Khamenei Says Missiles, Not Just Talks, Key To Iran's Future
Source: Reuters
Iran's top leader on Wednesday said missiles were key to the Islamic Republic's future, offering support to the hardline Revolutionary Guards that have drawn criticism from the West for testing ballistic missiles.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supported last year's nuclear deal with world powers but has since called for Iran to avoid further rapprochement with the United States and its allies, and maintain its economic and military strength.
"Those who say the future is in negotiations, not in missiles, are either ignorant or traitors," Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state, was quoted as saying by his website.
"If the Islamic Republic seeks negotiations but has no defensive power, it would have to back down against threats from any weak country."
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-missiles-khamenei-idUSKCN0WW0PT
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MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)doing/done to its neighbors?
I don't blame them one bit at all...
mainer
(12,022 posts)Laid waste by the US.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)for Pearl Harbor?
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Jeeeezzuzz, give me friggin' break.
Only a P.O.S. would interpret that I'm "STILL hating on the Japanese.."
What gives YOU the right to make such STUPID remarks?
Oh, right.. I forgot...
vkkv
(3,384 posts)other DU members for completely senseless reasons, that should be OUT OF HERE. Pronto!
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leftynyc
5. Are you still hating on the Japanese
for Pearl Harbor?
7962
(11,841 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)reported his out-right lie of a post.
I guess you didn't actually take the time to look over our exchange?
How do you or LftyNYC know that I'm not Japanese or Iranian or that I just happen to be MARRIED to a Japanese woman?
Nice going, pal. Lighten up, 7962
Throd
(7,208 posts)You seem thin skinned and quick to take offense.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)ignored... Speaking of that, I should have put LeftyNYC on Full Ignore a LONG time ago.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)I couldn't possibly care less. Why do people think it's some kind of threat to put people ignore and feel the need to announce it? Just do it.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Asking you if over 50 years is enough to get over something when 2 generations have passed and the people responsible are most likely old or dead? I think you may be a wee bit too sensitive and I'm not going anywhere.
Archae
(46,337 posts)Or close to it.
killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)With Iran, in particular, during the 80's we supported both sides of the Iran/Iraq war. Simply to try and get both sides to kill each other. And our ally, Israel, have been assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists in recent years. It was only when Obama pursued nuclear negotiations that we asked them to stop.
There are numerous instances of the US using subterfuge to take down people or governments that don't fall in line with our demands, or have the audacity to implement policies that we don't like, regardless of any blowback we create.
