Mottaki Calls for Muslims to 'Erase' Israel

Iran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, who, like Barack Obama, says Americans want change, today called for some change in the Middle East. Specifically, the elimination of Israel.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki called on the world's Muslims today to work to "erase" Israel, in the latest verbal attack by Tehran against the Jewish state.

"As the Imam Khomeini said, if each Muslim throws a bucket of water on Israel, Israel will be erased," Mottaki told a conference in Tehran, recalling a saying by Iran's late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sparked international outrage for his repeated attacks against Israel, which he has predicted is doomed to disappear and described as a "stinking corpse" and a "dead rat".

His most notorious attack was in 2005 when he repeated another saying from Khomeini calling for Israel to be "wiped from the map".

Mottaki added: "More than ever, the Zionist regime is disintegrating from within. Today, the Islamic resistance in this region has shattered the regime's legend of invincibility."

While Ahmadinejad and top military commanders regularly predict the demise of Israel, such virulent attacks from the foreign ministry are relatively unusual.

Relatively unusual? What, like only every other day?

The Wizard of Uhhhs was unavailable for comment.

Savage Animal Calls Israel Savage Animal

The hairy munchkin has a serious case of projection.

PRESIDENT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called Israel a "dirty microbe" and "savage animal", as Iran stepped up its rhetoric against the Jewish state after the murder of a top Hezbollah commander.

"World powers have created a black and dirty microbe named the Zionist regime and have unleashed it like a savage animal on the nations of the region," President Ahmadinejad told a rally in the southern city of Bandar Abbas broadcast on state television.

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohammad Ali Jafari, on Monday had predicted Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah would destroy Israel in the near future.

President Ahmadinenjad's latest tirade came a week after the murder in a car bombing in Damascus of Imad Mughnieh, a top Hezbollah commander hailed by Iran as a great martyr who was killed by Israel.

Israel has denied any involvement in his murder although it welcomed the death of Mughnieh, who was on America's most wanted list for a string of anti-Israeli and anti-Western attacks.

The head of US intelligence Mike McConnell has suggested that elements within Hezbollah and Syria could have been responsible.

In a sign of Iran's respect for Mughnieh, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki attended his funeral in the Shiite suburbs of Beirut last week and gave a speech.

"They (Israel) assassinate pure and pious people and then they celebrate it, like what happened to the son of Lebanon who had stood against the savage onslaught of the Zionists and broke the Zionists' horns," said President Ahmadinejad.

As if the Iranians never celebrated death themselves.

This little punk Ahmadinejad may want to look to his boy the chinless ophthalmologist, since the killing took place in Syria.

Hezbos Blame Israel for Moughniyah Slaying, Arrest Palestinians

These clowns need to get their talking points straight. If you're going to pin the blame on the Israelis, rounding up some Palestinians for whacking this guy is going to be a tough sell.

In the meantime, the fanatical killers have appointed an unnamed successor to the mutant Imad Moughniyah, who reportedly was in such rough shape the 72 virgins took a pass on Valentine's Day.

Lebanon's Hezbollah has appointed a successor to its senior guerrilla commander Imad Moughniyah who was assassinated in Syria this week, a Lebanese security source said on Friday.

The source said the appointment was made hours after the announcement of Moughniyah's death in a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday. He did not identify the successor who would now command Hezbollah's formidable and well-armed guerrilla army.

A joint investigation into the bombing by Syrians, Iranians and Hezbollah was well under way and suspects had been arrested in the Syrian capital, the source said.

Hezbollah and its main backer Iran have accused Israel of killing Moughniyah, who was among the United States' most wanted men. The Israeli government has denied any links, though its Mossad spy service had been hunting him for two decades.

"A successor to Imad Moughniyah has been appointed, which is natural," said the source, who requested anonymity. "That's how Hezbollah works, they move quickly to choose successors of fallen leaders."

So if it was the Israelis, why are they rounding up Palestinians residing in Syria?

The suspects arrested were mostly Palestinians residing in Syria, the Lebanese source said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki agreed with Syrian officials during a visit to Damascus on Thursday to set up a joint team to investigate the killing, Mottaki's deputy Alireza Sheik-Attar said on Friday.

The Syrians claim they will present irrefutable proof the Israelis are behind this.

Sure.

SYRIA would soon present "irrefutable" proof of who was behind the assassination of the Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah, the Foreign Minister, Walid al-Moualem, said, hinting that Israel was responsible.

"As a state, we will irrefutably prove the party involved in this crime and who stands behind it. An investigation is ongoing," he said on Thursday.

"We hope that you will soon hear the results of this mighty effort," Mr Moualem said after meeting his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki. Mr Mottaki came from Beirut, where he had attended Mughniyah's funeral.

Asked if Tuesday's killing, in a district of the Syrian capital swarming with security, would undermine chances for peace with Israel, Mr Moualem said the assassination killed "any effort to revive the peace process".

"Whoever wants peace does not commit terrorism, whoever wants peace does not lay siege to Gaza with a million-and-half Palestinians struggling for the minimum to survive," he said.

Update: I considered this when it first occurred, and how funny would it be if true: Mughniyeh: Killed in a Work Accident?