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Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivering a sermon at the Tehran University campus on Friday. (AP)
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Iran's Khamenei says Bush is war criminal comparable to Hitler
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Iran's supreme leader Friday compared U.S. President George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler and predicted that he would eventually be brought to court as a war criminal.

"The day will come that Bush would be brought to a war tribunal for the catastrophe he caused in Iraq. He has to be called to account just like in the case of Hitler and Saddam," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in the Friday prayer ceremony in Tehran.

"[Bush] has to reply to the simple question why a rich country like Iraq has no water, no electricity, no hospitals, no schools... the only thing the U.S. brought into Iraq was terrorism," Khamenei added.

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The Ayatollah said that the U.S. had in the last three decades followed the plan to have full domination of the Middle East with "Israel as its capital," but failed in Iraq, as well as in Iran, Lebanon and the Palestine Territories.

He added that the U.S. used Iraq to stage a war against Iran (1980-1988)with the aim of toppling the Islamic system, but failed.

He said the U.S. staged elections in the Palestine Palestinian Authority, in which Hamas emerged as the winner, and tried to disarm the Hezbollah in Lebanon only to suffer "a humiliating defeat for what was believed to be the undefeatable Israeli army."

Khamenei added that U.S. plans to impose sanctions on Iran due to the continuation of its nuclear programs would "just make the nation stronger than before."
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  1.   Correct 14:04  |  Bill 14/09/07
  2.   And who is going to arrest him? 14:04  |  Mark Lincoln 14/09/07
  3.   I thought Iran claims Hitler didn`t do anything wrong. 14:16  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  4.   What a perverted, self-serving statement. 14:46  |  Clarence Darrow 14/09/07
  5.   No. 3 Amnon 14:52  |  W 14/09/07
  6.   amnon 3 14:55  |  realism 14/09/07
  7.   for"realism" at #6 15:25  |  scanadu 14/09/07
  8.   No, there`s more! 15:29  |  Diane 14/09/07
  9.   Wow 15:41  |  Travis 14/09/07
  10.   Talk about war criminals 15:44  |  Harold 14/09/07
  11.   #1: is there anything you blame on terrorists 15:46  |  Paul Freedman 14/09/07
  12.   #2: you could try Iranian hospitality 15:50  |  Paul Freedman 14/09/07
  13.   #6: sure they did 15:54  |  Paul Freedman 14/09/07
  14.   Amnon #3 16:12  |  Teddy 14/09/07
  15.   No. 2--Mark Lincoln 16:16  |  steve 14/09/07
  16.   What a fabricator 16:37  |  Steve H 14/09/07
  17.   Spiritual leaders or War mongers 16:42  |  Tqreq 14/09/07
  18.   Mr. Khamenei tendig once more his flock of sheep.. 16:58  |  Karl 14/09/07
  19.   Bush does not hang boys in public like Iran 17:05  |  Laila 14/09/07
  20.   # 4 Clarence Darrow? 17:15  |  Lynn 14/09/07
  21.   Terrorism & this year alone 34,000 iraqis dead,36,000 wounded! 17:17  |  lakshmi 14/09/07
  22.   Comparison to Saddam I understand 17:20  |  Chick 14/09/07
  23.   # 1 Bill 17:24  |  Lynn 14/09/07
  24.   To W, #5 - What a tangled web we weave 17:29  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  25.   Amazing illusion 17:36  |  Espart 14/09/07
