Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz warned the people of Iran on Saturday that their president would bring disaster and suffering upon them if he continued to call for the destruction of the Jewish state.

I think it's a safe bet that if he forces Israel's hand, Ahmadinehitler will bring disaster and suffering to far more than just the Iranians.

The State Department, reacting negatively to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's meeting in Damascus with leaders of two militant Palestinian groups, said Friday neither Iran nor Syria can proclaim themselves champions of the Palestinian people.

The claims are "clearly bankrupt and hollow," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, citing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as calling for foreign governments to stop their support for Palestinian rejectionist groups.

In fact, McCormack said, Abbas has called for Damascus to close down the headquarters of these groups, including Islamic Jihad.

"This is one more example of the Iranian regime being out of step with the trends in the region," McCormack said.

"The very words of the Palestinian leader prove that the stated claims of the Iranians and Syrians as championing the Palestinian people are clearly bankrupt and hollow." McCormack said.

US: Iran misrepresents the Palestinians

Mofaz addressed the Iranian people saying: "Ahmedinejad, his hallucinatory statements, his criminal actions and his extreme views will bring disaster upon you. Do what you understand needs to be done in order to prevent this."

Is there anything possible for Iranians that they didn't try to do? Haven't we had enough students' uprising, demonstrations, workers' strike, outlawed cities, executions and death by stoning or torture in Iran for the last 25 years.

Recently many Iranian opposition groups from a very broad range inside and outside Iran wrote a letter to UN and asked for a 'national referendum' in Iran under the supervision of 'international community'. The idea is that if Iranians can vote freely and mullahs can't rig the election, it's very obvious that 90% of Iranians will vote to a secular form of government and the story of Mullahs is over. What happened to that request and why it didn't make it to UNSC?

Many countries just don't want middle east to succeed. France has no interest in a stable Iraq. UK and Germany have no interest in a 'democratic' Iran or a peaceful Israel.

How do you think the Ayatollahs get their financial support? The Oil! And Who buys this oil? Which European companies are extracting gold from Iranian mines? It's all public information. Just call EU public relations in Brussels. And while bigel is prophesying a total destruction, these guys are running countless businesses with mullahs in billions and billion of $ which goes to swiss and canadian banks to be used for giving away to Syria and Hezbollah. And that, will render Mr. Mofaz's warnings to Iranian people as redundant.

Now, let's imagine Iranian people didn't do their best to defeat mullahs, then there is no reason to believe it would be possible one day with this present situation. So this is a good reason to stop hoping Iranians will one day solve their internal problems and start helping them shake the society in order to get something out of it, hopefully.


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Israeli panelists, including politicians and military experts, sounded alarmist views on Iran's growing nuclear stature and expertise, and said military action to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb is a viable option. Their European counterparts, however, generally expressed less concern, preferring the diplomatic track and opining that an attack on Iran would likely not be effective.

"We are just at the beginning of a long confrontation and we must keep our heads cool," said Phillipe Errera, the deputy director for the French Foreign Ministry's center for analysis and prevision. The path of "defeatist" attitudes, he said, was causing people to look at the Iran situation in the extremes - either accepting the pariah country as a nuclear force or rushing to a military solution.

"We have moved a good way forward since 2003," Errera said. "Multilateralism may be maddening and slow but it is indispensable."

Sir Michael Quinlan, a consulting senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, went a step further, saying that even if Iran went nuclear, attacking it would not be the correct move. A military option would not prove sustainable in the long-run, he said, adding that the prospect of "Iran using a nuclear bomb on Israel is absurd. Although, I can say that sitting safely in the UK."