GUERRA? MAIS UMA GUERRA?
Continua a falar-se da provável próxima Guerra entre Bush e o Irão.
O presidente da República do Irão, Ahmadinejad,
falou, em Nova Iorque, da tão anunciada guerra do governo de George W Bush contra o Irão, apoiada por Israel.
O Estado de Israel é o país do Médio- Oriente a quem membros da NATO ajudaram a fabricar bombas atómicas, nomeadamente os Estados Unidos e a Inglaterra.
« Ahmadinejad calm over prospect of US attack
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger in New York
Monday September 24, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today appeared to be unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country, dismissing talk of war as a propaganda tool.
Facing widespread protests on the first day of a visit to New York for a United Nations general assembly meeting, he told journalists any country wanting to go to war against Iran would need a good legal reason to do so and such an excuse did not exist.
Iran had not broken any international agreements by developing nuclear power, he said.
He added that the US should have learned the lesson of past mistakes, referring to the invasion of Iraq. He dismissed the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who had raised the prospect of war, as immature.
Protesters gathered at all the locations Mr Ahmadinejad visited yesterday. The Daily News declared "the Evil has Landed", and the New York Post called him the "Madman Iran Prez" and told him to "Go to Hell" if he went anywhere near ground zero, as he had planned.
The centrepiece of his day was a speech at New York's Columbia university. Earlier, he was asked by journalists about the threat of war at the National Press Centre in Washington, in a video-conference call from New York.
He said: "Talk of war is basically a propaganda tool. People who talk about it have to bring a legal reason. Officials who talk about it should be pressured about what to say and what not to say. They should not endanger world security."
US and European diplomats have been privately warning over the last month that the prospect of an air strike against Iran next year has grown.
The US has said it will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Standing outside the UN, Mr Ahmadinejad, in his address to journalists, opened with a 20-minute, at times rambling, statement about God, human development and corruption. But he put into the mix a warning to the US that it could not prevent "the pursuit of science"- Iran's nuclear research - adding: "No one has the right to take this away."
He denied that Iran abused human rights, saying: "People in Iran are very joyous, happy people. They're very free in expressing what they think."
To sceptical laughter from the assembled journalists, he described Iranian women as "the freest in the world".
Asked about US claims at the weekend that Iran is smuggling surface-to-air missiles into Iraq for use against American forces, Mr Ahmadinejad denied it, adding that even if it were true, a few weapons would not make much difference to the US, which was already defeated in Iraq.
"We think the military should seek an answer to its defeat in Iraq elsewhere," he said.
On Broadway, outside Columbia University, clusters of demonstrators and counter-demonstrators vied to win the attention of the press.
"A man like this who's creating tension and creating ill-will, why should be given a forum at one of the oldest universities in America?" asked Albert Marshak, a 78-year-old New Yorker. "Let him go and speak in the streets, or in Madison Square Garden, not here."
A New York fireman said: "He shouldn't be here. He's a terrorist supporter. He's a maniac." Asked if he believed that Mr Ahmadinejad had any responsiblity for the September 11 attacks, the fireman replied: "Anything's possible."
There were as many antiwar protesters as anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators. A communist group had unfurled a big orange banner claiming: "Ahmadinejad is bad. Bush is worse. Humanity needs another way. No war on Iran."
"This is a very dangerous situation," said Joan Hirsch, the group's spokeswoman. "People have a responsibility to speak out on the crimes committed in our names." »
(In «The Guardian»)
O presidente da República do Irão, Ahmadinejad,
falou, em Nova Iorque, da tão anunciada guerra do governo de George W Bush contra o Irão, apoiada por Israel.
O Estado de Israel é o país do Médio- Oriente a quem membros da NATO ajudaram a fabricar bombas atómicas, nomeadamente os Estados Unidos e a Inglaterra.
« Ahmadinejad calm over prospect of US attack
Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Julian Borger in New York
Monday September 24, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, today appeared to be unworried about the prospect of a US or Israeli air strike on his country, dismissing talk of war as a propaganda tool.
Facing widespread protests on the first day of a visit to New York for a United Nations general assembly meeting, he told journalists any country wanting to go to war against Iran would need a good legal reason to do so and such an excuse did not exist.
Iran had not broken any international agreements by developing nuclear power, he said.
He added that the US should have learned the lesson of past mistakes, referring to the invasion of Iraq. He dismissed the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who had raised the prospect of war, as immature.
Protesters gathered at all the locations Mr Ahmadinejad visited yesterday. The Daily News declared "the Evil has Landed", and the New York Post called him the "Madman Iran Prez" and told him to "Go to Hell" if he went anywhere near ground zero, as he had planned.
The centrepiece of his day was a speech at New York's Columbia university. Earlier, he was asked by journalists about the threat of war at the National Press Centre in Washington, in a video-conference call from New York.
He said: "Talk of war is basically a propaganda tool. People who talk about it have to bring a legal reason. Officials who talk about it should be pressured about what to say and what not to say. They should not endanger world security."
US and European diplomats have been privately warning over the last month that the prospect of an air strike against Iran next year has grown.
The US has said it will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Standing outside the UN, Mr Ahmadinejad, in his address to journalists, opened with a 20-minute, at times rambling, statement about God, human development and corruption. But he put into the mix a warning to the US that it could not prevent "the pursuit of science"- Iran's nuclear research - adding: "No one has the right to take this away."
He denied that Iran abused human rights, saying: "People in Iran are very joyous, happy people. They're very free in expressing what they think."
To sceptical laughter from the assembled journalists, he described Iranian women as "the freest in the world".
Asked about US claims at the weekend that Iran is smuggling surface-to-air missiles into Iraq for use against American forces, Mr Ahmadinejad denied it, adding that even if it were true, a few weapons would not make much difference to the US, which was already defeated in Iraq.
"We think the military should seek an answer to its defeat in Iraq elsewhere," he said.
On Broadway, outside Columbia University, clusters of demonstrators and counter-demonstrators vied to win the attention of the press.
"A man like this who's creating tension and creating ill-will, why should be given a forum at one of the oldest universities in America?" asked Albert Marshak, a 78-year-old New Yorker. "Let him go and speak in the streets, or in Madison Square Garden, not here."
A New York fireman said: "He shouldn't be here. He's a terrorist supporter. He's a maniac." Asked if he believed that Mr Ahmadinejad had any responsiblity for the September 11 attacks, the fireman replied: "Anything's possible."
There were as many antiwar protesters as anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrators. A communist group had unfurled a big orange banner claiming: "Ahmadinejad is bad. Bush is worse. Humanity needs another way. No war on Iran."
"This is a very dangerous situation," said Joan Hirsch, the group's spokeswoman. "People have a responsibility to speak out on the crimes committed in our names." »
(In «The Guardian»)
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