NY Times Edits Ayatollah Khamenei’s Speech, Omits Portion Calling Israel a “Cancerous Tumor” And Vowing To “Cut It Off”…
The WaPo reported it:
TEHRAN — A fiery anti-Israel speech by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered shortly after a successful Iranian satellite launch, added to growing global tensions Friday, as Israel warned that it might mount a preemptive strike against the Islamic republic’s nuclear facilities despite U.S. objections.
“From now onward, we will support and help any nations, any groups fighting against the Zionist regime across the world, and we are not afraid of declaring this,” Khamenei said during a rare Friday prayer lecture at Tehran University.
“The Zionist regime is a true cancer tumor on this region that should be cut off,” the supreme leader said. “And it definitely will be cut off.
So did the AP:
Iran will help any nation or group that confronts the “cancer” Israel, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday.
He also said in remarks delivered to worshippers at prayers in Tehran and broadcast on state TV that the country would continue its controversial nuclear program, and warned that any military strike by the U.S. would only make Iran stronger.
He said Israel is a “cancerous tumor that should be cut and will be cut.”
Along with a host of other MSM news outlets.
And here’s the NY Times report:
In Tehran, the speech by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made during Friday Prayer and broadcast live to the nation, came amid deepening American concern about a possible military strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites by Israel, whose leaders delivered blunt new warnings on Thursday about what they called the need to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran a threat to its existence
The ayatollah also issued an unusually blunt warning that Iran would support militant groups opposing Israel, an action that some analysts said could be held up by Israel as a casus belli.
Reinforcing the concern, ABC News reported on Friday that Israeli consular officials were warning of possible attacks on Israeli government sites abroad and synagogues and Jewish schools. ABC quoted an internal Israeli document as saying, “We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase.”
Without being specific, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Iran “had its own tools” to respond to threats of war and would use them “if necessary,” the Mehr news agency reported.
Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the sanctions as “painful and crippling,” according to Iranian news agencies, acknowledging the effect of recent measures aimed at cutting off Iran’s Central Bank from the international financial system. But he also said the sanctions would ultimately benefit his country. “They will make us more self-reliant,” he said, according to a translation by Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency.
HT: Weekly Standard
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Posted by ZIP on Sunday, February 5, 2012, at 11:13 pm | 
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What a surprise!
It’s almost like the MSM doesn’t want to tell us what these lunatics are actually saying, or something…
We haven’t had an unbiased news service for 40 years, but it’s never been this bad. I’m not asking for a right wing media – just tell the whole truth, and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
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On the other hand, the NYT may have had every right to edit Khamenei’s speech – they probably wrote it. Die, NYT, die.
Next they’ll say Khamenei is just some crazy guy with a long beard and he showers a lot and hence always has a towel on his head to dry his hair, and has no religious inklings whatsoever.
Well, if the Ayatollah was REALLY serious the NYT would SURELY have reported it. Thank heaven for the keen & discerning intellects at the NYT otherwise we might start to think this Ayatollah guy is serious about killing all the Jews.
The NYT is nothing more than a failing leftist ‘pink rag’, a newspaper bieng kept afloat be loans from bollionaires.
Must regurgitate truth as pablum for the enlightened to protect sensitivities. Must regurgitate truth as pablum for the enlightened to protect sensitivities. Must regurgitate truth as pablum for the enlightened to protect sensitivities.
The original world war .. truth vs. deception / al taqiyya
The NY Times has much to gain by keeping their sheep in the dark. That and they are scared to death of CAIR.
The saddest part of all this is that the Slimes is a paper owned by Jews. Then again, said “Jews”, like all other communists, only answer to the hammer and sickle.
So, one day this guy is really going to do what he says, and leaders the world over will say “Gosh, I never thought he actually meant it!”
If we have learned nothing from the massive carnage that was WWII, it is that we should take what the leader of a country says seriously. The longer we leave such tyrants alone, they worse they get. The NYT, through selective reporting chose to ignore this.
There will be a special place in hell for these people.
No surprise for this old bird You cant trusta thing from the NEW YORK SLIMES and ALL THE SLUDGE THATS FIT TO PRINT
who in there right mine reads the rag new york slime ?
What do you expect from state run media… Losers all of them are losers…
Doesn’t fit the SCOAMF’s narrative, eh?
I told you this was going to happen
This information does not fit their narrative.
Da JOOOOOZ BAD, Islam Good.
passé
All party sponsored newspapers censor articles for the good of the people.
The Times lost all credibility when Walter Duranty lied about the “Holodomor” Stalins great deliberate famine in Ukraine. They still display the Pulitzer Prize he won for his lies.
Ten million dead Ukrainians did not matter much to the Sulzberger family it sems.
Yeah, but Khomeini is going to be angry also. I believe they’ve agreed to run his press releases untouched.
Come on, I’m sure it was something lost in translation. How many Farsi speakers do you think the bankrupt NYT can afford?
/s
The new news is NOT reporting the whole news. These so called reporters, omit any part of the story that does not fit their agenda. Thank heaven for the internets, FOX, at times and talk radio.
Considering the constant flow of news about how fucked up Islam is, the only conclusion that I can draw is that the NY Times WANTS the USA to become a Muslim country.
There is no peaceful solution possible. Those who believe that we are NOT headed for war, are deluded and brainwashed.
An all out War with Islam is not only inevitable, it has already begun.
I blame this on all those Catholics who run and work at the NYT.
From the NYT Style Guide:
Overt death threat = unusually blunt warning.
Whats really sickening, is this “paper” is based in the very same city where attacks on sept 11th 2001 occured, killing thousands of innocent American civilians….. by muslims.
IF ANY newspaper in this country should be going after radical islam, youd THINK it would be these idiots.
Calm down komrades, the official newspaper of the State has carefully examined the content of this speech and has allowed us to read the portions that they have deemed worthy of public consumption by the workers. All other content has been found too incendiary and would only serve to distract you from your obligation to keep Dear Leader and his flanks covered. .
I wouldn’t wrap my fish in The New York Times
“amid deepening American concern about a possible military strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites by Israel”
Who is concerned ?
It appears that all of these media outlets have omitted the Ayatollah’s call for worldwide genocide of the Jews:
Ayatollah Khomeini stated that the “opportunity must not be lost to remove this corrupting material. It is a ‘jurisprudential justification’ to kill all the Jews and annihilate Israel, and in that, the Islamic government of Iran must take the helm.”
New York has a canserous tumor called the NEW YORK SLIMES
Is this a surprise?
NYT is the ultimate Democratic machine.
Always bias against Republicans of all races and colors.
PC in NYT = Treason against America.
I wouldn’t use the NYT to line a bird cage.
Why would anyone BUY a propaganda newspaper?
Oh, yea, libTARDS are MORONS.
This looks like Zip-original analysis! It should earn you a mention somewhere, Zip.
Yeah Christy W the bird would pribibly attack you for doing so
Hi, I may send you (those who are thirsty for the truth) the original speech with its English translation, if you desire….
My E-mail address: FS_pazan@yahoo.com