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Ahmadinejad: Israel will be uprooted if it attacks Lebanon in coming summer
By The Associated Press

TEHRAN - Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Israel on Thursday that it would be uprooted if it attacked Lebanon in the coming summer.

"If you think that by bombing and assassinating Palestinian leaders you are preparing ground for new attacks on Lebanon in the summer, I am telling you that you are seriously wrong," Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the city of Isfahan.

"If this year you repeat the same mistake of the last year, the ocean of nations of the region will get angry and will cut root of the Zionist regime from its stem," added Ahmadinejad, speaking live on state television.
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Referring to the history of Israel, Ahmadinejad said that "60 years of invasion and assassination is enough. If you do not cease invasion and massacre, soon the hand of power of the nations of the region will rub you criminals with earth.

"They think it is still time of some 60 years ago and the Palestinian nation is asleep," said Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad's comments came as Israel Defense Forces troops arrested more than 30 senior Hamas members in the West Bank early Thursday, including a minister, legislators and mayors, as part of ongoing efforts to stem Qassam rocket fire on southern Israel.

The Iranian president was also refering to last summer's 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, sparked by the abduction of two IDF soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Ahmadinejad is well known for his verbal attacks on Israel. In October 2005, he caused outrage in the West when he said in a speech that Israel should be wiped off the map.

His supporters and some independent analysts have since argued Ahmadinejad's words were mistranslated from Farsi and should have been better translated as vanish from the pages of time - implying Israel would vanish on its own rather be destroyed.

