TEHRAN -- (AFP) -- Iran President Ahmadinejad said today that his nation
will "kidnap anyone we please" and claimed that no power on earth can stop
it.
The remarks came during a tumultuous news conference in Tehran Thursday
that was marked by a brief scuffle breaking out among several foreign
journalists.
"Iran will kidnap and detain anyone we please and there's nothing on this
planet that can stop this from happening," Ahmadinejad told reporters. "If
God wants to stop us, then we will be stopped, but the United States or
anyone else are not powerful enough."
The remark was considered "arrogant and ill tempered" by some political
observers who said that it will only inflame tensions already running high
between the United States, Britain, Israel and Gulf allies, Iran and
Syria.
Syria's Damascus-based semi-official radio station applauded Ahmadinejad's
tough challenge, saying that "the West is going to finally get what it
deserves for meddling and duplicity" in the Persian Gulf states.
"They will taste the bitter fruit they have sowed and want to spit it
out," a radio commentator said, "but they will instead choke on it and
die."
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