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Collossians 2:3
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Posted by: Shawn on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 04:37 PM
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U.S. does not call for Iran's expulsion from the U.N, please pray
WASHINGTON -- The United States declined Thursday to support Israel's call for expelling Iran from the United Nations for advocating Israel's destruction.
"Iran is a member of the United Nations," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "What I think we would encourage instead is Iran to start behaving in a responsible manner as a member of the international community."
McCormack said Iran should stop seeking development of nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian program, end support of terrorism, and stop oppressing its own people.
"Our concern is with Iran's having the know-how, the technology and the capability to enrich or reprocess on its territory," he said.
While other nations express shock and disapproval of the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map," Israel's call for expulsion from the United Nations did not draw support.
In a speech Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced Israel and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks "will wipe this stigma from the face of the Islamic world." Citing the words of the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad said: "Israel must be wiped off the map."
McCormack said he did not think the Bush administration had been in touch with Tehran about the statement. There have been no formal diplomatic relations since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
But McCormack said "our posts around the world should make it very clear where we stand on this kind of rhetoric coming out of Iran and from the head of state."
At the same time, he said State Department officials had not lost hope for "the Iranian people and their aspiration for a more free, democratic state."
"Those aspirations have not been realized," MCormack said. "As we have seen, the selected few stand in the way of those aspirations."
On Capitol Hill, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., called on the UNited Nations and all civilized nations to take "appropriate action" in the United Nations and individually denouncing "this outrageous statement."
"There is no room for the president of a nation to call for the destruction of a member state," Lantos said. He likened the Iranian leader to Adolf Hitler in trying to destroy the Jewish people while "pseudo-sophisticates said it was merely oratory."
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U.S. does not call for Iran's expulsion from the U.N, please pray
WASHINGTON -- The United States declined Thursday to support Israel's call for expelling Iran from the United Nations for advocating Israel's destruction.
"Iran is a member of the United Nations," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "What I think we would encourage instead is Iran to start behaving in a responsible manner as a member of the international community."
McCormack said Iran should stop seeking development of nuclear weapons under the cover of a civilian program, end support of terrorism, and stop oppressing its own people.
"Our concern is with Iran's having the know-how, the technology and the capability to enrich or reprocess on its territory," he said.
While other nations express shock and disapproval of the Iranian president's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map," Israel's call for expulsion from the United Nations did not draw support.
In a speech Wednesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denounced Israel and said a new wave of Palestinian attacks "will wipe this stigma from the face of the Islamic world." Citing the words of the founder of Iran's Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ahmadinejad said: "Israel must be wiped off the map."
McCormack said he did not think the Bush administration had been in touch with Tehran about the statement. There have been no formal diplomatic relations since the Iranian revolution of 1979.
But McCormack said "our posts around the world should make it very clear where we stand on this kind of rhetoric coming out of Iran and from the head of state."
At the same time, he said State Department officials had not lost hope for "the Iranian people and their aspiration for a more free, democratic state."
"Those aspirations have not been realized," MCormack said. "As we have seen, the selected few stand in the way of those aspirations."
On Capitol Hill, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., called on the UNited Nations and all civilized nations to take "appropriate action" in the United Nations and individually denouncing "this outrageous statement."
"There is no room for the president of a nation to call for the destruction of a member state," Lantos said. He likened the Iranian leader to Adolf Hitler in trying to destroy the Jewish people while "pseudo-sophisticates said it was merely oratory."
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