Is Anyone Calling For Mahmoud to Resign?

This from CNN:

On Friday, Iran's Moscow embassy -- often used by Tehran to issue statements on foreign policy -- said Ahmadinejad did not mean to "speak up in such sharp terms."

The embassy said Ahmadinejad "did not have any intention to speak up in such sharp terms and enter into a conflict."

"It's absolutely clear that, in his remarks, Mr. Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, underlined the key position of Iran, based on the necessity to hold free elections on the occupied territories," Reuters quoted the embassy statement as saying.

Some Iranian officials are also attempting to smooth over tensions caused by Ahmadinejad's comments.

In a Friday prayer speech, the former speaker of the Iranian parliament, Aliakbar Nateq-Noori, said that what Ahmadinejad meant was that free and fair elections should be held in Palestine, with the participation of all Palestinians, including refugees, and that whoever wins the election should take over the government.

But in reality:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has fired Iran's ambassadors to England, France and Germany. He has also ordered 18 envoys recalled to Tehran (there's an order I wouldn't be following anytime soon).

Following from Iran Focus:

“Ahmadinejad has been angered by what he sees as the envoys’ meek reaction to the global condemnation of his Wednesday speech against Israel and the West”, an official, who requested anonymity, said. “He made the speech with the full blessing of the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and has his green light to stifle any dissenting voice within the government”.

The madman Mahmoud marched in the streets of Tehran on Friday alongside tens of thousands of people supporting his call for the destruction of Israel. Does this sound like a man who didn't mean what he said? I don't hear him retracting, explaining or backing off his statement.

And why haven't we hear from our own hemisphere's local lunatic, Hugo Chavez? He was upset because some American clergyman suggested assasination as a way of improving Venezuela's ambience. Well, Hugo your buddy in Iran just called for wiping out an entire country. Why aren't you performing one of your tinhorn dictatorial tirades over that?

Finally, let's see how our own politicians respond. Hillary needs to court that Jewish vote in NYC. I'm waiting to see the moral outrage from our resident clowns in Washington. Will they call for the head of the meshugener Mahmoud?

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