AHMADINEJAD: ANTI-ISLAM FILM WAS 'ISRAELI-HATCHED PLOT'

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Breitbart.com:

Iran proudly paraded its military hardware in Tehran on Friday under the gaze of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used the event to again defiantly lash out at the West and Israel.

 

The display, involving thousands of military personnel, tanks and missiles borne on trucks, marked the anniversary of the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

 

Ahmadinejad, in a speech broadcast on state television, said that Iran was using "the same spirit and belief in itself" shown in that war to "stand and defend its rights" today against pressure from world powers.

 

Iran is locked in a showdown with the UN Security Council over its controversial nuclear programme.

 

The West, led by the United States, has tightened the vice on Iran by implementing crippling economic sanctions, while US ally Israel -- the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear weapons state -- has threatened air strikes on Iranian atomic facilities.