable wound
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:35pmKiss my Red,White,and Blue!!!
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 4, 2012 at 5:34pmWhatever, Iran dictators. You all lose in the end; most of us are sick of your empty rhetoric and garbage mouths against Israel or anyone else. Sad to know innocent people in your country can do nothing about it. The moment you throw fire into the sky, consider your story at an end. In other words, you will be history. What a lovely thought. {:
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