TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West, but in a speech Sunday he went a step further using a deeply offensive insult in response to U.S. statements that the military option against Iran is still on the table.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," he said using language in Iran reserved for hated enemies.

Several top U.S. officials including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have said in recent months that the military option remains on the table and there is a plan to attack Iran, although a military strike has been described as a bad idea.

The crowd of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd just west of the capital chuckled at the president's insult and applauded.

The speech was broadcast by both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but the latter glossed over the insult in the simultaneous translation.

Ahmadinejad's remarks come in sharp contrast to ones he made to Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel in August in which he offered the U.S. Iran's friendship.

In Sunday's speech, Ahmadinejad also questioned once more who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. and said they gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the region and plunder its oil wealth.

During his speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said a majority of people in the U.S. and around the world believe the American government staged the attacks, drawing a strong rebuke from President Barack Obama.

Ahmadinejad often resorts to provocative statements to lash out enemies. He has already compared the power of Iran's enemies to a "mosquito," saying Iran deals with the West over its nuclear activities from a position of power and he has likened the United States to a "farm animal trapped in a quagmire" in Afghanistan.

Iran also condemned the latest U.S. sanctions slapped on eight Iranian officials Wednesday, saying they show American interference in Tehran's domestic affairs.

Washington this week imposed travel and financial sanctions on the eight Iranians, accusing them of taking part in human rights abuses during the turmoil following Iran's June 2009 presidential election.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/03/ahmadinejad-calls-leaders-buried/?test=latestnews

The CIA should have dealt with this jerk when he was in the US last month. It just goes to show people what kinda coward we have ruining this country.

I am so sick of this rhetoric urging war with Iran, and it's no wonder that POX is ringing the bell first.

Iran would need the help of Korea to obtain a missle...egads, the whole concept is absurd when you consider our technologies and abilities to intercept missles and also the lack of motive for Iran to throw a rock at a tank. We are the ones in range yo!

Politically POX is just parroting the GOP's talking points, probably a Rove gig, all in an effort to give president Barack Hussein Obama another war or trying to make him look weak for not invading Iran...screw that, I think Americans will not be fooled again...you'd hope.

Interesting:

Recently the MIC was tossed out of Afghanistan...they now need another job..like in Iran. I also wonder how much power the MIC really have with their GOP reps they own or if they have something pointed at the WH...these people want wars...it's what they do.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/04/3028381.htm

Ummmm, you ralize that we have intercepted weapons shipments from N. Korea destined for Iran right?

I wasn't calling for war with Iran in this threa, just a simple assasination of a man made of pure evil.

Ummmmm, yeah 12 Scud missles..LOL. You constantly quote POX sourses/spin doctoring to convey a message of lies and deceptions. I think someone's being disingenuous here.

War is peace.

First of all you lose all credibility when you butcher a name and second of all we have intercepted multiple shipments and it has been reported on all the major networks.

Third, Fox News has been polled time and time again as the most trusted and highest rated news outlet. So keep with up your delusions as you are only fooling yourself.

Fox is the king of disingenuous, and in our culture disingenuous sales.....kind of like sex


people may even be addicted to it,,lol

And what makes you think Korea and Iran or any other Islamic country have not had meetings in banding together clandestine meetings are not out of the realm of things in government.........and its distractions of nuclear missile launches towards the US looking at its strika capabilities and knowledge sharing........my grandmother is from S. Korea.......this is my theory N. Korea shoots of its missilies in order to turn the US head the other way while sneaking in the backdoor with technilogical information and plans towards war with the nuclear knowledge and building elsewhere.........then we have China that is more interested in advancement towards technology but I do not believe they are hostile in that direction nor do they want war over profitability.......but they do have N. Korea in their pocket and it may be the dictatorships banding together finacially and technilogically to take out the rest of the free world's protector........The US is debt finacially ruined with governmental infiltration already instittuted........what do you think is going on?

North Korea is an Islamic country....well okay then.

True gibberish...

they're liberals... they want to hold hands and sing cum-by-yah..then everything will be alright...

i guess you read something different than what i read... it does not say anything about NK being muslim...

They tried that when Clinton was President and we got hit left an right by AQ.

"And what makes you think Korea and Iran or any other Islamic country "

But as I pointed out all that was just gibberish anyway...and I am sure you'd have come to the defense of a black guy posting here too huh? Riiiiight.

69.97% would vote to re-elect Ahmadinejad!!

"And what makes you think Korea and (Iran or any other Islamic country) "

now read it I was not calling N. Korea an islamic country I know N. Korea is an asian country hell I'm part Korean = Asian......duh

what does race have to do with anything?

Well, Afganistan and members of NATO just intercepted 22 tons of explosives meant for terrorists. We now have cause to put Iran in it's place, to bad we have a Coawrd in Chief.

did the explosives come from the Iranian government or just inside of Iran? is that an issue for the afghanian officals and not american?

I doubt anyone inside Iran can come up with 22 toms of explosives, especially when they get executed for just protesting.