The obvious headline here is Ahmadenijad--yet again--talking about the imminent destruction of Israel. But there is another important statement in this article as well. See if you can pick it out. From the Jerusalem Post:
Thousands of Iranians held a protest rally in Teheran Friday against the blockade of the Gaza Strip, while Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel had "reached the end of the road."
The protested chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" as they demonstrated on streets leading to the Teheran University compound where the weekly Friday prayer service is held.
Also attending the rally, Ahmadinejad told reporters that the Israelis "have reached the end of the road and their abnormal behavior is due to anger and even their supporters are shaky in backing them.
"By committing these atrocities they want to pressure the Palestinians to influence their elections."
Ahmad Khatami, conducting the Friday prayers, slammed the "United Nations, Organization of Islamic Conference, Egypt, the Europeans and United States" for their inaction on Gaza.
"Why are the UN and OIC keeping silent? Where are the European nations who are the defenders of human rights?" Khatami said in his sermon, broadcast live on state-run radio and quoted by AFP.
"We can see the hands of (US George W.) Bush and (president-elect Barack) Obama in these crimes," he said.
Did you catch that last line? Khatami, a high-ranking Iranian cleric who is a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts and no doubt "plugged in," lumped the President-Elect right in with the hated George W. Bush. Perhaps this was a veiled message from the regime to Obama. Or perhaps it was just an unsubtle way of saying the Iranian regime, which has alternately praised and scolded Obama, simply sees the U.S. as the Great Satan, no matter who is in charge--and that it will not be dissuaded from its nuclear program, period. On that note, read this editorial from IBD.