The Iranian hardliner appears to be stepping up his confrontational tone in recent days - at a time when Tehran faces renewed pressure by the UN Security Council over its controversial uranium enrichment and just days before first direct Iran-U.S. talks on Iraq security issues on Monday in Baghdad
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  1.   GOOD REMARKS 19:26  |  Imad 24/05/07
  2.   Ah-MAD-dine Keep your hands off Lebanon 19:28  |  Tarek 24/05/07
  3.   What a JOKE!! 19:36  |  Moshe 24/05/07
  4.   A-MAD-MAN-JIHAD TALKS JUST LIKE SADDAM DID BEFORE GULF WAR. 19:36  |  Ben 24/05/07
  5.   Ahmadinejad 19:38  |  Jack 24/05/07
  6.   A Solid Foundation. 19:46  |  Solomon 24/05/07
  7.   in the coming summer 19:54  |  Shmuelshachor 24/05/07
  8.   funny 19:59  |  laughter 24/05/07
  9.   "Good remarks" 20:00  |  Peace 24/05/07
  10.   ahmamandad the little turd 20:03  |  don 24/05/07
  11.   Tarek 20:11  |  Danite 24/05/07
  12.   Support a massive Jewish emigration to Alaska NOW! 20:14  |  Petro 24/05/07
  13.   ha ha 20:15  |  Nellie 24/05/07
  14.   And How will you do that ahmejihad ??? 20:21  |  jack tanous 24/05/07
  15.   Jack #5 20:24  |  Neal 24/05/07
  16.   Tosefta&Co would hurry to assure he didn`t say it 20:24  |  Absolute Sweden 24/05/07
  17.   Well said Tarek 20:25  |  Marco 24/05/07
  18.   Ahmadinejad`s remarks. 20:31  |  David Nigel Braham 24/05/07
  19.   soon he will be sharing 20:34  |  Isac 24/05/07
  20.   Again with this babbling? 20:35  |  Jon 24/05/07
  21.   Laughter- You are not from the middle east 20:38  |  MiD 24/05/07
  22.   Ahmadinejad and his threats 20:39  |  Emi 24/05/07
  23.   Iran`s threat necessitates FULL Attention 20:40  |  Brod 24/05/07
  24.   Ahmadinejad has a tuchus for a head 20:41  |  Michael Korn 24/05/07
  25.   Sabor rattling 20:44  |  Pablo B 24/05/07
  26.   #2| @Tarek: "Don`t want you 2 fight Israel until last Lebanese" 20:44  |  Citizen 24/05/07
  27.   It is simple then 20:53  |  Chris Linthwaite 24/05/07
  28.   Call a Spade a Spade 20:54  |  Lisa 24/05/07
  29.   #10 -- Alaska 20:57  |  Nellie 24/05/07
  30.   Ahmadinejad regime will be uprooted 20:57  |  Democrat 24/05/07
  31.   11: another anti-Semite heard from 20:57  |  Paul Freedman 24/05/07
  32.   to the professional Islamofacists on #1.#2 and #13 21:10  |  Shmuelshachor 24/05/07
  33.   That sound... 21:11  |  ElCuLiAo 24/05/07
  34.   Is it Iranian Opium, Eh ahmJihad 21:19  |  jack tanous 24/05/07
  35.   Ahmadinejad 21:27  |  Avi Yerushalmi 24/05/07
  36.   its funny! 21:37  |  Igor D. 24/05/07
  37.   #13 Petro 21:37  |  Muhammud al-Swain 24/05/07
  38.   Ahmadinejad 21:55  |  Jen 24/05/07
  39.   Ahmadinejad will have the same fate as Saddam; cowering in a hole 22:00  |  David 24/05/07
  40.   PETRO & ALASKA 22:02  |  Comonsense 24/05/07
  41.   AhMADinejunk - talk is cheap! 22:04  |  Mike 24/05/07
  42.   The Iranian terrorist regime will soon disappear! 22:08  |  David 24/05/07
  43.   Who takes the nut seriously? 22:17  |  T A Sheppard 24/05/07
  44.   Uprooted 22:20  |  P. J. Casey 24/05/07
  45.   Let`s Get It Over With 22:22  |  Dave Levy 24/05/07
  46.   to mid 23 22:27  |  laughter 24/05/07
  47.   1,2,3,4... how many USS ships are in the gulf these days? :) 22:32  |  Psychiatrist 24/05/07
  48.   I don`t get it 22:42  |  mb 24/05/07
  49.   @ 27 Muhammud, nothing could have... 22:44  |  Karl 24/05/07
  50.   Ahmadinejad, look around 22:45  |  Time out? 24/05/07
  51.   Arabs are so weak,they depend on Iranians 22:47  |  Yosef 24/05/07
  52.   the junkie has spoken 22:53  |  Realistic 24/05/07
  53.   legitimite resistence 22:55  |  bishop 24/05/07
  54.   Ahmadinejad is changing terminology: insted of "wiping off" he 23:19  |  Vittorio 24/05/07
  55.   Roots or Stem? 23:27  |  Omer 24/05/07
  56.   Tarek right on 23:28  |  Michael Korn 24/05/07
  57.   Ahmedinijad of Iran 23:53  |  Frank 24/05/07
  58.   Achmeddingdong says... 00:22  |  hAPPY jEW 25/05/07
  59.   To 26 00:24  |  DACOSTA 25/05/07
  60.   KIND OF POETIC 00:28  |  Alan 25/05/07
  61.   Ahmadinejad and his uprooting strategy 00:30  |  Brod 25/05/07
  62.   This new Hitler must be dealt with promptly 00:36  |  Chaim 25/05/07
  63.   This Madman Is At Trouble At Home 00:47  |  Yosemite 25/05/07
  64.   Petro IS Ahmadinejad 00:47  |  Joseph 25/05/07
  65.   #12 Petro - I`ve only one comment to make 01:06  |  * BEN JABO 25/05/07
  66.   #2 Tarek 01:09  |  * BEN JABO 25/05/07
  67.   #25 Pablo B 01:12  |  * BEN JABO 25/05/07
  68.   #43 Who takes him seriously? We all should 01:15  |  * BEN JABO 25/05/07
  69.   #55 Omer 01:17  |  * BEN JABO 25/05/07
  70.   He sounds like some of the screwballs on this talkback. 01:19  |  Searcher 25/05/07
  71.   "vanish from the pages of time " 01:27  |  J.Sheremia 25/05/07
  72.   Israel should... 01:33  |  Francisco Baptista 25/05/07
  73.   To Bishop 53 01:57  |  ABRAVANEL 25/05/07
  74.   #3. very well put