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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a news conference with his Greek counterpart Petros Molyviatis in Athens Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Lavrov begins a two-day visit to Athens, where he will hold talks with Greek officials on energy cooperation and Iran’s nuclear program, Greece’s Foreign Ministry said.

ASSociated Press: Russia Warns Against Conflict With Iran

Russia’s foreign minister warned against threatening Iran over its nuclear program Monday after Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld reportedly agreed with a German interviewer that all options, including military response, remained on the table.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called for talks to continue with Tehran, which was reported to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“I think that at the current stage, it is important not to make guesses about what will happen and even more important not to make threats,” Lavrov said during a visit to Athens, Greece.

Rumsfeld, in an interview with the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt, was asked if all options, including the military one, were on the table with Iran.

“That’s right,” Rumsfeld responded, according to Handelsblatt’s print edition Monday.

Lavrov said the use of force would be possible only if the United Nations consented.

The United Nations will NEVER authorize force against Iran for their nuclear program. So, who is Lavrov kidding?

Economic sanctions even if imposed by the United Nations Security Council will be by and large ineffective with a retaliatory response by Iran that will destabilize the world oil markets.

The United States and Israel WILL CONDUCT their foreign policies without Russia butting in – thank you!

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Pakistani protesters burn a Danish flag to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in European papers , Monday, Feb. 6, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan opposed violent protests against newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Monday as local journalists demonstrated against the drawings that have inflamed the Muslim world.

Reuters: New protests erupt in cartoon row

Fresh protests erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Monday, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm and urged restraint but oil giant Iran, which is reviewing trade ties with countries that published the cartoons, vowed to respond to “an anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current.”

In Iran:

Iranian woman shouts slogans, as she holds photos of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a rally to protest against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers, in Tehran.

In India:

Protesting students of Jamia Milia Islamia University burn a symbolic flag of Denmark in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Monday at hundreds of protesting students in the Indian capital, while a strike called by Islamic groups shut down the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Both groups were protesting the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers.

In Afghanistan:

Afghan policeman guards as Afghan protesters march during a demonstration against the cartoons depicting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, in Kandahar , Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Clashes in Afghanistan left one person dead and four others injured, and police fired warning shots to protect a U.S. consulate in Indonesia as protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad roiled across Asia on Monday.

Afghan Police Fire On Stone-Throwing Cartoon Protesters

Afghan protesters shout slogans as they burn a Danish flag outside their embassy during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006.

In Indonesia:

ndonesian Muslim protesters burn a Danish flag during a demonstration in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Muslims rallied in several cities in the world’s most populous Muslim country Monday to show anger over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers. Writings on the posters say ‘Put Danish Prime Minister on international tribunal.’

Indonesian men try to pry the U.S. seal from the gate of the U.S. consulate in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Police fired warning shots to protect the consulate as protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad roiled across Asia on Monday.

CNN: Asian Muslims protest cartoons

In New Zealand:

Muslims protest in Auckland against the publication of cartoons that mock the Prophet Muhammad.

The Age: Cartoon rage spreads to New Zealand

Michelle Malkin has “WITH OUR BLOOD WE WILL REDEEM OUR PROPHET”

Moderate Moslem groups and Western leaders condemned the weekend violence and calls to arms and called for calm. (Barcepundit parses the plea from Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.)

Jim Hoft has more on the casualty count. BBC reports 4 dead.

Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq has a must-read manifesto published in Der Spiegel over the weekend.

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at The Counterterrorism Blog has similar thoughts and puts the Danish cartoon controversy in context.

Victor Davis Hanson has an exclusive piece over at the indispensable Real Clear Politics: “A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?”

This is a wake-up call for the Western World on the fanaticism of fundamental Islam.

Christians and Jews have been blasphemed on a daily, weekly, monthly basis for centuries and more vilification than these ianane and childish cartoons.

As Flap has said before ……these folks need to get over it.

By the way, don’t these protesters have jobs or better things to do than burning Danish flags?

The cartoons:

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