Iran rasende på Saudi og Tyrkia

Saudi-Arabia og Tyr­kia har nek­tet Iran å bruke deres luft­rom for å fly nød­for­sy­nin­ger til Liba­non. Iran er rasende.

Nye tegn på split­tel­sen mel­lom shia og “mode­rat” sunni.

Tur­key and Saudi Ara­bia have stop­ped Iran using their air space to send huma­ni­ta­rian relief to Leba­non, media in Iran have said.
Iran’s health mini­s­try has been col­lecting sup­plies to send to the Lebanese people, the reports said.

But the goods had to be sent via Dubai to Syria because of objec­tions by other countries in the region.

This may fuel Ira­nian anger against nations they feel have not done enough to sup­port Hez­bol­lah against Israel.

‘Pas­si­vity’

Iran’s Labour news agency quo­tes the head of the country’s emer­gency ser­vices as com­pla­i­ning that Tur­kish offi­ci­als pre­vented Iran from using their air space for huma­ni­ta­rian aid destined for Leba­non.
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Anot­her news agency quo­tes the security chief of Iran’s health mini­s­try as say­ing both Tur­key and Saudi Ara­bia had pre­vented Iran from using their air space for three plane-loads of medicine.

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Iran has alre­ady com­plai­ned bit­terly about Arab countries like Saudi Ara­bia, Jor­dan and the Gulf sta­tes which it says have cau­sed divi­sions in the Mus­lim world and fai­led to do enough to sup­port Hezbollah.

Daily news­pa­per edi­to­ri­als bemoan what they call the pas­si­vity of Arab leaders.

The speaker of the Ira­nian par­lia­ment recently cal­led on Arab people in those countries to rise up against their govern­ments. (bbc)

Det er ikke bare Ahma­dine­jad som utta­ler seg eks­tremt om Israel.

Aya­tol­lah Ali Kha­menei, Iran’s spi­ri­tual lea­der and the country’s most power­ful figure, said in a speech on Sun­day that Israeli stri­kes in Leba­non and the Pale­sti­nian ter­ri­to­ries proved how “the pre­sence of Zio­nists in the region is a sata­nic and can­ce­rous pre­sence and an infected tumor for the entire world of Islam.”

As Pre­si­dent Bush and other world lea­ders strugg­led at a sum­mit meeting in St. Peters­burg, Rus­sia, to devise a plan to stop Hez­bol­lah, Aya­tol­lah Kha­menei pre­dicted it would fail. “The Ame­ri­can pre­si­dent says Hez­bol­lah should be dis­ar­med,” he said in remarks car­ried on tele­vi­sion, “but it will not happen.”

Even Iran’s for­mer pre­si­dent, Mohammad Khatami, who used his eight-year pre­si­dency to try to mode­rate Iran’s for­eign policy, like­ned Hez­bol­lah to “a shi­ning sun that illu­mi­na­tes and warms the hearts of all Mus­lims and sup­por­ters of free­dom in the world.”

In a let­ter to Sheik Has­san Nas­ral­lah, the Hez­bol­lah lea­der, on Sun­day, Mr. Khatami, who heads the Insti­tute for Dia­lo­gue among Civi­liza­tions and Cul­tu­res here, cal­led the “Zio­nists’ shock­ing atrocities in Pale­stine and Leba­non” a sign of “their vio­lent nature.”