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    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was unhurt today after an explosive device, officially described as a firecracker, went off near his motorcade.

    Mr Ahmadinejad was on his way to a sports arena to make a speech in Hamadan, south of the capital, when the explosion occurred.

    Conservative website Khabaronline, the first source to report the incident initially said a hand grenade was thrown at his motorcade but later in the day dropped "grenade" in its report and used the word "firecracker" instead.

    "This morning a hand grenade exploded next to a vehicle carrying reporters accompanying the president" the website, close to parliament speaker Ali Larijani, said first.

    "Ahmadinejad's car was 100 metres away and he was not hurt," it said, adding that the alleged attacker was detained.

    Iran's Mehr news agency quoting witnesses as saying a "hand-made noise bomb exploded a far distance from the president's car."

    "Nobody was hurt and several people have been arrested," the agency said.

    Mr Ahmadinejad later delivered his speech and made no reference to the incident.

    An official in the president's media office told AFP the explosion was from a "firecracker."

    The ISNA and ILNA news agencies also said the blast was caused by a "firecracker," while Fars news agency said a "hand-made grenade" had been thrown at the motorcade.

    "After the president's motorcade passed someone threw a hand-made grenade at the vehicles behind it," Fars said.

    The agency used the Farsi word "narenjak," which means both a hand grenade of the military sort and a noisy home-made firecracker, the size of a tennis ball, that Iranians set off at festive events such as the New Year fire festival.

    "Security agents arrested the person who threw it," Fars said, adding that the incident had "irritated" well-wishers, but not saying if anyone had been hurt.

    The incident came only two days after Mr Ahmadinejad repeated his claim that Iran's enemy Israel wants him dead.

    "Stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me," Mr Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech to expatriate Iranians on Monday.

    Today, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman also insisted that the hardliner is on Israel's hit list.

    "It is quite evident that the Zionist forces are under state orders to assassinate different figures in the Islamic world," Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters.

    "They may dare in their mind to assassinate Islamic world figures as soon as they have access to them and one of the greatest enemies of this regime is Dr Ahmadinejad."

    The animosity between Iran and Israel has steadily worsened under the presidency of Mr Ahmadinejad who has infuriated the world powers by dismissing the Holocaust as a "myth."

    Israel too has never ruled out a military strike against Iran to stop its nuclear programme. On its part, Iran does not acknowledge Israel.

    * AFP
    Iran denies reports Ahmadinejad attacked after explosion - The National Newspaper

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    lol, who in their right mind will even attempt to throw grenade at the possibly armored car, 100meters away. either idiot, or it was set up by ajad ppl themselves to blame someone else.
    I'm pretty sure it is not only Israel that wants him dead.
    "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" B. Franklin

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    • #3
      Surprisingly the West wasnt blamed for this, probably because if in fact the West had anything to do with it Dinnerjacket would have been a grease spot.

      Must have been one of his millions of adoring Iranian fans.:))
      Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post
        Surprisingly the West wasnt blamed for this, probably because if in fact the West had anything to do with it Dinnerjacket would have been a grease spot.
        "Stupid Zionists have hired mercenaries to assassinate me," Mr Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech to expatriate Iranians on Monday.
        @Dread: I'd call that pretty much blaming Israel and the West.

        @Dinnerjacket: If we really wanted you dead and were making a go at it, you'd be dead. Trust us on this one...
        Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

        Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by bigross86 View Post
          @Dread: I'd call that pretty much blaming Israel and the West.

          @Dinnerjacket: If we really wanted you dead and were making a go at it, you'd be dead. Trust us on this one...
          *Hmm, missed that part that Ross, Thanks. It just proves the point the man has an endless bag of excuses to turn attention away from himself and his countries failing policy and diplomacy.

          @Dinnerjacket: If we really wanted you dead and were making a go at it, you'd be dead. Trust us on this one...[/QUOTE]

          Priceless!:))

          But IMO, his own people will do it when they have had enough of the controlling rhetoric, lies and terror. Obviously they havent tired of this moraless windbag yet but the future does indeed look promising going by the article.:)
          Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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          • #6
            I wonder if it would be more convenient to remove the Grand Ayatollah's son from the picture? It would take away a lot of Khamenei's rationale for propping up Dinnerjack and the Guards if he didn't have the son he was grooming for succession.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dreadnought View Post
              Surprisingly the West wasnt blamed for this, probably because if in fact the West had anything to do with it Dinnerjacket would have been a grease spot.

              Must have been one of his millions of adoring Iranian fans.:))
              Thugs of the regime have reached this conclusion that even their own fan boys don't buy CIA, Mossad and MI6 conspiracy theories any more.

              And every one knows that above 3 will not do anything so sloppy. So West and Israel are off the hook this time. Soon they will find a sleeper cell, arrest around 20 people and then hang them all from a single scaffolding.;)

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              • #8
                Originally posted by omon View Post
                lol, who in their right mind will even attempt to throw grenade at the possibly armored car, 100meters away. either idiot, or it was set up by ajad ppl themselves to blame someone else.
                I'm pretty sure it is not only Israel that wants him dead.
                He does not ride in an armored vehicle. His presidential motorcade is a beat up Nissan frontier with a desparate need of a visit to a body shop.





                I know above pic. is photoshopped but it looks good.

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                • #9
                  Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                  • #10
                    A Nissan "armored" with 15 unshaven men. Textbook close protection.

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