Hezbollah supporters used mosque loudspeakers Thursday to rally crowds ahead of a trip by Iran's president to southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, a visit the U.S. and Israel have called intentionally provocative.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to a rapturous welcome organized by Hezbollah. His country is the main patron of the Shiite militant group, the most powerful military force in Lebanon.

On Thursday, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to make a trip to Lebanon's Shiite heartland in the south and the Israeli border, which will emphasize Iran's support for Hezbollah's fight with Israel.

Residents of southern Lebanese were heading to Bint Jbeil, a border village that was bombed during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, to greet the Iranian president Thursday afternoon.

The village, barely two and a half miles (four kilometers) from the border, is dubbed "the capital of resistance" because it was a center for Hezbollah guerrilla action against Israel during the Jewish state's 18-year occupation of the south, which ended in 2000.

Many students in the south skipped school Thursday to await Ahmadinejad.

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev slammed the trip Thursday, saying "Iran's domination of Lebanon through its proxy Hezbollah has destroyed any chance for peace, has turned Lebanon into an Iranian satellite and made Lebanon a hub for regional terror and instability."

Ahmadinejad's visit has underscored the eroding position of pro-Western factions in Lebanon. More broadly, it has suggested that the competition over influence in Lebanon may be tipping toward Iran and its ally Syria, away from the United States and it Arab allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

The Iranian president's arrival also exacerbated fears among many Lebanese — particularly Sunnis and Christians — that Iran and Hezbollah are seeking to impose their will on the country and possibly pull Lebanon into a conflict with Israel. Many say the trip could aggravate tensions in a country with a long history of sectarian strife.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/13/ahmadinejad-boosts-hezbollah-lebanon-visit/

This guy just loves to stir the pot. Israel is showing great restraint and personally I hope they bomb the hell out of Hezbullah while the Iranian President of hate is there.

have you ever noticed that everytime the fighting has been quiet someone has to mess it up

That's what happens when conservatives are in control.

What conservative is controlling this situation??

This President of Iran really likes to stir the pot and try to get people riled up. Just to think the CIA wetboy's could have handled him when he was here last month.

If a Conservitive were in the Whit House, Iran would have been dealt with after their sham elections when human rights violations were occuring, then when before they wen't nuclear. Also N. Korea wouldn't be F'ing with us.

You guy's realize when power officially transfers in N. Korea the new leader(in his 20's) is going to have to do something really big to make a name for himself.

And when he does (probably at the insitence of his Father), you can bet your slim paycheck that Oblowme will not only do nothing, but he'll most likely bow down to the boy and may even appologize to him for the USA's "arrogance"

Either way, Oblowme will once again show the world what he's made of....cowardice!!

He's a kook. But a dangerous one. Irrational. And working on the bomb.
And missiles for delivery. He's begging for it.

He is setting up another Axis of evil. Sor far Iran and Syria have signed on. Lebanon rejected the offer. Both Fox and CNN have reported this.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an ultra conservative. So is the Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian government. The only hope for the future is for another revolution in Iran that would install a more liberal, progressive government.

Conservative leaders in the middle east are the problem.

Conservative MUSLIM.

Obama had the chance to act on this when they were slaughtering their own people after their last Presidential elections. Iran could have gone to the people but chalk another one up to Obama's long list of screwups.

we are not worried aboout either country.. I wonder if u all remember that when Korea launched thier missiles the only one that failed was thier long range one that could make it here.

What else happened that day that hardly made the news at all?

Remember Russia had been pitching a fit about us putting missiles in Europe?

Well Russia decided to test a long range missile while Korea was in total secrecy.

Guess what it dissappeared and even days later Russia could not find thier own missile. I wonder what happened and the we are worried about these countries.. we use them to keep us riled up

here this article is a lie .. covering up the original facts which are still hard to fine.. but they did the test on july4th 2009 while the world was watching Korea and at least 1st reports for a couple days Russia said they had lost it and were not sure where it went. another long range missile failing that could hit us.. just luck u think?

http://www.intellsecuworld.com/2009/07/failed-test-to-delay-russias-newest.html



July 17, 2009

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The introduction of Russia's newest nuclear missile may be delayed by at least six months after a failed test launch this week, Interfax news agency has quoted an arms industry source as saying.

Last month Russia's deputy defense minister in charge of weapons, Vladimir Popovkin, said that Russia expected to commission the much-delayed Bulava strategic missile this year once testing was completed.

But on July 15 a Bulava missile self-destructed after a malfunction during the first stage of its flight from the White Sea in the northwest of the country.

"In the best-case scenario, the next test-flight of the Bulava will take place in five or six months, meaning that the time frame for introducing this missile will be postponed by at least half a year," Interfax quoted an arms industry source close to a commission investigating the accident as saying.

The submarine-launched Bulava (Mace), which is capable of carrying up to 10 warheads for up to 8,000 kilometers, now has a history of six unsuccessful launches and just five successful ones.

An intercontinental ballistic missile, the Bulava is designed to be deployed on Russia's newest Project 955 nuclear submarines of the Borei (Arctic Wind) class being built at Sevmass shipbuilder in northern Russia.

Russia's war with neighboring Georgia last August exposed a Soviet-style army with obsolete equipment, prompting the government to embark on an ambitious program to modernize its military, analysts have said.

The country relies heavily on its still-formidable nuclear triad of ground-based, submarine-launched, and bomber-carried missiles.

Amedinijhad is a Conservative?? put down the Kool Aid!!

He sure as hell is a conservative.


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Iranian presidential elections in June 2005 brought a surprise victory to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and an end to an uncertain era of reform in the Islamic theocracy. Ahmadinejad, the conservative mayor of Tehran, won 62 percent of the vote in a run-off election with the favored candidate and a former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

"This is the beginning of a new movement," Ahmadinejad said after casting his vote.

Ahmadinejad was a little-known politician until Tehran's conservative city council appointed him mayor in 2003. In office, he gained a reputation for rolling back reforms enacted by moderate and reformist officials, moving to close fast-food restaurants, instituting separate elevators for men and women in municipal offices, and requiring male city employees to have beards and wear long sleeves.

During his presidential campaign, Ahmadinejad was backed by powerful conservatives and second-generation revolutionaries known as the Abadgaran, or Developers, who have a strong influence in the Iranian parliament. Ahmadinejad also is widely believed to have the unspoken endorsement of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini Khamenei.

Ahmadinejad took office Aug. 6, 2005, replacing reformist Mohammad Khatami who was elected by an overwhelming majority in 1997 and 2001, but whose power to follow through with reforms was severely checked by the supreme leader and the Guardian Council.

this axis has existed for quite some time now.

Yea, but now it's "official".

Well, if thats your idea of Conservative, you can keep it!!

Israel missed their chance. Obama is really screwing things up and making a mess thats gonna take 20+ years to fix.