He believes in the right wing Christian belief in the rapture and the return of Jesus and believes he is destined to be an instrument of God to bring it about. Big time delusions of grandeur.

No he doesn't.

Don't be stupid.

the antiwar crowd will be demonstrating in the streets in the thousands and thousands.

4/14/06 Agence Fr.-Presse 15:39:00

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April 14, 2006

Iran's leaders launch vitriolic assault on Israel, US

by Farhad Pouladi


TEHRAN, April 14, 2006 (AFP) - Iran's hardline leaders launched a string of vitriolic attacks against the United States and Israel on Friday, voicing "serious doubts" over the Holocaust and predicting the "elimination" of the Jewish state.

The Islamic republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also used a pro-Palestinian conference in Tehran to rally support from Islamic nations for the cash-strapped, Hamas-led Palestinian government.

"The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat," firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the gathering of regime officials, visiting Palestinian militant leaders and foreign sympathisers.

"Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is on the road to being eliminated," said Ahmadinejad, whose regime does not recognise Israel and who drew international condemnation last year when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map".

But unfazed by his critics in Europe and Washington -- who are also piling the pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear drive -- the hardliner went on to repeat his controversial stance on the Holocaust.

"If there is serious doubt over the Holocaust, there is no doubt over the catastrophe and Holocaust being faced by the Palestinians," said the president, who had previously dismissed as a "myth" the killing of an estimated six million Jews by the Nazis and their allies during World War II.

"I tell the governments who support Zionism to ... let the migrants (Jews) return to their countries of origin. If you think you owe them something, give them some of your land," he said.

In his speech, Ayatollah Khamenei accused the United States of conspiring against his country, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon in order to place the entire region under Israeli control.

"The plots by the American government against Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon aimed at governing the Middle East with the control of the Zionist regime will not succeed," Iran's all-pwerful leader said.

"If, by accident, the American government saw reason, it would respect the wish of the Iraqi people to form its government, respect the Palestinian government, free the prisoners of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, cease the conspiracy (and) not create tension in the Persian Gulf region," he said.

The supreme leader also issued a thinly veiled appeal for Muslim countries to help the Hamas-led Palestinian government following a decision by the United States and European Union to suspend aid.

"The Islamic world cannot remain indifferent and silent to tyranny," he asserted.

"Your martyrs are our martyrs. Your pain is our pain," he said of the Palestinians. "Islamic nations have the duty to help you in every possible way, and help you along this blessed path."

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No he doesn't.

Don't be stupid.

I think the Barbarians are revelling in their new found powers now that Rome is starting to show its weakness and over extension.

Revolutions do not occur when people are downtrodden. They occur when there is a sudden shift in power between one class and another leading the power gaining class to devleop delusions of granduer. Sometimes this happens due to rapid advances in technology or great economic shifts. The recent surge in oil prices is doing this to the middle east no doubt.