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Report: Top Iran cleric slams Ahmadinejad's 'coarse' attacks on Israel
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Tags: Israel, Iran 

A top Iranian cleric on Wednesday criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his ongoing "coarse" verbal assaults against Israel, the AFP news agency reported.

"Does foreign policy mean expressing coarse slogans and grandstanding?" Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator who still holds influential posts, asked in a speech to a foreign policy conference in Tehran.

According to the report, Rowhani said Iran "needs to find an accommodating way to decrease the threats and assure the interests of the country."
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"If the international community thinks that a country wants to play troublemaker and eliminate others, it will not let the country do this and will confront it."

Rowhani headed the relatively moderate nuclear negotiating team that served under former president Mohammad Khatami before Ahmadinejad took power in 2005.

He is still a memberof the elite clerical body the Assembly of Experts, and is a representative of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Iran's national security council.

Rowhani is considered a top lieutenant of Iran's pragmatic 1989-1997 president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was crushed by Ahmadinejad in the 2005 presidential elections.

Rowhani's comments came a week after the latest verbal attack on Israel by Ahmadinejad, who described the Israel as a "dirty germ" and "savage animal."
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  1.   I wonder how long he`ll be allowed to talk 15:48  |  Yonatan 27/02/08
  2.   What can I say...? 16:42  |  Daniel 27/02/08
  3.   Difference of tactics, not strategy 16:49  |  Niv 27/02/08
  4.   First hand experience in Persia: positive 17:09  |  Martijn Cohen 27/02/08
  5.   Moderate, pragmatic 17:13  |  skeptic 27/02/08
  6.   He is not all that bad 17:32  |  Indrajaya 27/02/08
  7.   No to Iran`s nuclear program. 17:37  |  Jean Van Daem 27/02/08
  8.   interesting comment 17:55  |  newageblues 27/02/08
  9.   #1 Yonatan 17:57  |  Eitan 27/02/08
  10.   #4 you miss the point 18:10  |  McQueen 27/02/08
  11.   #6 Did Ahmadinejad send you a private letter? 18:11  |  McQueen 27/02/08
  12.   Most people in Iran........... 18:24  |  Deborah 27/02/08
  13.   He is still a memberof the elite clerical body 18:30  |  ziggurat 27/02/08
  14.   good cop bad cop 18:34  |  frenz 27/02/08
  15.   more experience with Iranians 18:36  |  zvi 27/02/08
  16.   reply to #12.."most people 19:29  |  Glenn Harbison 27/02/08
  17.   6Indraya Indonesia will be liberated and unified with China 19:46  |  I 27/02/08
  18.   Gotta love Indra 19:51  |  Jeroen de Jager 27/02/08
  19.   Indrajaya - He is the worst kind but at least I know 19:56  |  cv 27/02/08
  20.   Does AIPAC know Iran? 20:02  |  Iranian-American 27/02/08
  21.   #6 Indra: If you like Ahmadinejad so much, tak him to Indonesia 20:03  |  Vittorio 27/02/08
  22.   indrajaya 20:05  |  Michael 27/02/08
  23.   Indrajaya #6, on ahmadinejads intentions 20:17  |  Johnny 27/02/08
  24.   Amadhinejad should avoid Damascus... 20:18  |  Tom 27/02/08
  25.   Dear Ubdrahaya 20:22  |  Joseph 27/02/08
  26.   Election season begins in Iran 20:27  |  Pablo B 27/02/08
  27.   Jakarta Dumkoff 20:36  |  mea 27/02/08
  28.   Khamenei is in control and has recently said 21:14  |  Avi 27/02/08
  29.   #6 Derserving 21:17  |  Henryk 27/02/08
  30.   Islam is not conducive to the pursuit of rational inquiry 21:49  |  Genuine Tosefta 27/02/08
  31.   #28. Avi, please spend some time and... 22:33  |  Persian CAT 27/02/08
  32.   #3. Iran is neither willing nor able to... 22:43  |  Persian CAT 27/02/08
  33.   His days are probably numbered 00:06  |  judith 28/02/08
  34.   Indy, here`s the issue 00:23  |  The Seer 28/02/08
  35.   to PERSIAN CAT 00:26  |  Marco Antonio 28/02/08
  36.   Pure P.R. Spin. 00:46  |  Stephen. 28/02/08
  37.   One reasonable man who gets the consequences of Iran?s pursuits 00:51  |  Dan 28/02/08
  38.   Mullah Show 03:17  |  Yuri 28/02/08
  39.   Ahmadinejad Is A Bad Person 07:11  |  Yosemite 28/02/08
  40.   Are there elections coming up in Iran? 07:41  |  Johnboy 28/02/08
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