  26.   For Travis #9 17:42  |  Espart 14/09/07
  27.   To Tareq 17:42  |  Persian Kitty 14/09/07
  28.   Khamenei is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT 17:43  |  Espart 14/09/07
  29.   #11 17:46  |  Bill 14/09/07
  30.   steve - most democrat in the senate are 17:47  |  Mark Lincoln 14/09/07
  31.   #17 17:48  |  Mick 14/09/07
  32.   Matt Lauer in Tehran 17:52  |  Persian Kitty 14/09/07
  33.   #14 Teddy, your sarcasm 18:03  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  34.   #10 Leila 18:05  |  Space 14/09/07
  35.   for lakshmi at#21 18:10  |  scanadu 14/09/07
  36.   Who are we kidding? 18:29  |  Global Citizen 14/09/07
  37.   Lakshmi - You Should Read Laurence Wilkerson`s Comments 18:36  |  Eli 14/09/07
  38.   #7 scanado 18:55  |  Lumax 14/09/07
  39.   Absolute agree with #3!!! 18:56  |  David 14/09/07
  40.   No. 24, Amon 18:58  |  W 14/09/07
  41.   scanadu 7 19:02  |  realism 14/09/07
  42.   # 40, W 19:25  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  43.   time for US & Iran to have it out 19:30  |  ross 14/09/07
  44.   #6- Make A Citizen`s Arrest Then, Mark 19:30  |  Yoram 14/09/07
  45.   stating the obvious... 19:34  |  ravi 14/09/07
  46.   Who cares what those nuts in Iran think? 19:35  |  Mike 14/09/07
  47.   TO Mark Lincoln #30 19:38  |  Persian Kitty 14/09/07
  48.   Dear Teddy and Amnon 20:03  |  Lumax 14/09/07
  49.   Hezbollahi and the future 20:24  |  Parviz 14/09/07
  50.   Don Your Flame-Retardent Vest, Ersatz Cleric. 20:36  |  Solon 14/09/07
  51.   paul freedman 13 21:08  |  realism 14/09/07
  52.   War Criminal 21:24  |  P.J. Casey 14/09/07
  53.   No. 30--Mark Lincoln 21:27  |  steve 14/09/07
  54.   No. 37 21:29  |  steve 14/09/07
  55.   #47 You must like when US interferes in other nations` affairs 21:34  |  scalito 14/09/07
  56.   Another Left-Wing Islamic Nut 21:53  |  JD 14/09/07
  57.   for "realism" at #41 22:00  |  scanadu 14/09/07
  58.   Very True 22:18  |  Mad 14/09/07
  59.   To Scalito 22:21  |  Persian Kitty 14/09/07
  60.   Yoram too risky 22:24  |  Mark Lincoln 14/09/07
  61.   Steve - Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum 22:26  |  Mark Lincoln 14/09/07
  62.   # 57 scanadu 22:52  |  Lumax 14/09/07
  63.   To #48 Lumax, I guess 23:00  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  64.   #26 well since you asked 23:16  |  Travis 14/09/07
  65.   scanadu 57 23:50  |  realism 14/09/07
  66.   To Mad, #58 23:52  |  Amnon 14/09/07
  67.   The shiite entity 01:52  |  17 15/09/07
  68.   Crimes of Islam 03:43  |  Kourosh 15/09/07
  69.   amnon 63 07:08  |  realism 15/09/07
  70.   PAY BACK TIME, BABY 07:56  |  indrajaya 15/09/07
  71.   See full unabridged statement 11:09  |  Ali 15/09/07
  72.   WAke up you assholes 17:23  |  vegan love 15/09/07
  73.   to #9 18:22  |  Jhon 15/09/07
  74.   Response #43 18:22  |  Robert 15/09/07
  75.   Your missing the point though.. 19:22  |  Andrew 15/09/07
  76.   But the Holocause Never Happen Says Iran? So Bush Must Be Ok? 19:40  |  AWWar.com 15/09/07
  77.   Iran does not claim that 20:27  |  Pakiman 15/09/07
  78.   You are drinking the kool-aid 20:31  |  Pakiman 15/09/07
  79.   Iran`s Khamenei`s statement 20:32  |  Anne 15/09/07
  80.   TSK TSK TSK 22:03  |  JOEY GOMBONI 15/09/07
  81.   To Laila 22:08  |  Contrarian 15/09/07
  82.   but I thought there was no holocaust 23:57  |  John Galt 15/09/07
  83.   Forget the Holocaust for a minute and THINK 00:27  |&nbs