Iran Condemns Clinton For "Obliterate" Comments

UNITED NATIONS — Iran strongly condemned presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton late Wednesday for threatening to attack and "totally obliterate" the country if it uses nuclear weapons.

Iran's deputy U.N. ambassador, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, called an April 22 statement on ABC by the New York senator, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, "provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible" and "a flagrant violation" of the U.N. Charter.

Clinton was asked by ABC News' Chris Cuomo in an interview that aired on "Good Morning America" what she would do if she wins the White House and Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, according to the ABC News Web site.

"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said. "In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."

Danesh-Yazdi's letter used a partial quote that did not mention an attack on Israel. It said Clinton "unwarrantedly and under erroneous and false pretexts threatened to use force against the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The Iranians sent the letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and asked that he circulate it to the Security Council.

The council has imposed three rounds of gradually tougher sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. Iran insists it is enriching uranium to produce nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, but the U.S., key European nations and other countries suspect Tehran's real motive is to eventually produce nuclear weapons.

In the letter, Danesh-Yazdi said "Iran is a leading nation in rejecting and opposing all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons." He added that Iran has repeatedly declared "that nuclear weapons as the most lethal and inhumane weapons have no place in the defense doctrine of the country."

Iran has also campaigned to make the Middle East a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone since 1974, he said.

"Moreover, I wish to reiterate my government's position that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no intention to attack any other nations," Danesh-Yazdi said. "Nonetheless ... Iran would not hesitate to act in self-defense to respond to any attack against the Iranian nation and to take appropriate defensive measures to protect itself" as authorized under the U.N. Charter.

Comments

[Honza]

Hejzuss, Hillery made a big blunder, my guess is Iran would never commit suicide, using a Nuke on any neighbor, this squirt runing his mouth off against Israilis don't hold all the cards, theres the bearded guru who runs the show. But then the Bush, Cheney, Mccain yahoos may make good on her mouthing off before the year is up.

[dr4Will]

must to hit it head on for all the camel jockeys to get so excited!!

[LeftLeanWing]

Iran ( Persia ) has not attacked another country in centuries.

Why would we need to obliterate Iran when Israel is more than capable of doing it themselves; if they are attacked or not ?

Their most vulnerable spot is their outdated oil refineries; which is hardly capable of providing enough gasoline for its own citizens. So we wouldn't have to obliterate anything to bring them to their knees.

[AC500]

The country does not need two more loose cannons in the White House. Bill threw Blacks under the bus and Hillary vows to annihilate Iran. This kind of grandstanding and bluster is exactly what the country DOES NOT need. More over the top divisiveness. On the other hand, Obama has displayed nothing but calm, cool headed, thoughtful, honest, even-handed, sincere, broadminded and, tough, when called for, responses to the controversies he's been caught up in in the media. He will make a great President, one that will restore the country's reputation in the world, and will champion peace through diplomacy, and yet has proven he's tough enough to make hard decisions when called for. What are we waiting for? Let's get behind him and move on to McCain.

[undecidee]

I guess McCain and Clinton are basically a pair of identical shoes. One left and one right. Both is trigger happy.

This is a scary country to be in at the moment because it seems that if you have kids who are in their teens now, they might be drafted into a war in the next few years if either of these 2 goons get in the WH.

[CitizenKane16]

You are very generous with those "next few years". It's looking more and more as if it will happen sooner. Why is there a second USAF carrier now stationed in the Persian Gulf?? These are very scary times indeed.

[rollingdivision]

This is a non-issue. Since Iran is not and does not have any plans to develop nuclear weapons. To discuss this any further is equivalent to supporting the lie that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.

[BatedBreath]

Don't forget, her advisor on China quit her campaign because she was mouthing off about boycotting the Olympics. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9719.html This woman is toxic.

[BatedBreath]

I'm sure she's added this to her resume.

[JoeBlough]

I still think we should turn over the "Iran problem" to another super power to deal with. I hear China and India are up and comers. They probably would have fresh ideas. Lord knows the old people we have in Congress have run out of ideas.

[Caldonia]

Hillary's threat to 'obliterate Iran' smacks of the Bush's march to war in Iraq which she supported. She justified her support based on the availability of information to the contrary, even though the National Intelligence Report was avallable and raised questions about the assumptions being used to carry out a pre-emptive strike against Iraq.

She voted in Congress to attack the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and in the past month, has proposed a preemptive strike against Iran. The goal of the strike would be to 'obliterate' the 65 million Iranians, men, women and children.

For the past 8 years we have watched the tally of 4,000 american dead, of tens of thousands wounded,12,000 american G.I. suicides per year of the Iraq War, of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead,of millions of Iraqi men, women and children displaced continue to increase. Repayment of the debt threatens to put allocations for education,, health care, jobs, infrastruc­ture--reme­mber the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota last year--ALL on the back burner.

If the american electorate has not learned to recognize political demogogy, has not learned to separate spin from substance, does not recognize that Clinton's foreign policy platform is the Bush wine in new bottles, then it will vote for the warrior queen with 'testicular' power. And, after being kicked by Bush( "shame on him and hanging chards" ) if either Hillary or McCain wins, it will be shame on us.

[BlueSkye]

I guess Newt's mama was right about Hillary, after all.

[unclechris]

when you all figure out that barak can't win in the general election,
it'll be too late
thanks a lot huffington post for president mccain

[RedKnuckles]

I think Hillary should should both promise to both obliterate *and* anihilate Iran.

She's trying to out-warmonger McCain and appeal to Joe- Sixpack voters.

[BatedBreath]

You forgot renounce and denounce.

[cls105]

as long as she obliterates while wearing a flag pin, its ok.

[LeftLeanWing]

and a Stars-N-Stripes girdle and bra ensemble.

[undecidee]

And a crown on her head, a torch in one hand and a book in the other. Welcome to the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. :-)

[lvdragonlady]

I was wondering when Iran was going to say something about her remarks. But I have a question, of anyone out there....Where did she come up with "In the next 10 years"??? If elected she could only be around for 8???

[democratICnpround]

Another trait of Obamaphiles; YOU don't read well and certainly don't comprehend what you read.
HRC did NOT say WOULD obliterate Iran but rather we WOULD BE ABLE to if they attacked Israel with nuclear weapons. You know, taking a position of strength...Oh wait, maybe you DON'T recognize diplomacy through strength.

[MTGradwell]

"... HRC did NOT say WOULD obliterate Iran ...". Yeah. And a man who says "wouldn't it be a real shame if your business got trashed" isn't threatening to trash your business, just making a general observation.

Note that HRC isn't saying "If the Iranians attack Israel..". She's talking about what would happen if THEY FOOLISHLY CONSIDER attacking Israel. In other words, if it looks like they might be about to. It's that preemptive thing all over again.

[democratICnpround]

MTGradwell,
Concept: Paragraphs - like in READ THE PRECEEDING paragraph which actually HAS the question HRC responded to "Clinton was asked by ABC News' Chris Cuomo in an interview that aired on "Good Morning America" what she would do if she wins the White House and Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, according to the ABC News Web site."
You Obamaphiles are REALLY starting to scare those of us believe in the truth.

Just for the record, I for one will be able to separate Obama from you fools and vote for him if he is our nominee but you sure make that a chore........

[RedKnuckles]

Look pal, we've had enought "diplomacy through strength" with the current president...look where that's got us...

[pagopago]

Amen, and Rodham Clinton is starting to look like Bush and Cheney's little sister

[Shannon2008]

She's already started to change the image that the Bush administration created. *sarcasm*