President Ahmadinejad has warned that the West would feel the consequences of pressing for sanctions against Iran much more than Iran would suffer. What could he have in mind? How could Iran strike at the West?
by Cecil E. Maranville
In the wake of the political tsunami his first Holocaust denial speech created in the West, Iranian President Ahmadinejad backed off from that ludicrous assertion, trading it for another. He told Europe and America that they should create a state within their territory for the Jews of Palestine, since Europe (read, "Nazis") drove the Jews out of its territory.
But Ahmadinejad shortly thereafter returned to his anti-Semitic rhetoric, calling for Israel's destruction, as he spoke to hundreds of thousands (according to state media) on the 27th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah. His hate speech inspired the crowd to chant, "Death to America," "Death to Israel " and "Death to Denmark " (the country in which the infamous cartoons of Muhammad were created).
In the 1980s, Iran's military struggled for eight years against the forces of Saddam Hussein, which the American-led coalition knocked out in a matter of days. What harm could Iran possibly inflict upon the West?
Serious-minded people are alarmed. "The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has passed a resolution noting that Iran's actions, including Ahmadinejad's statements, are early warning signs of genocide" (R. Blum, G. Stanton, E. Richter and I. Charney, "Ahmadinejad—Incitement Deserves Indictment," The Jerusalem Post, Feb. 7, 2006, emphasis added throughout).
More frightening than Hitler
The principle difference between Ahmadinejad and Hitler is that the latter did not have a weapon by which he could exterminate millions of Jews instantly. Ahmadinejad either already has such a weapon (as we discuss below) or soon will have one.
